Trajan with lowercase
Why doesn’t the Trajan font have lowercase?
Traditionally, Trajan is based on a carefully drawn and carved inscription at the base of Trajan’s Column in Rome – crafted sometime around 113 A.D.
And basically, lowercase didn’t exist yet. What we call lowercase – minuscules, our second alphabet – evolved over the next 1000 years (or so).
So what would Trajan look like if it actually did have a lowercase? This is open to interpretation.
Dave Farey and Richard Dawson’s La Gioconda is one take on this, adapting the 16th Century lettering of Giovanni Francesco Cresci as the companion letterforms.
Check it out here.