Hello Pablo, Saturday, October 19, 2013, 7:02:47 AM, Pablo Impallari wrote:
> Adobe, a long time ago, has issued a nicely designed promotional > specimen of Trajan, Papirus and and third one, Herculanum or Lithos, > if my memory is not failing me. The 3 typefaces where described as > an "Collection of ancient revivals" or something similar... Out of curiosity I looked up Herculanum (and indeed it is spelled like that, not Herculaneum like the famous town). Adobe describes it thus: Named for Pompeii’s sister city, Herculanum was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1990 for Linotype’s Type before Gutenberg series. The typeface is based on first-century Roman letterforms cursive that were quickly written in clay using a stylus. Frutiger’s design mixes letterforms that are very narrow and very wide; combined with its simple, elemental shapes, Herculanum is one of the most expressive and individual display faces in the Adobe Type Showroom. http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFont&code=HRCQ10005000 and sells it for USD 29, although the 5-seat license appears to be solely for print publications. The design is very much an 'inspired by' rather than an accurate reconstruction of a first century Latin cursive; and while accented letters and a few ligatures have been added suitable for modern Latin-script languages, the ligatures and alternate forms used in latin cursive have not been attempted. A pity. Or, a gap in the market which a Libre font could fill. -- Best regards, Chris mailto:ch...@w3.org