BabelStone Fonts have a few rare foreign, fantasy, and sci-fi fonts available (Including Runic!)
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/index.htmlCypher Fonts
* BabelStone Centaurian version 1.00 [details]
* BabelStone Pigpen Fonts (zip of all three fonts) [details]
o BabelStone Pigpen version 1.01
o BabelStone Club Penguin version 1.01
o BabelStone Leeson version 1.00
Fonts for Fiction Scripts
* BabelStone Goblin (zip of both fonts) [details]
o BabelStone Goblin version 1.00
o BabelStone Goblin Vertical version 1.00
Han Fonts
* BabelStone Han version 1.06 [details]
Ogham Fonts
* BabelStone Ogham Fonts (zip of all four fonts) [details]
o BabelStone Ogham version 1.01
o BabelStone Ogham Bound version 1.01
o BabelStone Ogham Fixed version 1.01
o BabelStone Ogham Stemless version 1.01
Phags-pa Fonts
* BabelStone Phags-pa Book version 1.01 [details]
* BabelStone Phags-pa Seal version 1.00 [details]
* BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan [details]
o BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan A version 1.00
o BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan B version 1.00
BabelStone Phags-pa Fonts (zip of all four fonts)
Runic Fonts
* BabelStone Anglo-Saxon Runic Fonts (zip of all six fonts) [details]
o BabelStone Runic Beagnoth version 1.02
o BabelStone Runic Beorhtric version 1.03
o BabelStone Runic Beorhtnoth version 1.03
o BabelStone Runic Beowulf version 1.02
o BabelStone Runic Berhtwald version 1.02
o BabelStone Runic Byrhtferth version 1.02
* BabelStone Moon Runes version 1.01 [details]
Zhang Zhung Fonts
* BabelStone Tibetan sMar-chen version 1.01 [details]
BabelStone Han
This is a general purpose dual-width Unicode Han font derived from the "AR PL Mingti2L Big5" and "AR PL SungtiL GB" fonts (released under the Arphic Public License). The font is currently under development, and has incomplete coverage of the main CJK unified ideographs block. I anticipate that it will take several years to complete coverage of the main CJK block, but if there are any particular characters (from any CJK block) that you need urgently, let me know and I will prioritise them.
BabelStone Anglo-Saxon Runic Fonts
These are a set of six Runic fonts that each cover the subset of 34 characters in the Unicode Runic block that are used in Frisian and Anglo-Saxon inscriptions from the 5th to 11th centuries :
* BabelStone Runic Beagnoth : A font based on the runic letterforms used on the Thames scramasax
* BabelStone Runic Beorhtric : A font based on the angular letterforms used in runic inscriptions, but with some early letterforms
* BabelStone Runic Beorhtnoth : A font based on the angular letterforms used in runic inscriptions
* BabelStone Runic Beowulf : A general purpose sans serif font
* BabelStone Runic Berhtwald : A general purpose serif font
* BabelStone Runic Byrhtferth : A font based on the rounded letterforms used in runic manuscripts
These fonts use OpenType features to implement kerning, ligatures (bind runes and mirror runes), mirrored glyphs for Right-to-Left contexts, and stylistic alternative glyphs
Ligatures (Bind Runes)
All fonts include a number of ligatures (bind runes) that can be activated by inserting a Zero Width Joiner character (U+200D or ‍ in HTML) between the characters to be ligatured (e.g. <16BB 200D 16D6 200D 16DA> produces the HEL ligature). All attested Anglo-Saxon bind runes that I know of are included, but if there are any of others that you need, please let me know.
Mirror runes (where the glyph is mirrored around the central stem) are implememented as ligatures of the same rune doubled (e.g. <16A2 200D 16A2> produces the mirrored form of the ur rune).
Kerning
All fonts except for BabelStone Runic Berhtwald provide kerning between runes where appropriate.
Alternate Glyphs
BabelStone Runic Beowulf and BabelStone Runic Beohtric include stylistic alternate glyphs for some characters using the OpenType salt (Stylistic Alternates) feature. Some applications may allow you to select a particular stylistic alternate glyph, but I do not have access to any such application, so I have not been able to test that this feature has been implemented correctly in my fonts.
Mirrored Glyphs for Right-to-Left Text
Runic inscriptions mostly read left-to-right (LTR), but sometimes read right-to-left (RTL) or are sometimes written boustrophedon (left-to-right and right-to-left in alternate lines); when written right-to-left the glyphs are normally mirrored, as for example on the front of the Franks Casket shown below, where the top line is written left-to-right with normal glyphs, and the bottom line is written right-to-left with mirrored glyphs.
You can cause a stretch of Runic text to be displayed in right-to-left order by putting U+202D (LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE [RLO]) at the start of the text and putting U+202C (POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING [PDF]) at the end of the text (PDF is not required at the end of a line, as the directionality of the text is reset at a new line, but for the same reason RLO is required at the start of each line of RTL text).
The BabelStone Anglo-Saxon Runic fonts all include mirrored glyphs for use in Right-to-Left contexts. The mirrored glyphs should be applied by activating the rtlm (Right-to-left mirrored forms) OpenType feature (see discussion on "Left-to-right and right-to-left text" at Advanced Typographic Extensions - OpenType Layout) when the text is marked as RTL as descibed in the previous paragraph, but this feature appears not to be supported by Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Labels
* Cipher Fonts (1)
* Fonts for Fictional Scripts (2)
* Han Fonts (1)
* Keyboard Layouts (2)
* Ogham Fonts (1)
* Phags-pa Fonts (3)
* Pigpen Fonts (1)
* Runic Fonts (2)
* Tolkien Fonts (2)
* Zhang Zhung Fonts (1)
BabelStone Fonts
* BabelStone Anglo-Saxon Runic Fonts
* BabelStone Centaurian
* BabelStone Club Penguin
* BabelStone Goblin
* BabelStone Han
* BabelStone Leeson
* BabelStone Moon Runes
* BabelStone Ogham Fonts
* BabelStone Phags-pa Book
* BabelStone Phags-pa Seal
* BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan
* BabelStone Pigpen
* BabelStone Tibetan sMar-chen
See Also
* BabelStone Moon Runes (an Anglo-Saxon runic font based on the moon runes on Thror's map in The Hobbit)
See the
BabelStone Fonts Blog here:
http://babelfonts.blogspot.com/ http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/index.html