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Trajan Sweeping Typeface Inscription Elongated Tail Q Angled

Name Trajan
Characteristics
Elongated sweeping tail of “Q”.
Angled vertical serifs on “T”, “E”, “C”, and “Z”.
Sweeping terminals of “K” and “R”.
History
Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan’s Column from which the typeface takes its name. Since the inscription and its writing form manifests in only one case, Trajan is an all-capitals typeface.

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