Futhark - new font specimen

▷ © Florian K., since 2013/2017

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This was a font design experiment in which I created a runic font optimized for the use in long passages. All runes were given a consistent and smooth design to avoid the introduction of holes or irregularities in texts. After looking back at it I can say that the experiment was quite successful and the font creates a uniquely homogenous texture unlike any other runic fonts I've studied.

You can find some Fuþark fonts on the web, but I wasn't satisfied with their typographic quality. Most of them are very irregular, unproportional or simply without grace.

I tried to unify the runes to give them a clean, modern and very light appearance with narrow proportions. My interpretation of the Fuþark shows a more harmonic and "svelte" image and a clean text structure that is ornamental at the same time.

This version might not be historically correct, but it wasn't my intention to "reproduce" the runes — I wanted to create a modern, harmonic variation of them.

I included different shapes of every rune of the Elder Fuþark and most runes of the newer rows (95 runes in total).
The font also includes the 3 ættir in encoded form that can display numbers.



SPECIFICATIONS

• includes 100 symbols (95 runes and alternatives)
• includes runes of the Elder Fuþark + their variations
• includes runes of the Younger Fuþark + their variations
• includes the 3 numeric ættir
• Regular + Bold cut
• years of creation: 2012 to 2013

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► Old font specimen

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