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Trajan Title
A typeface designed by Frederic Goudy in 1930. D.J.R. Bruckner: The face derives from an inscription at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome, which Goudy had seen twenty years earlier. He had made some letters based on it for the Limited Editions Club Rip Van Winkle. Later he was asked to design a capital font for a list of subscribers to the building of the Community House in Forest Hills Gardens, and he made the Trajan. Mac McGrew: Trajan Title was designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1930 to fulfill a commission to print a list of subscribers to the building of the community house in his old home town of Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island. The previous year, Goudy had lettered the principal line on the title page of a limited edition of Rip Van Winkle, for which he had designed the typeface Kaatskill (q. v.). Now he completed that alphabet, feeling that it would be ideal for this purpose. Goudy calls this one of his favorite designs, and it is indeed an impressive inscriptional style of letter. It is based on letters inscribed at the base of the Trajan Column at Rome, erected about 114 A.D., but not copied slavishly. He cut several sizes, and states that it has been widely used. English and Continental rights were sold to the English Monotype Company. No digital versions are known, but compare with LTC Form Title (Lanston), which is based on Goudy's other Trajan typeface, Forum Title (1911). |
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file name: Frederic Goudy Trajan Title 1930
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