King Harold Font
King Harold Font
Font Name:King Harold
Developer:Harolds Fonts
Category:Fancy > Distorted
Glyphs:201 glyphs / 214 characters
License Type:Free
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Developer's Note

KING HAROLD was inspired by the embroidered lettering on the famous Bayeux Tapestry.

The Tapestry was made c.1073-83 and records King Harold’s adventures and loss at the Battle of Hastings to William the Conqueror, with a special appearance by Halley’s Comet. It measures 230 feet long (69 meters) and is one of the great examples of Romanesque art.

Although armed with photographs, including some very good close-ups, I still wanted more detail to get the right feel. So I embroidered all the letters and numbers I needed, in imitation of the style of the original, and made the font from scans of my embroidery. I’ve included all the characters that appear on the Tapestry, plus those needed to fill out a modern font. (J, K, U, and Z do not appear in the original.)

At the left is the whole of the alphabet portion of my embroidery, which takes the form of a word-search puzzle containing at least 20 words related to the Tapestry. No prizes for finding them all!

Font Character Map
King Harold Font Character Map

King Harold font contains 214 defined characters and 201 unique glyphs.

The font contains characters from the following unicode character ranges: Basic Latin (93), Latin-1 Supplement (84), Latin Extended-A (10), Latin Extended-B (1), Spacing Modifier Letters (5), General Punctuation (14), Superscripts and Subscripts (1), Currency Symbols (1), Letterlike Symbols (1), Mathematical Operators (1), Private Use Area (2).

Font Metadata
  • Font Name:King Harold
  • Subfamily:Regular
  • Version:Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.3 2/21/09
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Font Info

King Harold is a fancy, distorted font designed by Harolds Fonts. The font is licensed as Free. The font is free for both personel and commercial usages. In doubt please refer to the readme file in the font package or contact the designer directly from haroldsfonts.com.

The zip archive contains the following files:

  • · King Harold.suit.bin
  • · KINGH___.TTF
  • · King-Harold_Read_Me.pdf
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