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Trajan
Hello
OK, I deverse to get the piss taken out of me for this one, but any advice would be most useful.
I have used Trajan for an identity project. The client loves it, all is good, except...
Now I have come to set the companies stationery, there is no lowercase... can someone suggest a similar typeface with a lowercase?
Thanks
Jim
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4 Mar 2005 — 4:26am
Gill's Perpetua comes to mind but you might check www.myfonts.com for some comparisons.
vinnie
4 Mar 2005 — 5:22am
I would suggest la gioconda.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/letraset/la-gioconda/
4 Mar 2005 — 5:27am
The only actual Trajan lower case attempted digitally (and commencially available) that I can think of is La Gioconda. It's based on Giovanni Francesco Cresci's work, the first guy to break his head over this problem. Although La Gioconda was drawn by talented hands, I don't care for it as a lower case to Trajan.
Can you show the logo? I think you'll want to stear way clear of things that *look* like trajan. Go for contrast instead.
R
4 Mar 2005 — 5:31am
4 Mar 2005 — 6:09am
Hmm, so this isn't exaclty taking my own advice.
Try HTF Requiem
Perhaps Berkley?
Or maybe Electra?
Comments on the logo:
What will it look like at 1cm? [box] ABERCROMBIES?
The box seems a little off balance, though maybe for a reason. Maybe try the pattern with each spikey thing positioned the same way in it's box. Or ratating 90 degrees each time.
Just thinking.
Good luck!
4 Mar 2005 — 2:39pm
Giovanni de Faccio`s Rialto
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3992/is_200101/ai_n8931365
or
Diotima, Nofret or Carmina by Gudrun Zapf von Hesse
or
Berthold Senatus but it's only uc/sc, and, pity about that 'S'
which is going to fall over !
Best,
Alessandro
4 Mar 2005 — 12:10pm
Thread moving to DESIGN area
4 Mar 2005 — 4:10pm
Vendome shares Trajan's sharpness.
9 Mar 2005 — 1:51pm
Stone's SFPL might be nice.