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What’s the rune font?

Apr 08, 2018 at 09:33

This is the German edition of Rick Riordan’s “Magnus Chase”. Yeah. I know the font is Garamond or Sabon. However, I’m not interested in the main font. I’m interested in the rune font. So, could you identify it, please?

What’s the rune font?


Apr 08, 2018 at 11:36

Suggested font: Norse
  (This is not the requested font)


Apr 08, 2018 at 11:51

@donsshottype Nope, not the headline!


Apr 08, 2018 at 12:01

beehoney said  
@donsshottype Nope, not the headline!

So what difference do you see?


Apr 08, 2018 at 12:05

@donshottype Well, I don’t mean the headline. I mean the symbols which are gonna be explained on that page.


Apr 11, 2018 at 20:37

The symbols do not match any of the Runic fonts that I checked.

I checked publication information in the “Magnus Chase” books and found the credit: “Rune art by Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen.”

I also checked the pdf versions of the books and found that they use raster images of the Runes.

So I doubt very much that they are from a font.

Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen's Rune renderings look like they are a version of some of the Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc Runes: ᚠ feoh, ᚢ ur, ᚦ thorn, ᚩ os, ᚱ rad, ᚳ cen, ᚷ gyfu, ᚹ wynn, ᚻ haegl, ᚾ nyd, ᛁ is, ᛄ ger, ᛇ eoh, ᛈ peordh, ᛉ eolh, ᛋ sigel, ᛏ tir, ᛒ beorc, ᛖ eh, ᛗ mann, ᛚ lagu, ᛝ ing, ᛟ ethel, ᛞ daeg, ᚪ ac, ᚫ aesc, ᚣ yr, ᛡ ior, ᛠ ear, plus ᛢ cweorth, ᛣ calc, ᛤ cealc, and ᛥ stan.
More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_runes

There are other versions of Runes, as detailed in the Wikipedia article on Runes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes

Compare Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen's Rune renderings to the following image by Jack Daniel showing the Anglo-Saxon Fuþorc Runes, with their names, meanings, and values in the Latin alphabet:

Jack Daniel's rendering provides an svg file with vector outlines of each Rune.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglosaxonrunes.svg
and the actual svg:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Anglosaxonrunes-editable.svg

Jack Daniel granted the right to use this work for any purpose without any conditions, so there does not appear to be any obstacle for using them to create a font that almost identical to Michelle Gengaro-Kokmen's Rune renderings.

A DIY project, or something to be contracted to a font-maker.

Edited 3 times. Last edit on Apr 11, 2018 at 20:45 by donshottype



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