Roman Square Capitals
ローマン・キャピタル / 1st–2nd century / Style / Letterform History
Les capitales taillées pour la pierre, aux proportions géométriques et aux empattements, devinrent le squelette de l’alphabet latin et l’archétype de l’autorité pendant deux mille ans.
Proportions géométriques / Empattements ciselés / Composition tout en capitales / Espacement monumental
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- Designing inscription-like titles in capitals · Giving institutions and honors a voice of permanence
- Typographie
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Matière
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Précaution
- The carving came from brush layout and the chisel's work. Don't explain it by geometry alone; observe the tools' traces.
- Pour approfondir
- The Trajan Column inscription / Edward Catich, The Origin of the Serif / capitalis monumentalis


