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title="Percy Delf Smith">Percy Delf Smith</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Roman lettering</b> or <b>Trajan lettering</b><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> refers to the use by artists and signwriters of <a href="/wiki/Roman_square_capitals" title="Roman square capitals">Roman square capitals</a> in modern <a href="/wiki/Lettering" title="Lettering">lettering</a>, particularly in Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-Gregory_tradition_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gregory_tradition-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Zhukov_Trajan_in_Russia_and_America_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zhukov_Trajan_in_Russia_and_America-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Calligraphic_tendencies_in_the_development_of_sanserif_types_in_the_twentieth_century_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Calligraphic_tendencies_in_the_development_of_sanserif_types_in_the_twentieth_century-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Number_Ten_(Mosley)_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Number_Ten_(Mosley)-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Griffith_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Griffith-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray20058_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGray20058-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around the early twentieth century, British artists in the <a href="/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_movement" title="Arts and Crafts movement">Arts and Crafts movement</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Johnston" title="Edward Johnston">Edward Johnston</a> came to see the proportions of Roman square capitals as an attractive, timeless form of letters, the ideal for artistic use.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196429–31_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196429–31-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHowes200026–27_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHowes200026–27-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lommen_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lommen-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Artists who worked in this style included Johnston's pupils <a href="/wiki/Eric_Gill" title="Eric Gill">Eric Gill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Graily_Hewitt" title="Graily Hewitt">Graily Hewitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Percy_Delf_Smith" title="Percy Delf Smith">Percy Delf Smith</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/MacDonald_Gill" title="MacDonald Gill">MacDonald Gill</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Walker_website_bio_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walker_website_bio-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as <a href="/wiki/Reynolds_Stone" title="Reynolds Stone">Reynolds Stone</a> and many other professional <a href="/wiki/Sign_painting" title="Sign painting">signwriters</a> and <a href="/wiki/Letter_cutting" title="Letter cutting">letter engravers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash2002_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash2002-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roman capitals were used along with <a href="/wiki/Lower_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower case">lower case</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabic_numerals" title="Arabic numerals">Arabic numerals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italic_type" title="Italic type">italics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calligraphy" title="Calligraphy">calligraphy</a> in a complementary style.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith19362_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith19362-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The style has been used for lettering where a feeling of timelessness was wanted, for example on <a href="/wiki/First_World_War_memorials" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War memorials">First World War memorials</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Works_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)">government buildings</a>, but also on <a href="/wiki/Storefront" title="Storefront">shopfronts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poster" title="Poster">posters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Map" title="Map">maps</a>, and other general uses.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196431–35_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196431–35-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray1960_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGray1960-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ross_Map_Roman_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ross_Map_Roman-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The popular name "Trajan" for this style of lettering came from the lettering on the base of the <a href="/wiki/Trajan_Column" class="mw-redirect" title="Trajan Column">Trajan Column</a>, copies of which were often used (in theory, at least) as models by lettering artists.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196431–35_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196431–35-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Italian_connection_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Italian_connection-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray20058_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGray20058-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Phil Baines commented that it became "Britain's standard style of official lettering".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaines200723_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaines200723-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use">Use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Greatexpectations_vol1_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Greatexpectations_vol1_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Greatexpectations_vol1_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="35" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Greatexpectations_vol1_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Greatexpectations_vol1_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Greatexpectations_vol1_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Greatexpectations_vol1_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1408" data-file-height="226" /></a><figcaption>Nineteenth-century <a href="/wiki/Didone_(typography)" title="Didone (typography)">Didone</a> serif types tended to use sharp serifs, with capitals of near identical width.