Roman Typefaces
Dublin Core
Title
Roman Typefaces
Description
As defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus under roman (typeface style group): "Large group of typefaces based generally on 15th-century Italian letterforms, that is, using the Latin alphabet and neither black letter nor distinctly script forms. A roman typeface, in this sense, may include an accompanying italic face. For roman as the opposite of italic, use 'roman (upright typeface group).'"
Creator
Nemon, Abraham, 1990-
Publisher
The Library of Historic Type, all fonts published under an SIL Open Font License, 2019.
Date
2019-12-11
Contributor
Nemon, Abraham, 1990-
Type
typefaceGroup = Getty AAT's 'typefaces (type forms),' defined as "Sets of printed characters, comprised of alphabets, numerals, and other symbols, that share certain characteristics of style or design. For the rectangular pieces, usually metal, having a character on one side, from which text is composed and set to be printed, use 'type.'"
Identifier
typeGroup--roman
Collection Items
Bulmer-Martin Shakespeare Press Roman (1821)
A type cut by William Martin for William Bulmer and George Nichol of the Boydell Press (latterly the Shakespeare Press.) Daniel Berkeley Updike writes that, "William Martin cut some Greek and Oriental fonts, but he will be best remembered by his…
J.F. Rosart Great Primer Roman No. 784
A great primer size roman type cut by Jacques-Francois Rosart and reproduced in Johannes Enschede's type specimen of 1768.
William Caslon English Roman (1785)
An English-bodied roman font from William Caslon II's 1785 A Specimen of Printing Types. Originally an engraver of ornaments for London gunmakers, William Caslon is credited with creating a native English typefounding tradition when England…
Grandjean-Simonneau Romain du Roi (1702)
A digitization of Phillipe Grandjean's Romain du Roi type from the book Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand (1702), the first book to be set with this type. The Romain de Roi was a constructed type commissioned by Louis…