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NorseRunes
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Rune keyboard

Click any of the 89 runic characters to build a string, then copy it. Every character in the Unicode runic block is here, including the ones no alphabet actually used together.

A note on mixing alphabets

This keyboard offers every runic codepoint at once, which no historical writer ever had. If you are aiming for something a carver would recognise, pick one alphabet and stay inside it; the translator does that for you automatically.

Elder Futhark & general

The oldest runes, plus early variants.

Second ætt & Younger forms

Long-branch and short-twig variants sit alongside the Elder forms.

Third ætt & later letters

Including runes only the Elder Futhark or the futhorc used.

Anglo-Saxon & medieval additions

English and late Scandinavian characters.

Punctuation & symbols

Word dividers, and the Icelandic numeral symbols.

Rare & Franks Casket forms

Late additions to the Unicode block.

If you see empty boxes instead of runes

Runic characters are part of Unicode, but most operating systems do not ship a font that covers them. When a system has no glyph for a character it draws a hollow rectangle, often called tofu.

This site loads Noto Sans Runic so the runes display correctly here. Once you paste them elsewhere, whether they render depends on that application's fonts. Text copied from this page is real Unicode, not images, so it will survive the journey; it just may need a font installed at the other end.

For a design that has to render anywhere, download an SVG from the translator instead of pasting text.

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