Fontstructions tagged with “Viking”

1 1270 Published: 20th February, 2024
Last edited: 20th February, 2024
Created: 20th February, 2024

THIS HAS TO BE TYPED WITH CAPS LOCK ON

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116 0800 Published: 4th April, 2021
Last edited: 3rd October, 2021
Created: 4th April, 2021

Just to test out the font contructor, and being unable to find exactly what I needed, I decided to try my hand at the younger futhark!

Capital letters are the long-stave runes, while the lowercase letters are the short-twig runes. They were generally not used simultaneously, so pick one system and stick to it.

There are many repeated glyphs, and this is because of how the system works; there are several closely-related sounds that share a rune. K/G, F/V, B/P, to name a few. (and don't get me started on the vowels)

I tried to match the latin letters you're typing to whatever rune most closely corresponds to it... from a norse point of view? As these writing systems are not a 1-1 match, it won't be 100% accurate all the time, and I'm also an amateur hobbyist from Norway, but I tried my best with what I knew.

For example, while I used ár (ᛅ/ᛆ) for E due to its usage in the [ei] diphtong (eg. in names like Einar (ᛅᛁᚾᛅᚱ)), it has really no rune on its own, and can also be written with íss, the I rune.

Compatible with most extra letters used in Scandinavian languages and Old Norse, and not really meant for writing in modern English, where nothing is consistent at all.

Update, Oct. 3rd: Fixed the lǫgr (ᛚ) rune. It is no longer mirrored. Not sure how I managed to make that glaring error, and I apologise to the thirty people who already downloaded this.

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36 0762 Published: 2nd July, 2019
Last edited: 6th July, 2019
Created: 6th April, 2018

RUNES

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7 0542 Published: 21st March, 2019
Last edited: 6th March, 2019
Created: 4th March, 2019

Viking Flip is a thin, boxy typeface designed for mistical or mid-evil messages.

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15 0300 Published: 12th November, 2018
Last edited: 11th November, 2018
Created: 29th October, 2018

I designed this font based on the word 'Thunderous'. My thinking in how the word relates is due to the Norse God Thor. I then started to look in to old Norse culture, this got me interested in runes. So with deeper research in to the Futharks spawned this type.

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59 11981 Published: 6th June, 2018
Last edited: 6th June, 2018
Created: 22nd May, 2018

Just runes, here. For letters with numerals, puncuation and Futhark ruins, see my "Modern Futhark" font.

This is a clone

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208 0765 Published: 24th July, 2017
Last edited: 16th February, 2019
Created: 24th July, 2017

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3 438515 Published: 8th October, 2016
Last edited: 8th November, 2016
Created: 18th January, 2015

Inspired by a Blackletter font in which I saw Art Deco qualities. The name comes from Norse/Viking mythology. It's great for headlines/titles and works nicely as majuscles for slab sans serif fonts.

No DL for this particular design but the initial font design will be tidied (has Latin & MoreLatin only) and made available before the end of next week.

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12 0292 Published: 15th June, 2015
Last edited: 27th March, 2021
Created: 26th March, 2015

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36 2842 Published: 27th October, 2014
Last edited: 28th October, 2014
Created: 23rd October, 2014
After choosing the theme asymmetric my thoughts went straight to the face of odin,because of the eyepatch, and since odin was the one that gave the germanic tribes their characters (according to the mythology) the idea of basing this font on ancient norse runes was born. I really wanted that feel of rough, stone carved feel, straight lines were a priority, plus I really wanted to give it the sensation of eroded and old. The name futhark comes from the first six letter of the runic alphabet.

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9 1397 Published: 20th February, 2014
Last edited: 20th February, 2014
Created: 25th January, 2014
This was an experiment for the InlineComp, that I never finished. I'm not sure I will finish it, I just wanted to share this technique I found for making decorative serpents :) Please clone and explore (most letters are in the "runic" block of unicode)

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37 0588 Published: 16th January, 2014
Last edited: 30th June, 2014
Created: 15th January, 2014
These runes are my own personal creation, derived from Anglo-Saxon Runes, Germanic Runes, and Tolkien's Dwarven Runes, and the writing method was inspired by modern-day Korean. Accented letters (press Shift with the corresponding letter to use): C (Ch), D (Dh), K (Kh), N (Ng) R (Rh), S (Sh), T (Th), and Z (Zh). All other letters are lowercase.

