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  • I want to create some symbols in TikZ.
  • The symbols should mimic the character set of two very specific fonts.
  • The fonts are called Ultima Underworld II and Dungeon Master.
  • I attached some pictures that show the look of the fonts.
  • I want to use the symbols within the normal text later.

runes of ultima underworld 1 and 2

another example

Dr. Manuel Kuehner
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    TikZ is for graphics. You are asking about using a particular system font. – percusse Mar 25 '18 at 20:30
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    Use XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, assuming the fonts are publicly available. They allow you to use any system font. – Alan Munn Mar 25 '18 at 20:30
  • I would like to use Tikz + miktex with pdflatex. thank you for asking. http://bfy.tw/HJ0Z – linux432532 Mar 25 '18 at 20:36
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    http://idownvotedbecau.se/noattempt/ and because you are being rude in the comments. – Henri Menke Mar 25 '18 at 20:37
  • Sorry for this. I have added the info "I am not looking for fonts, but I am looking for Tikz." to be sure that it will specific. thank you again. – linux432532 Mar 25 '18 at 20:45
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    If you set up your document font you can also use it with TikZ just like you can use it in a regular text. – percusse Mar 25 '18 at 20:48
  • Thank you at lot for your interests and recommendations, but I desire Tikz and not fonts, please. – linux432532 Mar 25 '18 at 20:49
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    Why though? Why recreate font shapes with TikZ and not use the font directly? You could use Inkscape to trace the outline of the characters and export to TikZ code. – Torbjørn T. Mar 25 '18 at 20:56
  • (because I want "no fonts" as mentioned, please again, just tikz, please.) Yeah, it looks fairly possible, i.e. to create using Inkscape and then to export Tikz, sounds a possible method. thank you – linux432532 Mar 25 '18 at 21:00
  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Yes it is possible to build those directly in tikz. But, it would be helpful if you made an attempt at doing one of them and then people here could help you when you run into specfic issues. – Peter Grill Mar 25 '18 at 21:17
  • I massively edited the question. If you are not happy let me know. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Mar 25 '18 at 21:27
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    Your bfy.tw/HJ0Z is very rude in my opinion. Maybe apologize and start over. I saw this after I wrote the answer. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Mar 25 '18 at 21:46
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    "I want to use it in normal text later" and "no it's not about fonts!!!" and puts font pictures and asks for how to do it with MikTeX :) – percusse Mar 26 '18 at 07:55
  • @percusse I edited the question yesterday. The OP did not react yet. I guess that the OP has no clue what he is asking and confuses the terminology. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Mar 26 '18 at 08:49
  • " Yes it is possible to build those directly in tikz." is very positive. More importantly, my sincere apology, concerning the link http://lmgtfy.com about fonts (rather than Tikz). – linux432532 Mar 26 '18 at 16:46

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  • Here's a simple code example.
  • Is that what you mean?
  • The code is far from optimal but maybe it helps you to ask a more specific question.
  • I do not know if baseline=(char.base) would be better/more appropriate than baseline=0 (see here for example).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

% Code is loosely based on https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/295360/    

% DRM --> Dungeon Master Runes
% 'em' is a length unit in LaTeX that is relative to the current font.
% See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8260/ for (much) more information

\newcommand\DMRAn{% <-- needed
\tikz[x=0.75em,y=0.75em,baseline=0]
\draw(0,0)--(0,1)--(0.7,0.5)(0,0.5)--(0.7,0.0);% <-- needed
}

\newcommand\DMRBet{% <-- needed
\tikz[x=0.75em,y=0.75em,baseline=0]
\draw(0,0)--(0,1)--(1,0.75)--(0,0.5)--(1,0.25)--(0,0);% <-- needed
}

\begin{document}
ABC \DMRAn\ DEF \DMRBet\

\end{document}

enter image description here

Maybe you can later combine this with Simulating hand-drawn lines to have a handwritten look :).

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    Exactly OK, Thank you Dr. Manuel Kuehner, It is awesome and impressive quality answer! No need to be stuborn with fonts, just Tikz method is nothing wrong or a crime. I would give all possible stars if it was possible, so much efforts you give to help people on Tex Stackexchg. Thank you for considering my post i.e. using Tikz (despite all Fonts method recommendations of many users (e.g. Xelatex,...)) Thank you a lot for your time and very high quality of answers. – linux432532 Mar 26 '18 at 16:58
  • Thanks for the feedback. Better luck next time :) – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Mar 26 '18 at 19:46
  • Hopefully, there will be better answer quality, because you were the single accurate answer. Many thanks ! – linux432532 Mar 29 '18 at 14:32
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    @linux432532 you might consider a) accepting the answer and b) dialing down your tone – DG' Mar 30 '18 at 07:43