Author's note

Viking, Elder Runes by flansburg_design of FontStruct is a free runic display font with tall, sharply angular symbols. Narrow strokes and open interiors give the alphabet a carved, linear appearance, and several forms use striking crossed or forked details.

A historical game title is its most convincing role, especially for interfaces, maps, and faction emblems shaped by Norse-inspired imagery. The same severe geometry suits metal album artwork and fantasy publishing, where the symbols can function as lettering or decorative marks. Across these uses, the repeated peaks, diagonals, and rune-like branches connect the type directly to ancient-world and mythic themes.

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VIKING is a pseudo-historical font derived from Elder Futhark runes. This runic typeface is based on ancient Germanic symbols later adapted by the Goths, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and the Third Reich, and depicted as Dwarven runes in fantasy genres.

ELDER VIKING is an almost exact interpretation of Elder Futhark, with additional characters corresponding as closely as possible to the basic 26 uppercase Latin characters.

MIDDLE VIKING is the second-generation evolution of a rune typeface based on Elder Futhark. It is designed as a semi-cryptic typeface intended to be almost readable as a Latin equivalent, unlike ELDER VIKING. MIDDLE VIKING contains numeric runes and basic punctuation.

YOUNGER VIKING is the third-generation rune typeface and a fully modern interpretation of Elder Futhark. YOUNGER VIKING, also known as “SPACE VIKING,” contains uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, and various punctuation marks.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Copyright flansburg_design 2012
VIKING, ELDER Runes is based on VIKING, YOUNGER Runes by flansburg_design (http://fontstruct.com/fontstructors/flansburg_design)
Font family
VIKING, ELDER Runes
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
FontStruct VIKING, ELDER Runes
Full font name
VIKING, ELDER Runes Regular
Name table version
Version 1.0
Postscript font name
VIKING,-ELDER-Runes
Trademark notice
FontStruct is a trademark of FSI FontShop International GmbH
Manufacturer name
http://fontstruct.com
Designer
flansburg_design
Description
VIKING, ELDER Runes was built with FontStruct
VIKING, ELDER Runes is based on VIKING, YOUNGER Runes by flansburg_design (http://fontstruct.com/fontstructors/flansburg_design)

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2012-02-21
Revision1
Glyph count34
Units per Em1024
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureOutlined