Skaldrift is a Viking font built from Latin letters drawn as if carved with a knife. There are almost no curves: the O, D and Q are diamonds, the C and G are bent from two straight cuts, and the R and K kick out at sharp angles, the way runes were cut across wood grain.

It is a rune-inspired font, not real runes: every letter is a normal Latin letter you can read, and the lowercase keys type small capitals in the same carved style. A name like Fjordhammer in caps and small caps feels like an inscription on a longship.

Carving a Title

The thin, even strokes look best large and with a little air. Set titles at 40 px or more and add 3 to 6 % letter spacing. Bone white on dark sea blue or charcoal suits it, and a hard drop shadow can look like a cut into stone, while a soft glow blurs the edges.

Raid It For

• ⛵ Viking and Norse game logos, map labels and inventory screens
• 📖 Saga novels and Norse mythology covers
• 🪓 Clan logos, Discord servers and stream banners
• 🍺 Mead, beer and festival labels with a northern feel
• 🎲 Tabletop RPG handouts, runestones and campaign titles

What You Download

Skaldrift Regular as OTF, TTF and WOFF2 · 89 characters (A–Z, small caps on a–z, 0–9, basic punctuation, typographic quotes) · 2,600+ kerning pairs · basic Latin; no accented letters and no Futhark rune glyphs.

License

Free for personal projects; for anything commercial, ask for a license at support@pixarts.store.

Published by RuneType.