Thread: Serifed Runes
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Old 10-06-2009, 02:14 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
Since they predate modern typography, and were dropped as soon as writing was easier than "carve this in wood," yeah. I don't expect you to find any with good kerning options; they stopped having widespread use (if you can claim they ever had that) before typography was developed.

None of them ever worked well for body text. Even if the serifs & spacing can be worked out, there's no punctuation, no lower-case letters, no proper italic version, and so on.

Are you specifically looking for a Futhark-ish set of runes (the germanic/norse etc alphabet set), or any runes at all, as long as they've got usable typography?
You are, of course, perfectly right, Elfwreck.

I'm looking for any runes as long as they've got usable typography... including typographically aesthetic proportions, possibly not-just-shrunk-down-miniscules, et cetera. If nothing else, they'll give me some sense of what is possible with a bit of creativity, no matter how ahistorical.

Though specifically I'd be most interested in a font that covered Old Turkic or Old Hungarian.

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