{"id":1062,"date":"2011-12-16T10:57:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plumrocket.com\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:34:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:34:43","slug":"trajan-website-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/trajan-website-font","title":{"rendered":"Viva Trajan?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we\u2019d like to tell you about Trajan \u2013 the font loved by numerous movie poster designers. Trajan is an old style typeface created by Carol Twombly when she was working for Adobe (in 1989). The designer based the font on Roman square capital letters engraved on the base of Trajan\u2019s Column<\/a>, hence, the name.<\/p>\n

Initially, this font was meant to represent anything to do with the Roman Empire, religion, law, class or the past in general.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Trajan was too often used in billboards, movie posters and ads, and this beautiful typeface has become the symbol of an easy way of movie promotion\u2026 and lazy movie marketers. This phenomenon was skillfully mocked by Kirby Ferguson.<\/a><\/p>\n