Viking Display of a Digital Kind
In putting together my upcoming class on the development of various futharks, I've managed to keep nearly all the work completely digital, by which I mean I've been using runic fonts to get the appropriate characters into the appropriate places in my handouts.
I haven't yet found a single font package that gets me every rune I need, but a combination of two rendering packages gets me a fairly complete set. I use Gullskoen and Junicode together. So far, I've been able to use these two items for all but the Swedish transitional (500-700CE) jara rune variants, and that's a pretty obscure couple of runes.
For you non-Vikings, Junicode is generally medievalist: it's got extended Latin, Gothic, Old English and other useful characters from the higher Unicode ranges. You may find it useful, too.
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I haven't yet found a single font package that gets me every rune I need, but a combination of two rendering packages gets me a fairly complete set. I use Gullskoen and Junicode together. So far, I've been able to use these two items for all but the Swedish transitional (500-700CE) jara rune variants, and that's a pretty obscure couple of runes.
For you non-Vikings, Junicode is generally medievalist: it's got extended Latin, Gothic, Old English and other useful characters from the higher Unicode ranges. You may find it useful, too.
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