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14 0952 Published: 24th December, 2013
Last edited: 24th December, 2013
Created: 24th December, 2013
The Yiistrohl adaptation of the Vahlduire alphabet, based on the symbols recorded and analyzed in Valduiri ruins on the Eastern jungle continent of Atiila. The alphabet is very different from english. Because of this, some symbols are paired with keys that have little similarity to the actual symbol. The following is a key to the symbols: English - Vahlduir

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30 0542 Published: 20th September, 2013
Last edited: 20th September, 2013
Created: 17th September, 2013
this is a work in progress let me know what you think and how it could be improved

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37 0743 Published: 5th May, 2013
Last edited: 5th May, 2013
Created: 6th March, 2012
Accurate Younger futhark runes.

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10 0462 Published: 19th February, 2013
Last edited: 19th February, 2013
Created: 12th February, 2013
This is a nordic mythology inspired font called Thor's Mark. This was created as a display font.

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8 0770 Published: 21st January, 2013
Last edited: 21st January, 2013
Created: 3rd January, 2013
Roughly based around the Elder Futhark and old runic alphabet.

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193 5429 Published: 21st February, 2012
Last edited: 4th November, 2014
Created: 21st February, 2012
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.This is a clone of VIKING, ELDER Runes

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55 0417 Published: 21st February, 2012
Last edited: 21st February, 2012
Created: 21st February, 2012
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.This is a clone of VIKING, MIDDLE Runes

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61 09914 Published: 4th February, 2012
Last edited: 4th February, 2012
Created: 4th February, 2012
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.This is a clone of VIKING, YOUNGER (Space Viking) Runes

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112 7996 Published: 4th February, 2012
Last edited: 4th February, 2012
Created: 17th August, 2008
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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48 1411 Published: 4th February, 2012
Last edited: 4th February, 2012
Created: 30th January, 2012
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.This is a clone of VIKING, ELDER Runes

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86 0311 Published: 4th February, 2012
Last edited: 1st February, 2012
Created: 24th January, 2012
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.This is a clone of VIKING, YOUNGER (Space Viking) Runes

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21 4546 Published: 20th January, 2012
Last edited: 6th November, 2011
Created: 3rd November, 2011
Forgotten Fonts 2 Runization // I'm looking through my font library at my many Forgotten Fonts to see how many should have been released.

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9 01011 Published: 20th January, 2012
Last edited: 20th January, 2012
Created: 4th November, 2011
This is a Clone of Sophistry Sans Modular. Yet another Runic Font, this time with a very modern twist. Wrought in mind for the 21st Century Heathen. Raise your Horns!!! Also, I can only be sorry for the leftover Latin letters, but as this is cloned I didn't really feel like opening each letter and deleting it... least not on this lap-top anyways! :D So always use this font WITH CAPS LOCK ON.This is a clone of Sophistry Sans Modular

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18 0843 Published: 21st March, 2011
Last edited: 21st March, 2011
Created: 18th March, 2011
A practical rounded rune font based on the New Futhork rune set. It uses a short-branch vowel system and includes all A-Z (with a handful of special characters), punctuation marks, the 'stan' rune, the 'wynn' rune and many more ;) Download if you dare to delve the depths of this forgotten way of writing...

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28 0722 Published: 17th March, 2011
Last edited: 17th March, 2011
Created: 14th March, 2011
A follow on from the 21st Century Futhork. You'll find a long branch set, as well as a short branch set, some numbers (1-5) and some punctuation :) If your a rune boffin and would like to know my reasonings behind some of the runes I'd be glad to let you know ;) Enjoy!

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24 0264 Published: 13th March, 2011
Last edited: 13th March, 2011
Created: 12th March, 2011
A mock run of a rune set I made to be a stand alone way of writing in runes today. Will come to boast all letters of the basic latin alphabet, as well as a few compound characters. I will stay true to old rune shapes, but where change in meaning seems reasonable I have done so. Enjoy! :)- Based on Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, English Futhorc, Medieval Runes (short and long branch)

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8 2942 Published: 10th February, 2011
Last edited: 10th February, 2011
Created: 10th February, 2011
Viking runes x=th and q=ng not there actual letters

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10 0321 Published: 26th June, 2010
Last edited: 25th December, 2011
Created: 17th September, 2009

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188 138971 Published: 29th May, 2010
Last edited: 15th November, 2010
Created: 15th April, 2010
Celtic knotwork in an insular style. Based on lettering from the Book of Kells. Some alternates in the lower case, some ligatures in the "More Latin" set, and a "construction kit" on ~ so you can create your own knotty fonts :-) UPDATE June 3 2010: Removed some artefacts from the 'E' and 'e'. Please re-download.This is a clone

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30 22141 Published: 17th May, 2010
Last edited: 26th May, 2010
Created: 13th May, 2010
Alphabet + Futhark = Alphathark. :) This is the definitive version of Alphathark, as it contains extra Latin characters, making it suitable for a wider range of European languages.This is a clone

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