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Runes have been used in one form or another from the 1st to the 19th century. (The majority of Runic inscriptions were made in the 11th century.) Inscriptions in various languages have been found throughout Europe including Scandinavia and the British Isles. Vikings spread Runic writing to Greenland and Iceland.
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ALPHABETUM Unicode
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(ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf) Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages. PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos. Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin) |
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Chrysanthi Unicode (Chryſanþi Unicode)
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(chrysuni.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download from EveryWitchWay's Chrysanthi Unicode page. Stats: Version 3.1 has 4,383 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Runic, Vietnamese |
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Code2000
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(code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai |
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Everson Mono Unicode
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(evermono.ttf) Source: Shareware from Everson Mono. Stats: Version 4.1.3 2003-02-13 has 4,899 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Vietnamese |
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Free Mono / Free Monospaced
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(FreeMono.ttf, FreeMonoBold.ttf, FreeMonoOblique.ttf, and FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.23 has 2,577 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Runic, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Hebrew, Latin |
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Hnias
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(Hnias.ttf) Source: Free download from Lars Törnqvist. Stats: Version 3.003 2004 has 93 glyphs and 7 kerning pairs Support: Runic |
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Junicode
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(Junicode-Regular.ttf, Junicode-Bold.ttf, Junicode-Italic.ttf, and Junicode-BoldItalic.ttf) Source: Free download from the University of Virginia. Stats: Version 0.6.3 has 1,435 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Latin, Private Use Area (Medieval Latin), Runic OpenType Layout Tables: default, Latin |
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Junicode (bold)
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(Junicode-Bold.ttf) Source: Free download from the University of Virginia. Stats: Version 0.6.3 has 604 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Latin, Private Use Area (Medieval Latin), Runic (Runes are not bold but some have alternate shapes) OpenType Layout Tables: Latin |
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LeedsUni
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(leedsuni.ttf) Source: Free download from Alec McAllister's home page. Stats: Version 001.000 has 2,343 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin (including many extended/additional letters and diacritics), Runic, Vietnamese, Private Use Area (Medieval Latin) |
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TITUS Cyberbit Basic
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(tituscbz.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download (after submitting a form) from TITUS. Stats: Version 3.0 (2000) has 9,779 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Thaana, Vietnamese |
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This page was last updated on 2006-01-21