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Pompeijana™

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Pompeijana™ is an Adobe font family with 2 styles priced from $29.00.

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Pompeijana"
386095; ; English
386095; ; Western Europe


Pompeijana LTStd RomanPurchase Options
  Pompeijana LTStd-Roman Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroDingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

Pompeijana BordersPurchase Options
  Pompeijana Borders Dingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

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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