Taken from the first-century letterforms originally etched on Rome’s famous Trajan Column, the letters didn’t actually become a typeface until 1989, when they were digitally scanned and ...

Among the first fonts issued by Adobe Systems under its “Originals” program was an adaptation of the letters inscribed on the base of Trajan’s column in Rome.I had a copy of Adobe Trajan on my ...

The Trajan font was created in 1989 by a designer wanting to replicate the Trajan column, a landmark in Rome. The decision came after more than a month of gathering feedback on the four finalist ...

In 1989, inspired by the lettering at the base of Trajan's Column (a triumphal column that celebrates 1st century Roman Emperor Trajan), a designer named Carol Twombly created Trajan.

When Trajan returned to Dacia in 105 A.D., he showed no mercy. The devastation wrought by the Romans is depicted in elaborate carvings on the 126-foot-tall Trajan’s Column in Rome.

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral up around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan's Column. It's a ...

Trajan’s Column, erected in 113 AD, is known for its detailed depiction of Emperor Trajan’s campaigns and victory in the Dacian Wars. Standing at 38 meters tall with a spiral frieze narrating these ...

Jon Coulston, who has died of cancer aged 67, was a leading scholar on the iconography of Trajan’s column in Rome, one of the most detailed military monuments to survive from the Roman Empire.