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Pompeijana™ from Adobe Pompeijana™ is an Adobe font family with 2 styles priced from $29.00. Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: December 3rd, 2007
Designed by: Adrian Frutiger
Designed when: 1992
Letterform design based on: Pompeijana
Contained in Categories: Blackletter, Decorative & Display, Script
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: ancient, blackletter, calligraphy, decorative, roman, rustica, scribal, script [suggest]
Pompeijana
Pompeijana is part of Linotype’s Type Before Gutenberg series. Adrian Frutiger designed Pompeijana in 1992 modeling it on the “scriptura actuari” (scriptura=writing; actuari=fast) used by the Romans for handwriting and stone and bronze inscriptions since the first century BC; this style of lettering is also seen on inscriptions six centuries later. These early letters were made quickly with a brush held at a steep angle, producing characters with horizontal strokes that are wider than the vertical strokes.
Pompeijana is ideal for books as titles and initial capitals. More sophisticated job work, for instance, stationery and wedding invitations could easily use Pompeijana as well.
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'Pompeijana’ is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
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