</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Figgins_sans-serif_specimen_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Bold sans-serif typeface" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Figgins_sans-serif_specimen_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Figgins_sans-serif_specimen_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Figgins_sans-serif_specimen_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-Figgins_sans-serif_specimen_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Figgins_sans-serif_specimen_%28cropped%29.jpg/400px-Figgins_sans-serif_specimen_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1119" data-file-height="641" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-Right">The gloomy, ultra-bold <a href="/wiki/Sans-serif" title="Sans-serif">sans-serifs</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Figgins" title="Vincent Figgins">Figgins foundry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Figgins_1845_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Figgins_1845-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arts and Crafts movement artists saw the style as ugly and excessive.<sup id="cite_ref-Nineteenth-century_corruption_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nineteenth-century_corruption-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Below: lettering model by <a href="/wiki/Eric_Gill" title="Eric Gill">Eric Gill</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Trajan_(2959610060)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Alphabet in light serif capitals" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Trajan_%282959610060%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Trajan_%282959610060%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Trajan_%282959610060%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-Trajan_%282959610060%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Trajan_%282959610060%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/400px-Trajan_%282959610060%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1478" data-file-height="1064" /></a></span></div></div></div></div></div> <p>The main source studying the history of Trajan lettering in Britain is Professor <a href="/wiki/James_Mosley" title="James Mosley">James Mosley</a>'s 1964 article <i>Trajan Revived</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley1964_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley1964-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200215_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200215-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and research by Dr. John Nash<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash2002_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash2002-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Clinton_Nash_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Clinton_Nash-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and biographers of individual artists.<sup id="cite_ref-Mosley_reading_list_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mosley_reading_list-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Roman_square_capitals" title="Roman square capitals">Roman capitals</a> were one of the main forms of lettering of the ancient world. During the Renaissance, there was considerable interest in Roman capitals,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShaw201719_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShaw201719-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with typefaces based on them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVervliet200866,_77_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVervliet200866,_77-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in the eighteenth and nineteenth century types and lettering in the <a href="/wiki/Didone_(typography)" title="Didone (typography)">Didone or modern serif</a> style tended to a style with sharp contrast in stroke width and capital letters of near equal width, the opposite of the Roman capital model where capitals had widely varying width.<sup id="cite_ref-Gehlhaar_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gehlhaar-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Italian_connection_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Italian_connection-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShaw2017102_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShaw2017102-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These proportions were copied into <a href="/wiki/Display_typeface" title="Display typeface">display typefaces</a> and lettering of the time, like <a href="/wiki/Fat_face" title="Fat face">fat faces</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShaw2017121_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShaw2017121-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Sans-serif" title="Sans-serif">sans-serifs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gehlhaar_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gehlhaar-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Majoor_Philosophy_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Majoor_Philosophy-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pembroke_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pembroke-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-A_Neo-Grotesque_Heritage_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_Neo-Grotesque_Heritage-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Johnston_and_his_pupils">Johnston and his pupils</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Johnston and his pupils"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trajan_inscription_duotone.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Trajan_inscription_duotone.jpg/220px-Trajan_inscription_duotone.