Author's note

Runic Regular by Digital Type Foundry is a free runes dingbat font with a stark, carved-Nordic feel. The marks are built from blunt diagonals and straight uprights, so the set reads less like decorative symbols and more like signs cut into wood, stone, or metal.

That makes it a natural fit for fantasy book covers, game title cards, pagan or Viking-themed posters, album packaging, and logo-like monograms where you want symbolic lettering rather than ordinary text. As a free font, it works best in short settings, because the severe geometry and repeated wedge-like angles give even a few characters the weight of an emblem.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
@ 1991 Digital Type Foundry
Font family
Runic
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Altsys Fontographer 3.5 Runic Regular
Full font name
Runic Regular
Name table version
Altsys Fontographer 3.5 5/2/92
Postscript font name
Runic Regular

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1992-05-03
Revision1
Glyph count51
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced