The Glorantha Core Font is used by Moon Design and Chaosium in their publications. It is a compilation of the most useful characters from the 42 or so fonts created in the 2000s by Greg Stafford. It’s provided here for use in your games. It is a Truetype font compatible with both Windows and Apple systems.
The font currently does not include the sorcery technique runes detailed on page 384 of RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. These have been included with the font as SVG files and are subject to the same copyright. Thanks to Phil Hibbs for creating the SVG files of the runes.
The Glorantha Core Runes font and Sorcery rune files are copyright © Moon Design Publications. Permission is granted for use in products in Chaosium’s Jonstown Compendium on DriveThruRPG. It is also granted for personal and fanzine use, as long as a credit and copyright notice is included, the font is not altered, and no fee of any kind is charged for its use.
Download the Rune file from here
The current version font 1.5 was released on 27 Jan 2016
Updated with sorcery runes & keyboard layouts 25 Sept 2019
Key
Key | Name | Rune | Primary sources | Secondary sources | Notes | Owner |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dying Moon Phase | P:GtA 403 | sub-rune | |||
2 | Crescent Go Moon Phase | P:GtA 402 | sub-rune | |||
3 | Full Half Moon Phase | P:GtA 402 | sub-rune | |||
4 | Full Moon Moon Phase | P:GtA 403 | sub-rune | |||
5 | Empty Half Moon Phase | P:GtA 403 | sub-rune | |||
6 | Crescent Come Moon Phase | P:GtA 403 | sub-rune | |||
7 | Black Moon Phase | P:GtA 403 | sub-rune | |||
w | Water | ![]() | RQG 48 | GS 191, HQG 15 | ||
e | Earth | ![]() | RQG 48 | GS 191, HQG 15 | ||
t | Death | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 16 | Humakt | ||
y | Truth | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 16 | |||
u | Undead | S:KoH 320 | AKA Unlife | |||
i | illusion | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 16 | |||
o | Darkness | RQG 48 | GS 191, HQG 14 | |||
p | Plant | GS 192, HQG 17 | ||||
a | Law | S:KoH 71 & 162 | ||||
s | Movement | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 16 | |||
d | Dragon | Deity Rune | ||||
f | Lightbringers | HM 186 | Deity rune. AKA The Orlanthi Religion | |||
g | Air | RQG 49 | GS 192, HQG 15 | AKA Storm | Orlanth | |
h | Communication | GS 193, HQG 18 | AKA Trade | IssariesIssaries | ||
j | Disorder | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 16 | |||
k | Shargash | HQ2 120, GRoY 58 | Deity rune | |||
l | Harmony | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 16 | |||
x | Fertility | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 16 | AKA Life | Uleria | |
c | Stasis | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 16 | |||
b | Spirit | GS 193, HQG 17 | ||||
n | Horse | A sub-beast rune | ||||
, | Man | RQG 50 | GS 193, HQG 17 | |||
. | Fire/Sky | RQG 48 | GS 191, HQG 15 | |||
/ | Moon | RQG 49 | GS 192, HQG 15 | |||
W | Mastery | GS 193, HQG 18 | ||||
E | Heler | HM 186 | Deity rune | |||
R | Magic | GS 193, HQG 18 | ||||
Y | Yinkin | S:KoH 180 | Deity rune (Air & Beast) | |||
I | God / Divine World | included for date notation for Godsday | ||||
O | Light | P:GtA 381 | ||||
P | Pamalt | Deity rune | ||||
A | Dragonewt | GS 193, HQG 17 | ||||
S | Infinity | GS 193, HQG 18 | ||||
F | Barntar | HM 186 | Deity rune | |||
G | Sartar | S:KoH 290 | Deity rune | |||
H | Hell | HQ2 120 | ||||
K | Luck | GS 193, HQG 18 | ||||
L | Heat | HQG 15 | ||||
X | Fate | GS 193, HQ2 120 | ||||
C | Bear | SC 279 | Deity rune. Sub-beast rune | |||
V | Eternal Battle | HQG 18 | ||||
B | Beast | RQG 50 | GS 192, HQG 17 | Hykim | ||
? | Chaos | GS 193, HQG 18 | Wakboth |
Please note that the sources mentioned here supersede any previous writeups.
Sources
- RQG – RuneQuest Glorantha (2018)
- GS – Glorantha Sourcebook (2018)
- HQG – HeroQuest Glorantha (2015)
- P:GtA – Pavis: Gateway to Adventure (2012)
- SC – Sartar Companion (2010)
- S:KoH – Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes (2009)
- HQ2 – HeroQuest Core Rules (2009)
- HM – The Book of Heortling Mythology (2009)
- GRoY – The Glorious Reascent of Yelm (1993)


Notes on this font
I compiled this font so that Rick, Jeff and others could finally have a standard font that had all the basic Gloranthan runes, without using old or multiple fonts. The arrangement of characters is based on their position in their original font. Very few had their positions changed, this was to reduce confusion when switching from the older fonts. Don’t try to look for any logical pattern in their arrangement, there isn’t one. If you are wondering why some characters are included and others aren’t, it was based on need and simplicity.
David Scott.
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- Canon
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- Dragon Pass
- Enemy Gods
- Finval and the Magic Game
- Glorantha
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- Greg Sez – Moon Names (2008)
- Heler, the Great Rain
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- History of Dragon Pass in the Second Age
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- Some Gods
- Some Myths
- Some Pamaltelan Creation Mythology
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