Designing an entablature and trying to recreate the fron of the Roman looking building and am in search of the old time font used during that period...I would assume it was Latin....
Would appreciate any direction here guys!
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The letterstyle you want is called Trajan Roman. It was the lettering carved on the monument celebrating the victories of the emperor Trajan (don't ask me what year!) and was traced by by font designer Frederic Goudy (familiar name?)in 17something. It is considered by designers to be the highest and best example of classical Roman lettering. You may want to remember that Latin does not use the letter "U", it is always written as a "V" (which is why a "W" is called a doule-u, not a double-V". About the closest thing to it I have seen is a font called Perpetua Regular (on Gerber software).
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Hi Robert I have many books with the classical Roman alphabet shown.The original of course was on the Trajan Column.113AD.Erected in honour of the Roman General Trajan - later Emperor.No one knows apparently who the brilliant stonemason was. There is a decent rendition of this alphabet in a British book called Signwork by Bill Stewart. It is available from Signcraft magazine. ISBN No. is 0-632-03365-7. hope this is of some help. Dave.
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