Hrii Cthulhu, Goka Font Ph'nglui!

Do you love nameless, creeping horrors in the deep? Unnaturally! Do you love fonts? Of course, you do. Thomas Phinney, a veteran type designer, is attempting an unholy union of the two by resurrecting the moldering corpse of three typefaces: Columbus, Columbus Initials, and American Italic. Columbus was used for all the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, in which Phinney played a hand (severed?), designing clues for "Masks of Nyarlathotep."

Back the project on Kickstarter for Phinney to create Cristoforo, modern renditions of these three fonts. Pledges at all but the lowest level come with licenses to use the fonts. Phinney's original work is terrific, and I have no doubt that he'll bring a sensitive hand to re-creating these classic faces.

Cristoforo: Victorian Cthulhu Fonts Revived [kickstarter.com]

Glenn Fleishman, @glennf, is the Executive Editor of The Magazine, a fortnightly electronic periodical for people interested in everything. Glenn also hosts The New Disruptors, a podcast about connecting creators and makers to their audiences, and writes as “G.F.” at the Economist's Babbage blog. He is a regular panel member on the geeky media podcast The Incomparable. In October 2012, Glenn won Jeopardy! twice.

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jeligula

I have that Masks module for Call of Cthulhu, the first edition. Now I know what font was used.
http://www.facebook.com/heather.cristofaro Heather Cristofaro

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn, bitches!
PhosPhorious

That is not dead, which can eternal lie
And with proper kerning, even death may die
http://twitter.com/jtnix jtnix

Nice! I have been looking for this font for ages. A variation was used on many Del-Rey fantasy novels from the 80′s most notably Lawrence Watt-Evans Ethshar books. The ligatures on some of the caps were amazing!
- Sparg
  
  Anybody know the artist who did this cover? I remember seeing so much of it on so many SF and Fantasy covers.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Margaret-Bessai/636046787 Margaret Bessai
  
  That cover was by Darrel K Sweet, and other artists at that time include the Brothers Hildebrandt.