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Trajan_inscription_duotone.jpg/330px-Trajan_inscription_duotone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Trajan_inscription_duotone.jpg/440px-Trajan_inscription_duotone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1980" data-file-height="872" /></a><figcaption>Roman capitals on the base of <a href="/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column" title="Trajan's Column">Trajan's Column</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The use of Roman capitals in lettering grew out of the <a href="/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts" class="mw-redirect" title="Arts and Crafts">Arts and Crafts</a> movement, which promoted individual craftsmanship and traditional styles of art with respect for the past.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 11 April 1898, the architect and historian <a href="/wiki/William_Lethaby" title="William Lethaby">William Lethaby</a> offered <a href="/wiki/Edward_Johnston" title="Edward Johnston">Edward Johnston</a> a job teaching illuminating and calligraphy at the <a href="/wiki/Central_School_of_Art_and_Design" title="Central School of Art and Design">Central School of Arts and Crafts</a> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, and Johnston began to teach classes on 21 September 1899.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196429_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196429-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lethaby was keen to increase students' interest in the aesthetic value of letters.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Johnston rapidly built up a school of pupils very impressed with his work.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200218–19_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200218–19-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/M._C._Oliver" title="M. C. Oliver">M. C. Oliver</a>, Lethaby introduced the Trajan's Column inscription to Johnston<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as professor of design at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Art" title="Royal College of Art">Royal College of Art</a> put casts of the inscription of Trajan's Column as a standard for students to follow.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196429_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196429-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (At the time it was normal to use custom lettering for signs because of the inflexibility of printing and reproducing large fonts before the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Computer_font" title="Computer font">computer font</a> technologies.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mass_use">Mass use</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Mass use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mail_steamship_routes_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Mail_steamship_routes_%281%29.jpg/220px-Mail_steamship_routes_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Mail_steamship_routes_%281%29.jpg/330px-Mail_steamship_routes_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Mail_steamship_routes_%281%29.jpg/440px-Mail_steamship_routes_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1630" /></a><figcaption>Map by <a href="/wiki/MacDonald_Gill" title="MacDonald Gill">MacDonald Gill</a>, using Roman capitals at the top</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WH_Smith,_St_Albans_DSC_2026_(5446730391)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/WH_Smith%2C_St_Albans_DSC_2026_%285446730391%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-WH_Smith%2C_St_Albans_DSC_2026_%285446730391%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/WH_Smith%2C_St_Albans_DSC_2026_%285446730391%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-WH_Smith%2C_St_Albans_DSC_2026_%285446730391%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/WH_Smith%2C_St_Albans_DSC_2026_%285446730391%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-WH_Smith%2C_St_Albans_DSC_2026_%285446730391%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3617" data-file-height="2908" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/W._H._Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="W. H. Smith">W. H. Smith</a> store, <a href="/wiki/St._Albans" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Albans">St. Albans</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In his 1906 textbook <i>Writing and Illuminating and Lettering</i>, Johnston commented "the Roman Capitals have held the supreme place among letters for readableness and beauty. They are the best forms for the grandest and most important inscriptions" and more pithily "when in doubt, use Roman Capitals."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohnston1906269_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohnston1906269-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lettering based on Roman capitals rapidly began to appear in many design manuals as a model.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196430–31_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196430–31-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPayne1921_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPayne1921-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nicolete_Gray" title="Nicolete Gray">Nicolete Gray</a> commented that in the early twentieth century "it was taught in all art schools".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray20058_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGray20058-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Johnston himself generally did not do monumental and inscription design: he tended to prefer calligraphy and many of his commissions were creating documents, like charters, ornamental record books and certificates.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, his pupils such as <a href="/wiki/Eric_Gill" title="Eric Gill">Eric Gill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Percy_Delf_Smith" title="Percy Delf Smith">Percy Delf Smith</a> rapidly secured commissions creating lettering in the Roman capital style that were widely seen, for example Gill created standard lettering for <a href="/wiki/W._H._Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="W. H. Smith">W. H. Smith</a> used on their storefronts from about 1904.