Thursday, May 30, 2013

Download Some Dwarvish Fonts

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Are you looking to download some fonts for Dwarf Runes?  These are good places to start:
fontspace.com
dafont.com
fonts2u.com



Keep in mind that the people compiling these fonts don't distinguish between the runes we have been learning (Cirth, from Appendix E of Lord of the Rings), the runes on Thror's Map in The Hobbit, and runes from any other generic fantasy dwarves.

From those sites, here are some of the more useful fonts:

Angerthas Moria
classic look
dafont.com/angerthas-moria

The Cirth Erebor set 
classic look
This is the font I have used for my examples.
Be aware that the characters do not correspond directly to the keyboard. 
fontspace.com/dan-smiths-fantasy-fonts/cirth-erebor
dafont.com/cirth-erebor
fonts2u.com/cirth-erebor


Angerthas
handwritten (brushstroke) look
fontspace.com/bruce-kvam/angerthas
fonts2u.com/angerthas-runes
 

Moria
informal look
Has phases of the moon in place of the numerals.
dafont.com/moria


Angerthas Moria (a different "Angerthas Moria" font)
informal look
fonts2u.com/angerthas-moria


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Here are runes in Thror's Map style.

Dwarf Runes
classic look, incomplete alphabet
fonts2u.com/dwarf-runes
 

Moon Runes
handwritten (brushstroke) look
A complete alphabet, though not all the numerals are in rune-style
fonts2u.com/moon-runes
 


Tolkien Dwarf Runes
handwritten  (blobby-pen) lookincomplete alphabetdafont.com/tolkien-dwarf-runes
fonts2u.com/tolkien-dwarf-runes
 


Thror's Map uses Anglo-Saxon Runes, so consider just downloading an Anglo-Saxon Rune font.
Most of these are "complete" alphabets, but not all the letters may correspond to characters found on Thror's map.
The lower-case letters are more likely to be "standard" characters, with variant forms in the capitals.  The C/K character on Thror's map might be in the C, c, K, or k position.

fonts2u.com/anglosaxon-runes
fontspace.com/dan-smiths-fantasy-fonts/anglosaxon-runes
fonts2u.com/anglo-saxon-runes-regular
fonts2u.com/futhark-aoe
dafont.com/futhark-aoe
dafont.com/ancientrunes
dafont.com/oxford-runes
dafont.com/english-runic
dafont.com/beowulf-runic
dafont.com/modraniht-runic
dafont.com/historical-runes


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Just for fun, here are a couple of fonts with "ordinary" letters in a runic-looking style.
fontspace.com/dan-smiths-fantasy-fonts/ds-runenglish-2
fontspace.com/manfred-klein/runish-quill-mk
dafont.com/odinson



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