Typophile

Font request - kana/runic fusion?

Penda

Hi. I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but it must be worth a try.

I have a bizarre font request.

Purely for personal fun, I’m interested in a sans-serif futhorc (Anglo-Saxon runes) set evolved to resemble the Japanese kana (either katakana or hiragana), while still identifiable as futhorc. Preferably matching the dimensions and weight of simplified Chinese characters in another font (I expect creating your own hanzi font would be much too time-consuming).

I keep some private notes in a mixed runic/hanzi script, and a font like this would be amazing to see, but perhaps challenging to produce.

I would be willing to make a donation in return for such a font (only a small one, though), and I would use it a lot and enjoy it.

If this sounds like an interesting project, give it a try.

Si_Daniels

>I would be willing to make a donation in return for such a font

Perhaps you have something you could barter for such a font. Maybe a ring with magical properties or a crystal with a special power.

Ray Larabie

Sounds like fun. Contact me and I'll wrangle some letters for you.
http://typodermicfonts.com/pages/about

Andreas Stötzner

It sounds not so funny for me, it rather sounds like an interesting exercise for the typographical mind at least. If it is to become a project as well this is another question.

It’s once again about graphically harmonizing different scripts, what about we have struggled so far for at least twelve years now …
Runes and Kana, sounds a bit strange at the first glance, but it isn’t a strange thing at all. I have worked on harmonizing Runes to Latin and airport pictos to Greek … funny yes, but very serious kind of fun ;-)

Why “sans serif”?

@ Simon: you and your folks should have been the first band to seriously think about harmonizing Runes to Kana and Arabic and Gujarati and Cherokee and … but you didn’t bother. We all know :-)

Penda

Yeah, it is interesting. Runes weren't designed with paper or brushes in mind and were intended for carving, so it would be good to see a modern evolution of the script. Chinese characters and runes are my two favourite writing systems and, although I can use them together, it doesn't have much aesthetic appeal.

On the other hand, kana and kanji in Japanese (a mixed system) go together nicely. I love looking at Japanese text even though I can't read it. It seems well balanced, with the kanji making skim-reading easy and the kana breaking it up, so it doesn't look as dense as Chinese text.

If I could make my own mixed system (runes and simplified hanzi) look that good, it would please me greatly.

As for the magic ring and crystals, I have none of those to give. :P

And I don't have anything against serif fonts, it's just that a nice, clean sans-serif font is my priority.

Si_Daniels

>@ Simon: you and your folks should have been the first band to seriously think about harmonizing Runes to Kana and Arabic and Gujarati and Cherokee and … but you didn’t bother. We all know :-)

If you bothered to download Windows 8 you'd know that we actually did. Sort of. :-)

>As for the magic ring and crystals, I have none of those to give. :P

Glad you could see my comment was a just a joke. The project does sound interesting. Best of luck with it.

oprion

Bronze script surely comes to mind as an early incised form of Chinese characters that were rather rune-like in appearance.

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