Typing runes on Blickensderfer
My friend from work, Marcus, happens to be very comfortable in using runes for everyday notes.
Yeah, I work with extraordinary people!
That gave me an idea to implement runes as a custom font on Blick. Why not? I could write semi-secret notes to Marcus without really knowing this alphabet, right? The machine will cover that part!
Apparently there are several versions of runes and while they were in daily use there were many versions of the same sign, depending on artist and region. I decided to implement the version which Marcus is using most frequently as this is also the version which has almost all our Latin signs covered.
With notes and guidelines from Marcus I designed my wheel.
The prototype worked well but I made a few mistakes in rune size and form. The second one, corrected, was created a day after. And so I can type in runes!
I know that Richard Polt receives The Typewriter Manifesto translated into different languages and alphabets but as far as I know he does not yet have one in runes.
I sat down and typed The Manifesto in ancient runes.
After all - most of them are found in Sweden so this is legit to send him such document from here.
With a twist: it is typed on very old machine, in XXI century, with alphabet preceding usage of our current one (in this part of the world).
The Revolution roots are ancient!