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If you have been searching for rune
fonts on the web you'll know they are often hidden away in strange hard-to-find places. The joy of finding a new one is soon crushed when
you find it's the same old rune font given a different name.
I found that most of the fonts I downloaded
had something wrong with them. Some are all mixed up, Elder
Futhark, Anglo-Saxon Futhorc and Odin knows what else all jumbled
together. Some have invented or incorrectly drawn rune glyphs, mirror imaged
runes, upside down runes and so on. Some are poorly drawn,
different sizes within the same font, or just downright ugly! Many fonts that have
rune-related names are nothing more than normal alphabet characters in fancy styles. But the most annoying thing is undoubtedly
trying to find the right letter key for the rune you want. Every font has a different layout, and some of them are just idiotic.
In the end I decided to design my own fonts for use on the Runemaker websites. These are also available for download here. They
are not free, however. They took months to develop, so I am charging a nominal amount for each of the packages.
Each font contains not just the Elder Futhark runes illustrated here,
but a total of 40 characters to provide all the runes of both the Elder Futhark and
the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, and a keyboard map showing what keyboard letter corresponds
to each rune.
All my fonts use the same layout using logical and sensible key allocations that will soon become second nature
to you. For example lower-case keys are all Elder Futhark, upper-case are all Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, and the runes are
allocated their letter equivalent keys. So you get Ansuz from the "a" key, Berkanan from the "b" key and so on - except
Ingwaz and Thurisaz, of course. They do not correspond to any letters on the keyboard so I have made special
arrangements for them. There are also a couple of help files provided in case you are new to installing and using fonts.
I am told by a friend that the fonts work OK with MacOSX, but I can't provide any help or support for that system, Macs are a
mystery to me.
RM48 - RuneMaker and RuneMaster Font Pack
best-value package - US$11.95 for 6 fonts
My first and original rune fonts

The RuneMaker and RuneMaster Font Pack zip file includes these items:
Three versions of the RuneMaker Truetype Font
- regular, bold and italic
Three versions of the RuneMaster Truetype Font
- regular, italic and outline
Three versions of the keyboard
map as a Word document, a web page
and as a graphic image.
A beginners guide to working
with zip files.
A beginners guide to installing and using TTF fonts.
Zip file size: 75.6 Kb
RM47 - RuneCraft Font Pack
5 fonts - US$13.45
As used on the Rune Tattoos and new Rune-Craft websites

The RuneCraft Font Pack zip file includes these items:
Five versions of the RuneCraft True
Type Font - Regular, Italic, Bold, Light
and Outline.
Three versions of the keyboard
map as a Word document, a web page
and as a graphic image.
A beginners guide to working
with zip files.
A beginners guide to installing and using TTF fonts.
Zip file size: 72.1 Kb
RM36 - RuneSans Font Pack
5 fonts - US$13.45
A stylish sanserif font set for classy lettering

The RuneSans Font Pack zip file includes these items:
Five versions of the RuneSans True
Type Font - Regular, Italic, Bold, Light
and Outline.
Three versions of the keyboard
map as a Word document, a web page
and as a graphic image.
A beginners guide to working
with zip files.
A beginners guide to installing and using TTF fonts.
Zip file size: 73.1 Kb
RM37 - RuneGrafic Font Pack
4 special fonts - US$14.95
Fancy runes for use in graphic applications

The RuneGrafic Font Pack zip file includes these items:
Four True Type
RuneGrafic
fonts - Bevel, Engraved, Ruins and Twigs.
Three versions of the keyboard
map as a Word document, a web page
and as a graphic image.
A beginners guide to working
with zip files.
A beginners guide to installing and using TTF fonts.
Zip file size: 191 Kb
RM50 - All-Fonts Discount Pack
all 20 of the above fonts - US$42.45
Save 20% when you buy all 20 of the above fonts as a single package.
Zip file size: 256 Kb
Currently in development:
RuneSerif (regular, bold, light, italic, outline)
RuneGrafic Burned
RuneGrafic Woodcuts
RuneGrafic Pebbles
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