BabelStone Fonts

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Description

BabelStone Runic is a generic Unicode runic font covering all runic characters in the Unicode Standard version 7.0. As this is a generic font, the glyph forms for some characters may not be ideal for some contexts, but is should be a useful fallback font for Runic text. There are two versions of this font:

• BabelStone Runic : plain runes
• BabelStone Runic Ruled : the same but with ruled lines above and below each character

These fonts do not map runic glyphs to Latin letters like most fonts, but use the special Runic characters defined in the Unicode Standard. See How to Input Unicode Ogham for suggestions on how to input Unicode characters (just substitute "Runic" for "Ogham" on that page).

Both fonts support a variety of bind runes as Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) ligatures. Both fonts also include mirrored glyphs for right-to-left layout. Right-to-left layout can be applied to Runic text set with these fonts 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). This works as expected in Firefox and Chrome browsers, but in IE11 and Edge browsers the text is reordered from right to left, but the mirrored glyphs are not applied.

Samples

BabelStone Runic (24 points)

BabelStone Runic Ruled (24 points)

Character Repertoire

BabelStone Runic covers all Unicode runic characters, including those added in Unicode version 7.0. The table below provides a comparison of the various BabelStone Runic fonts, showing each Unicode runic character as displayed in each BabelStone runic font, either using the BabelStone fonts installed on your local machine or using WOFF fonts for fonts that are not installed on your local machine.

Runic [16A0..16FF]

Ligatures

The table below lists ZWJ ligatures for bind runes that are currently supported in this font. Additional ligatures will be added on request.

OpenType Features

Version History

Download

BabelStone Runic is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which means you are free to use it for personal or commercial purposes, and to redistribute it by itself or as part of a free or commercial software package, just as long as you do not sell the font on its own. The license also allows you to modify the font in any way you like, as long as the modified font does not use "BabelStone" in its name. Please read the license for details.

For use on your computer or mobile device please download and install the TTF files. The WOFF and WOFF2 files are for web use only, and are not required by most users.

• Download BabelStone Runic [WOFF, WOFF2] v. 7.004 (2023-11-09)
• Download BabelStone Runic Ruled [WOFF, WOFF2] v. 7.004 (2023-11-09)
• Download a ZIP archive of both fonts (latest version of the TTF files)

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