Nug-Soth Font

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Nug-Soth.ttf

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Copyright notice
© 1999-2002 Daniel U. Thibault. All Rights Reserved.
Font family
Nug-Soth
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Urhixidur:Nug-Soth Regular:2002
Full font name
Nug-Soth
Name table version
Version 2.00; 2002 August 27
Postscript font name
Nug-Soth
Manufacturer name
Designer
Daniel U. Thibault
Description
Nug-Soth 2002 2.00

A freeware ancient/fantasy script font.

«Ye characters of Nug hold ye key to ye planes, employ ye them in ye talismanic art and in all ye sacred inscriptions»

Nug-Soth was a magician of the dark conquerors of 16 000 A.D.; victim of a mind transfer with a member of the Great Race of Yith, he was sent to 150 000 000 B.C. where he met Professor Peaslee. («The Shadow Out of Time», H. P. Lovecraft) Nug-Soth also designates a race of metallic-city-dwelling insect-mages locked in a doomed struggle against the Dholes («Visions of Yaddith», Ariel Prescott and/or Lin Carter). Neither is really connected with the Necronomicon.

This "alphabet" was invented for the (rather pitiful pseudo-esoteric) Avon edition of H. P. Lovecraft's wonderful bibliographical invention, Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon. You can see it displayed in Dino Manzella's e-book "Forgotten Scripts" (http://www.afternight.com/runes) and elsewhere on the Web.

The digits and the letters K and U are my inventions. The original "source" stated the alphabet was used to transcribe Latin, and therefore there was no K nor U ---one was to use C and V respectively instead.

Version 1 was created on 1999-October-06 with Softy, and suffered from a number of internal deficiencies. The characters were also incorrectly proportioned.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2002-08-17
Revision1
Glyph count226
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced