Darius West Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 As a keeper I have always enjoyed making my own handouts, and to that end I have gathered a few fonts together to stand in for various runes, glyphs and sigils of the various mythos creatures. One of my dearest wishes is that Chaosium would release official fonts for languages like Aklo, Tsath-Yo, Senzar, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysterioso Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Doesn't HPLHS have a font pack? IIRC they started way back when as a Cthulhu Live group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sverbridge Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Here is the link from the HPLHS web site with a bunch of fonts. There are a lot of other cool things on this site too... http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/PROPDOCS/PropFonts.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joggiwagga Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 First off - fantastic thread title. Secondly - anyone know of a quality we'll say eldritch font? Sadly this one is no longer free: http://thevaultsofmctavish.deviantart.com/art/Cthulhuian-Font-v1-450664130 I did find this one while poking around: http://www.1001fonts.com/lovecrafts-diary-font.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius West Posted June 30, 2016 Author Share Posted June 30, 2016 (edited) Thanks for the flood of help everyone. What I am specifically looking for is fonts for Aklo (a couple exist, but I don't like them), Elder Thing Cipher, Mi-Go runes, Muvian Naacal, R'lyeh Glyphs, Senzar and Tsath-Yo. I am well aware of the fine work of the HPLHS, in fact I bought their fonts back in 2013. The HPLHS site has some really great period fonts, but they don't have the fonts I'm looking for. Here is what I have come up with thus far... http://www.fonts2u.com/hieratic-numerals.font Egyptian Heiratic makes a better Aklo imo. http://www.fontspace.com/digital-type-foundry/enochian Might as well use Enochian for Enochian http://www.dafont.com/iokharic.font Iokharic is a fine looking jagged script that is vaguely like Senzar http://www.dafont.com/rongorongo.font Rongorongo, the characters from Easter Island are a bit like R'lyeh Glyphs...obviously a derived language http://www.fonts2u.com/maya-hieroglyphics.font Mayan Heiroglyphics provide a decent Naacal font http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1221931/rosicrucian_cipher Rosicrucian Cipher Font. http://www.fonts2u.com/masonic-cipher-symbols.font Masonic Cipher font http://io9.gizmodo.com/5218119/13-alien-languages-you-can-actually-read' This site was an eye-opener. http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/conlangs.htm This one is cool too. Don't get me wrong, I love period fonts for the 1920s too and I have quite a few, but I am after "constructed language" mythos fonts. For those who have the Keeper's Companion 1 from 6th Ed, the article on pages 38-40, with special reference to the illustrations provided as examples. When keeping, I give out handouts in these fonts periodically and award the first people to decipher them a +5% in the language in question. Normally I only use a simple substitution cipher to make it do-able. My players love it and look forwards to it... perhaps they are already insane? Edited June 30, 2016 by Darius West 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joggiwagga Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Well, I seem to be needing to download a few more fonts now don't I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarence Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Some excellent links there. Thanks Darius. 1 Quote FrostByte Books M–SPACE d100 Roleplaying in the Far Future Odd Soot Science Fiction Mystery in the 1920s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius West Posted May 13, 2021 Author Share Posted May 13, 2021 On 7/2/2016 at 6:39 AM, clarence said: Some excellent links there. Thanks Darius. I am glad you like them. I had actually forgotten I had posted this, it was 5 years ago now. Frankly I am just glad that the links have remained intact. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBull Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 First my thanks to Darius for this excellent font collection. In the Book "Cults of Cthulhu", published 2021, page 69 shows a sample of R'lyeh Glyphs, R'lyehian. I have collected many "Cthulhu"-fonts over the years but it is no match to this new ones. Does any of you know if there will be an official font for this? Here is the link to show you what I am looking for. Thank you for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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