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHowes200026_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHowes200026-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200218_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200218-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lettering used by British artists did not always follow the Trajan capital model, often adding changes such as serifs on the top of the 'M' and 'N',<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith193628_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith193628-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith194620–21_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith194620–21-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gill_Tate_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gill_Tate-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and of course the lower case, Arabic numerals and italics which the Romans did not have.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200224_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200224-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Phil Baines commented in 2007 that "it is difficult for us now to realise how fresh the Trajan letter–with its light colour and capitals of varying width–must have appeared at that time...it swept [other designs] away and became the norm within a very short space of time."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaines200722_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaines200722-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:War_Grave_of_Private_D._Bygrave,_St_Mary%27s_Church,_Shephall_(14655876868).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/War_Grave_of_Private_D._Bygrave%2C_St_Mary%27s_Church%2C_Shephall_%2814655876868%29.jpg/220px-War_Grave_of_Private_D._Bygrave%2C_St_Mary%27s_Church%2C_Shephall_%2814655876868%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/War_Grave_of_Private_D._Bygrave%2C_St_Mary%27s_Church%2C_Shephall_%2814655876868%29.jpg/330px-War_Grave_of_Private_D._Bygrave%2C_St_Mary%27s_Church%2C_Shephall_%2814655876868%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/War_Grave_of_Private_D._Bygrave%2C_St_Mary%27s_Church%2C_Shephall_%2814655876868%29.jpg/440px-War_Grave_of_Private_D._Bygrave%2C_St_Mary%27s_Church%2C_Shephall_%2814655876868%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1998" data-file-height="2661" /></a><figcaption>Standard lettering designed by MacDonald Gill on a war grave</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Museum_staff_war_memorial,_Second_World_War_section_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/British_Museum_staff_war_memorial%2C_Second_World_War_section_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-British_Museum_staff_war_memorial%2C_Second_World_War_section_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/British_Museum_staff_war_memorial%2C_Second_World_War_section_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-British_Museum_staff_war_memorial%2C_Second_World_War_section_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/British_Museum_staff_war_memorial%2C_Second_World_War_section_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-British_Museum_staff_war_memorial%2C_Second_World_War_section_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1183" data-file-height="1188" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> staff war memorial, Second World War section by <a href="/wiki/William_Sharpington" title="William Sharpington">William Sharpington</a><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (detail)</figcaption></figure> <p>A reason for this codification to come soon after was the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, where <a href="/wiki/World_War_I_casualties" title="World War I casualties">savage loss of life</a> led to the creation of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I_memorials" title="World War I memorials">many monuments and memorials</a>. The job of designing a standard alphabet for the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_War_Graves_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial War Graves Commission">war grave headstones</a> for military casualties went to Johnston pupil <a href="/wiki/MacDonald_Gill" title="MacDonald Gill">MacDonald "Max" Gill</a>, and he designed an alphabet in the Roman style.<sup id="cite_ref-Musson_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Musson-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of the collective monuments erected by British communities to First World War and later Second World War casualties also used Roman lettering, often designed by Johnston's pupils or people they had taught or worked with.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaines200723_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaines200723-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The style was used very widely, however;<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nash comments that "the English tradition in lettering and typography...owed a great deal to its charismatic pioneers, such as Lethaby, Johnston, Gill and <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Morison" title="Stanley Morison">[Stanley] Morison</a>. However its strength lay in the army of unsung craftsmen and women who absorbed their ideas".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash198913_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash198913-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>k<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>l<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BLW_Post_Office_Direction_Sign_(1)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/BLW_Post_Office_Direction_Sign_%281%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-BLW_Post_Office_Direction_Sign_%281%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/BLW_Post_Office_Direction_Sign_%281%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-BLW_Post_Office_Direction_Sign_%281%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/BLW_Post_Office_Direction_Sign_%281%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-BLW_Post_Office_Direction_Sign_%281%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1333" data-file-height="1108" /></a><figcaption>Post Office sign</figcaption></figure> <p>Roman-style lettering also became used for major institutions such as the <a href="/wiki/General_Post_Office" title="General Post Office">Post