{"id":2853,"date":"2009-11-03T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2009-11-03T20:09:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:09:48","slug":"classical-letterforms-from-ostia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/typography\/classical-letterforms-from-ostia\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical letterforms from Ostia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"ancient roman type from ostia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-09\/ostia-type.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is some handsome lettering from ruins at the ancient port city of Ostia, west of Rome. I don&#8217;t know what period this fragment dates to, although the age of Hadrian always seems to be a good guess.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, here&#8217;s a sample of the typeface Trajan (<a title=\"trajan, the movie font\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/trajan-the-movie-font\/\">the movie font!<\/a>), designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe based on inscriptions on Trajan&#8217;s column in Rome. They might just be the effect of the centuries, but I prefer the softer serifs of the inscribed letters in the photo. I also like their less regular vertical axes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"trajan typeface\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-09\/ostiae.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some handsome lettering from ruins at the ancient port city of Ostia, west of Rome. I don&#8217;t know what period this fragment dates to, although the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}