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About Balgruf Font
This is a font inspired by the game 'Skyrim', if you have ever played Skyrim and read any of the books there you may have noticed that the upper case 'F' looks out of place and has a very large right side bearing. It looks like a graphic designer with no typographical experience was given the job of making an F on a very tight deadline and this is what he/she came up with. It seems to be cobbled together from pieces of other characters in the font cut up and glued together.
Once you see this mistake you cannot unsee it. As a type designer I thought I could have done better. So the question arose, how would I have done it. This font is the answer to that question.
Enjoy!
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Ornate, Gothic, Gothic
- Use Case
- Logos, Certificates
- Ideal For
- medieval themes, band merch, and tattoo lettering
- Pairs With
- a clean sans-serif for body text
OpenType Features
Balgruf ships with 2 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).
- Lining figures
- Stylistic sets (1)
How to Install Balgruf Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Balgruf font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Balgruf is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Balgruf Font
by Paul Miller
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team Β· Updated October 2026
License: Public domain / GPL / OFL



















