TRAJAN WEBFONT MOVIE
TRAJAN WEBFONT PRO

In 2014, Adobe released a companion font to Trajan, Trajan Sans, which offers a more contemporary and minimalist take on the original typeface designed by Twombly.

TRAJAN WEBFONT PRO

Trajan Pro was the initial OpenType release of the font, which included small caps in the lowercase slots, and in 2012 the font was revisited by Adobe’s Principal Type Designer, Robert Slimbach, who added four additional weights to the Trajan font family, in addition to the existing Trajan Pro Regular and Trajan Pro Bold font, releasing the typeface as Trajan Pro 3.

TRAJAN WEBFONT MOVIE

The legibility and visual drama of the font made it an instant hit with movie studios and book designers, who used the font liberally across posters and covers during the 1990s and 2000s. Twombly designed Trajan with display purposes in mind, rather than printed text. Some of her other type designs include Myriad, Charlemagne, and Adobe Caslon. Over a ten-year period, Twombly designed a range of typefaces for Adobe which were influenced by classical type styles. Trajan was designed as a digital font by Carol Twombly for Adobe, and it was released in 1989 as part of Adobe’s suite of fonts that came preloaded with its software. However, the digital version of Trajan released by Adobe has come to be the most widely used and acclaimed interpretation of the classical type design, with type historian Alastair Johnston noting that the Trajan Pro font outdid ‘anything old Fred Goudy ever produced.’ A drawing and photographed carving of the Trajan capital letterforms from the Column of Trajan made by Eric Gill in the early 20th century. British type designer Eric Gill faithfully copied the Trajan letterforms, using them as a reference point for his own type designs, including Gill Sans and Perpetua. Emil Rudolf Weiss created Weiss in 1926, and Frederic Goudy produced Forum Title, Hadriano, and Goudy Trajan, all in tribute to the Roman letterforms. Historically, many type designers and artists have taken an interest in the inscriptions on Trajan’s column, some of whom created their own interpretations of the Trajan font style. The all-capitals Trajan Pro font (the Romans did not use lowercase letters) takes its name from Trajan’s column, which has an inscription at its base which uses capitalis monumentalis letterforms. Trajan is a classical serif typeface based on the letterforms of Roman square capitals ( capitalis monumentalis ). Looking for more fonts similar to Trajan, and other classical Roman fonts? Bring a touch of heritage and historic elegance to your designs with these classical fonts on Envato Elements. Since then, a range of designers have revisited Trajan, looking to further optimise its legibility and visual impact.ĭiscover our selection of the best alternative fonts to the Trajan font family, as well as interesting Trajan facts about the Trajan typeface’s history and design. Based on classical Roman letterforms, the original digital version of the font was designed by Carol Twombly for Adobe in 1989. Trajan is one of the most recognisable and enduring display typefaces.

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