Office</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMansell193131,_34_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMansell193131,_34-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and (later) by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Works_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Works</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Number_Ten_(Mosley)_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Number_Ten_(Mosley)-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on many British street signs, using a design by <a href="/wiki/David_Kindersley" title="David Kindersley">David Kindersley</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Hall_street_signs_fonts_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall_street_signs_fonts-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kindersley_street_signs_font_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kindersley_street_signs_font-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on London <a href="/wiki/Blue_plaque" title="Blue plaque">blue plaques</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGibbs2005b6–7_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGibbs2005b6–7-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1275594942">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{width:100%!important}}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{display:table}.mw-parser-output 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mod-gallery-default"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Glorious_Dead_Inscription_on_the_Cenotaph_in_London_MOD_45154704.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Inscription, The Cenotaph, London"><img alt="Inscription, The Cenotaph, London" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/The_Glorious_Dead_Inscription_on_the_Cenotaph_in_London_MOD_45154704.jpg/180px-The_Glorious_Dead_Inscription_on_the_Cenotaph_in_London_MOD_45154704.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/The_Glorious_Dead_Inscription_on_the_Cenotaph_in_London_MOD_45154704.jpg/270px-The_Glorious_Dead_Inscription_on_the_Cenotaph_in_London_MOD_45154704.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/The_Glorious_Dead_Inscription_on_the_Cenotaph_in_London_MOD_45154704.jpg/360px-The_Glorious_Dead_Inscription_on_the_Cenotaph_in_London_MOD_45154704.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1331" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Inscription, <a href="/wiki/The_Cenotaph" title="The Cenotaph">The Cenotaph</a>, London</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:War_Memorial_-_detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3082680.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="War Memorial, Brighton"><img alt="War Memorial, Brighton" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/War_Memorial_-_detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3082680.jpg/135px-War_Memorial_-_detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3082680.jpg" decoding="async" width="135" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/War_Memorial_-_detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3082680.jpg/202px-War_Memorial_-_detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3082680.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/War_Memorial_-_detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3082680.jpg/270px-War_Memorial_-_detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3082680.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">War Memorial, <a href="/wiki/Brighton" title="Brighton">Brighton</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:King%27s_Lynn_War_Memorial_Detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4620043.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="War Memorial, King's Lynn"><img alt="War Memorial, King's Lynn" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/King%27s_Lynn_War_Memorial_Detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4620043.jpg/135px-King%27s_Lynn_War_Memorial_Detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4620043.jpg" decoding="async" width="135" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/King%27s_Lynn_War_Memorial_Detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4620043.jpg/202px-King%27s_Lynn_War_Memorial_Detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4620043.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/King%27s_Lynn_War_Memorial_Detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4620043.jpg/270px-King%27s_Lynn_War_Memorial_Detail_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4620043.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">War Memorial, <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Lynn" title="King's Lynn">King's Lynn</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WWI_Royal_Engineers_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_372980.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Royal Engineers memorial, Paisley Abbey"><img alt="Royal Engineers memorial, Paisley Abbey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/WWI_Royal_Engineers_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_372980.jpg/99px-WWI_Royal_Engineers_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_372980.jpg" decoding="async" width="99" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/WWI_Royal_Engineers_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_372980.jpg/149px-WWI_Royal_Engineers_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_372980.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/WWI_Royal_Engineers_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_372980.jpg/199px-WWI_Royal_Engineers_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_372980.jpg 2x" data-file-width="354" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Royal Engineers memorial, <a href="/wiki/Paisley_Abbey" title="Paisley Abbey">Paisley Abbey</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Plaque_in_the_Woolwich_Equitable_(1)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4451822.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Building society foundation stone, Woolwich"><img alt="Building society foundation stone, Woolwich" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Plaque_in_the_Woolwich_Equitable_%281%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4451822.jpg/124px-Plaque_in_the_Woolwich_Equitable_%281%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4451822.