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Pompeijana™

from Linotype

Pompeijana™ is a Linotype font family with 2 styles.

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Pompeijana

Pompeijana Roman

Pompeijana Borders

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Adrian Frutiger
Designed when: 1992-1993
Contained in Categories: Blackletter, Decorative & Display, Script
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: ancient, blackletter, calligraphy, decorative, roman, rustica, scribal, script

Pompeijana

Pompeijana is a part of the 1990 collection Type before Gutenberg 2’, which includes twelve contemporary typefaces each representative of a particular era. Pompeijana is Adrian Frutiger’s contribution to the project Type before Gutenberg’. He based the forms of this capital typeface on the writing of the Romans in Pompei. The decorative look of the alphabet is achieved by purely graphic means, placing the emphasis of the top and foot of the letters with heavy horizontals and diamond-shaped serifs. Frutiger completed his typeface with the weight Borders, a font consisting of numerous ornaments true to the style of the alphabet. The ornaments can be combined to form different borders and offer an optimal addition to the elegant Pompeijana. Pompeijana is best combined with modern sans serif typefaces.

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