Hi, I've been inspired by the music of MBR to look into creating a "runic" based operating system. I'm wondering has anyone given it thought on how to divide up a regular keyboard for runic lettering? Of course such runes like Ti ( T ) and Beorc ( B ) could take the place of Latin characters but what about the order of the runes, such as keeping with a "fuþark" sequence as that is also important.
I've been thinking of using Saxon runes from the "Seax of Beagnoth" as my model for the font.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seax_of_Beagnoth
Now for numbers, I have seen base10 numbers used in late Runnic Calendars (those q's with lines on them) but in the older ones base19 numbers are used due to the lunar cycle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_calendar
Base19 while effective on a calendar might not be an effective system for numbering and so since the Younger Futhark was already used as part of the base19 system using the Younger Futhark runes as base16 numbers is clear.
Slightly off topic though in the spirit of the thread, the base16 of the Younger Futhark has rattled me for another reason. In Havamal, Odin counts "18" runes but none of the known systems have 18 runes but there is a weird formula where it makes sense. Younger Futhark has 16 runes and Elder Futhark has 24 runes, if you write the base10 number "24" in base16 you get 0x18 (0x10 = 16 and 0x08 =8, 16+8=24). Which I think is weird and is either some kind of multi-century coincidence or the systems were authored that way. I don't know.