{"id":2624,"date":"2019-04-03T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2019-04-03T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:04:47","slug":"tolkien-ready-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/tolkien-ready-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire-Writing: Tolkien-Ready Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0recently attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/exhibitions\/tolkien\"><em>Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth<\/em><\/a> exhibit at the Morgan Library, and I wondered if anyone had created a true Tolkin-esque font. I did a search for fonts that look similar to<em>\u00a0fire-writing<\/em>,\u00a0the handwritten font J.R.R Tolkien invented in 1953. You can see an example on the exhibition web page. My findings are below.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of runic or \u201celvish\u201d fonts, but I was only looking for Tolkien-esque fonts that resembled <em>fire-writing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>dafont.com<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/search.php?text=Tolkien%3A+Maker+of+Middle-Earth&amp;q=hobbit\">Hobbiton<\/a>\u00a0(2 styles) by Nancy Lorenz<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/tengwar-annatar.font?text=Tolkien%3A+Maker+of+Middle-Earth\">Tengwar Annatar<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Johan Winge<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/elven-common-speak.font?text=Tolkien%3A+Maker+of+Middle-Earth\">Elven Common Speak<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Nancy Lorenz<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/tencele-latinwa.font?text=Tolkien%3A+Maker+of+Middle-Earth\">Tencele Latinwa<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Ronald Kyrmse<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/tengwar-cursive.font?text=Tolkien%3A+Maker+of+Middle-Earth\">Tengwar Cursive (not related)<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Harri Per\u00e4l\u00e4<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/thimfora-79.font?text=Tolkien%3A+Maker+of+Middle-Earth\">Thimfora 79<\/a>\u00a0by Naraphim Mirojzhum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dafont.com\/nancy-lorenz.d751?text=Tolkien%3A+Maker+of+Middle-Earth\">Nancy Lorenz<\/a>\u00a0is clearly a fan of Tolkien and The Hobbit!<\/p>\n<h3>Google Fonts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/specimen\/Italianno\">Italianno<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/specimen\/Tangerine\">Tangerine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Velvetine.fr<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velvetyne.fr\/fonts\/blocus\/\">Blocus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick search for fonts that look similar to fire-writing, the handwritten font J. R. R. Tolkien invented in 1953.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[508,507,348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}