Futhark Runes Font

This is a font I created for the Futhark Rune alphabet. I tried to find one for the longest time and couldn't.

It's as close to accurate as I could get it. If you type R you're going to get the elder futhark character for R.

There are still a few things that couldn't be accomplished perfectly.

For example, if you want a th (þ) you need to type v. There is a t and an h in Elder Futhark, but there is also a character for th (þ). There is not a character for v, so I figured it was a good compromise.

Also C, K, and Q all use the same character (which is for K). I considered making C the same as S, since a C can sound like an S or a K in english depending on how it's used (It is a rather redundant letter) but went with K for the safe side. In general, just know that you probably don't need to write out a C for any reason with this font. It's a redundant character.


For more details on Elder Futhark, go here: [link]


The numbers are the Pentadic Rune Numerals. It was the system used in Scandinavia, usually in conjunction to runes. I went with it over the Roman Numerals because it seemed to fit better with the theme.

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Edit - So a few people have pointed out a couple errors - which doesn't surprise me at all since I'm most definitely not an expert on runes, and was muddling my way through this with a few sites for references (a couple of which were slightly contradictory). I hope to go back and make a few changes at some point soon. I certainly never expected this to get near this much attention, so I didn't think it mattered too awful much if I made a mistake or two.

Anyway, thanks loads for the interest.