{"id":14504,"date":"2010-03-28T13:57:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=14504"},"modified":"2010-03-28T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:55:29","slug":"lowercase-trajan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/14504","title":{"rendered":"Trajan with lowercase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/letraset\/la-gioconda\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/LaGioconda2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t the <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12411\">Trajan font<\/a> have lowercase?<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trajan_%28typeface%29\" target=\"_blank\">Trajan<\/a> is based on a carefully drawn and carved inscription at the base of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trajan%27s_Column\" target=\"_blank\">Trajan&#8217;s Column<\/a> in Rome &#8211; crafted sometime around 113 A.D.<\/p>\n<p>And basically, lowercase didn&#8217;t exist yet. What we call <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lowercase\" target=\"_blank\">lowercase<\/a> &#8211; <em>minuscules, <\/em>our <em>second alphabet<\/em> &#8211; evolved over the next 1000 years (or so).<\/p>\n<p>So what would Trajan look like if it actually did have a lowercase? This is open to interpretation. <\/p>\n<p>Dave Farey and Richard Dawson&#8217;s La Gioconda is one take on this, adapting the 16th Century lettering of Giovanni Francesco Cresci as the companion letterforms. <\/p>\n<p>Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/letraset\/la-gioconda\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/letraset\/la-gioconda\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/LaGioconda1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Trajan with lowercase\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/14504\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why doesn&#8217;t the Trajan font have lowercase? Traditionally, Trajan is based on a carefully drawn and carved inscription at the base of Trajan&#8217;s Column in Rome &#8211; crafted sometime around 113 A.D. And basically, lowercase didn&#8217;t exist yet. What we call lowercase &#8211; minuscules, our second alphabet &#8211; evolved over the next 1000 years (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,127,120],"tags":[67,58,122],"class_list":["post-14504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-fonts","category-typography","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14504"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14842,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions\/14842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}