Runelike

Runelike is a font I made in 2014 as a replacement for my earlier font, Latin Runes. Like its predecessor, I needed it for use in cartographic materials for my never-finished fantasy novel, and the idea was again to try to combine Nordic runes and Latin script. However, unlike Latin Runes, the Runelike font has been carefully thought out to make it more consistent - and also more readable, at least in my eyes.

The release of both fonts on DaFont showed me that the previous and supposedly inferior version had found its satisfied users, so in the end I could not write it off. Nevertheless, I consider Runelike the ultimate fulfillment of my original idea of "making the letters look like runes."

Version 1.0 of the font was available on DaFont for nearly ten years and consisted of 124 glyphs (not counting redundant ones; that's one less than in Latin Runes, for some reason I left out the Euro currency symbol) covering the basics and additional Polish and Scandinavian letters. Version 2.0 is up-to-date and includes various technical fixes and adjustments, including new and more consistent 0-9 digits. The free version is available here and at DaFont and consists of 125 glyphs, the same as in the previous version plus the missing Euro sign. I also offer an extended version of the font, which has 263 glyphs and goes with a fairly straightforward commercial license. You buy it, you can use it for whatever you want.

Please keep in mind that I am not a professional font designer, not even a hobbyist. It's just that sometimes I have a surge of creativity here and there, and that's it.

Images used in the covers by:

Patrick Robert Doyle on Unsplash

Brian Patrick Tagalog on Unsplash

and myself