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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 11-08-2008 02:01 AM
1. I think the suit may be "Photoshopped" on. 2. Megan Fox showed off her tasty mid-riff in Transformers
quote: Monte L Fullmer Is that the font style that Bobby likes, or the history of the Roman Emperor?
Close guess.
Trajan is a type family designed by Carol Twombly in 1989 for Adobe Systems. It was inspired by the lettering carved into the Trajan Column, a certain sculptural piece made many centuries ago in tribute to the Roman emperor Trajan (his full name was Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus).
Adobe Systems has bundled Trajan in certain versions of Adobe Illustrator. In recent years, the OpenType version known as Trajan Pro (which features a true large capital-small capital character set) has been bundled in with various Adobe Creative Suite applications.
In movie poster culture, Trajan has become the Helvetica (or Arial) of movie poster title design. It is a default, knee-jerk, no-brainer, go-to font when a designer can't seem to come up with anything original. Trajan, despite being a beautifully designed typeface, has become ubiquitous, over-used and even boring. Yeah. Boring.
Typical Hollywood movie poster these days: some "A-list" actor's bulbous potato head all Photoshopped to smoothness with a title set in Trajan. Hoo-ray.
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