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VIKING is a false-historical font evolving from Elder Futhark Runes. This runic typeface is based upon the ancient Germanic symbols later adapted by the Goths, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, The Third Reich, and within Fantasy genera, depicted as Dwarven Runes. ELDER VIKING is almost an exact interpretation of Elder Futhark plus a few extra characters corresponding as a best fit to the basic 26 upper-case Latin characters. MIDDLE VIKING is the second generation evolution Rune based upon Elder Futhark. Designed as a semi-cryptic, visually interesting type but intended to be almost-readable as a Latin equivalent (unlike ELDER VIKING), MIDDLE VIKING contains numeric runes and basic punctuation. YOUNGER VIKING is the third generation rune type which is a fully modern interpretation of Elder Futhark. YOUNGER VIKING, a.k.a. "SPACE VIKING" contains all upper and lower-case fonts as well as numbers and various punctuation.
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99 characters, 13 downloads
Created:
Sun, 17th August, 12:15 PM 2008
Last Edit:
Sat, 4th February, 12:30 AM 2012
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http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/90544
Tags:
Elder, Futhark, Runes, Runic, Gothic, Norse, Ancient, Middle, Younger, Viking, German, Germanic, Anglosaxons, Dwarven, Fantasy, Space, Retro, Futurism, Doom, Punk, Sans Serif, Sansserif, Blackletter, Deco, Font, Matthew, Flansburg, Design, Fontstruct
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Abneurone Fluid Types
Abneurone Fluid Types Sat, 4th February, 2012

Excellent tryptic of fonts with a beautiful sense of balance.

Frodo7
Frodo7 Wed, 8th February, 2012

Thank you for the short historical background of Viking runes. It was so interesting, I've spent two hours reading about ancient Viking culture.

Your work, a Latin adaptation apparently, is nice, but feels a bit sterile. It doesn't have the robustness, or the distressed antique look one might expect. But it's a good starting point. 10/10

flansburg_design
flansburg_design Wed, 8th February, 2012

I appreciate the comments so far. I would stress that this is a make-believe historical font that culminates into "Space Viking". I envisioned a Retro-Futuristic world where the Vikings rose to world domination and now are raiding other planet systems for glory, gold and the promise of dining in Valhalla after a glorious death on the battlefield (where ever that may be). Hence the refinement from rock-etched runes to a more "sterilized", yet still hyper-aggressive font-type. Younger Viking represents a dominant font-type in the fake future-date range of the 23 Century A.D.

zachariffic
zachariffic Fri, 6th April, 2012

Yay! I just raised the rating up by .2 stars! Could you make this clone-able, so I can edit it?

zachariffic
zachariffic Fri, 6th April, 2012

I you don't make it clonable, I will drop the ratings on all of your fonts drastically.

p2pnut
p2pnut Fri, 6th April, 2012

@zachariffic: That's not the way things work around here. Ratings are meant to reflect how good we think a design is - not a way of trying to blackmail someone!

If you want a different version of this font ... try creating it yourself. You are new here and, I guess, fairly young - we are always happy to help people get started with FontStruct, but don't like to see people being bullied.