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Plaque_in_the_Woolwich_Equitable_%281%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4451822.jpg/187px-Plaque_in_the_Woolwich_Equitable_%281%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4451822.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Plaque_in_the_Woolwich_Equitable_%281%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4451822.jpg/249px-Plaque_in_the_Woolwich_Equitable_%281%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4451822.jpg 2x" data-file-width="709" data-file-height="1024" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Building_society" title="Building society">Building society</a> foundation stone, <a href="/wiki/Woolwich" title="Woolwich">Woolwich</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Azam_jah_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Foundation stone of London Central Mosque, 1937"><img alt="Foundation stone of London Central Mosque, 1937" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Azam_jah_%28cropped%29.jpg/180px-Azam_jah_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Azam_jah_%28cropped%29.jpg/270px-Azam_jah_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Azam_jah_%28cropped%29.jpg/360px-Azam_jah_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="644" data-file-height="483" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Foundation stone of <a href="/wiki/London_Central_Mosque" title="London Central Mosque">London Central Mosque</a>, 1937</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:-2020-01-04_Memorial_plaque_1939-1945_War,_All_Saints_church,_Gimingham_(2).JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Plaque, Gimingham, Norfolk"><img alt="Plaque, Gimingham, Norfolk" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/-2020-01-04_Memorial_plaque_1939-1945_War%2C_All_Saints_church%2C_Gimingham_%282%29.JPG/180px--2020-01-04_Memorial_plaque_1939-1945_War%2C_All_Saints_church%2C_Gimingham_%282%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/-2020-01-04_Memorial_plaque_1939-1945_War%2C_All_Saints_church%2C_Gimingham_%282%29.JPG/270px--2020-01-04_Memorial_plaque_1939-1945_War%2C_All_Saints_church%2C_Gimingham_%282%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/-2020-01-04_Memorial_plaque_1939-1945_War%2C_All_Saints_church%2C_Gimingham_%282%29.JPG/360px--2020-01-04_Memorial_plaque_1939-1945_War%2C_All_Saints_church%2C_Gimingham_%282%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3148" data-file-height="3074" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Plaque, <a href="/wiki/Gimingham" title="Gimingham">Gimingham</a>, Norfolk</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Andrew,_Nuthurst;_Nevile_Meyick_Henderson_(1882%E2%80%931942)_diplomat_memorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Memorial to Nevile Henderson"><img alt="Memorial to Nevile Henderson" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Nevile_Meyick_Henderson_%281882%E2%80%931942%29_diplomat_memorial.jpg/101px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Nevile_Meyick_Henderson_%281882%E2%80%931942%29_diplomat_memorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="101" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Nevile_Meyick_Henderson_%281882%E2%80%931942%29_diplomat_memorial.jpg/152px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Nevile_Meyick_Henderson_%281882%E2%80%931942%29_diplomat_memorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Nevile_Meyick_Henderson_%281882%E2%80%931942%29_diplomat_memorial.jpg/202px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Nevile_Meyick_Henderson_%281882%E2%80%931942%29_diplomat_memorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2812" data-file-height="5000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Memorial to <a href="/wiki/Nevile_Henderson" title="Nevile Henderson">Nevile Henderson</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:On_this_site_stood_the_headquarters_of_the_London_Salvage_Corps_1907_to_1960.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ceramic plaque, London"><img alt="Ceramic plaque, London" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/On_this_site_stood_the_headquarters_of_the_London_Salvage_Corps_1907_to_1960.jpg/180px-On_this_site_stood_the_headquarters_of_the_London_Salvage_Corps_1907_to_1960.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/On_this_site_stood_the_headquarters_of_the_London_Salvage_Corps_1907_to_1960.jpg/270px-On_this_site_stood_the_headquarters_of_the_London_Salvage_Corps_1907_to_1960.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/On_this_site_stood_the_headquarters_of_the_London_Salvage_Corps_1907_to_1960.jpg/360px-On_this_site_stood_the_headquarters_of_the_London_Salvage_Corps_1907_to_1960.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ceramic plaque, London</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalen_Laver_Essex_England_-_Matthew_Torrance_plaque.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Memorial to Matthew Torrance, Magdalen Laver"><img alt="Memorial to Matthew Torrance, Magdalen Laver" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalen_Laver_Essex_England_-_Matthew_Torrance_plaque.jpg/180px-Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalen_Laver_Essex_England_-_Matthew_Torrance_plaque.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalen_Laver_Essex_England_-_Matthew_Torrance_plaque.jpg/270px-Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalen_Laver_Essex_England_-_Matthew_Torrance_plaque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalen_Laver_Essex_England_-_Matthew_Torrance_plaque.jpg/360px-Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalen_Laver_Essex_England_-_Matthew_Torrance_plaque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2250" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Memorial to Matthew Torrance, <a href="/wiki/Magdalen_Laver" title="Magdalen Laver">Magdalen Laver</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:All_Saints_Church_Farley,_Wiltshire,_England_-_war_memorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Second World War memorial, Farley"><img alt="Second World War memorial, Farley" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/All_Saints_Church_Farley%2C_Wiltshire%2C_England_-_war_memorial.jpg/180px-All_Saints_Church_Farley%2C_Wiltshire%2C_England_-_war_memorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/All_Saints_Church_Farley%2C_Wiltshire%2C_England_-_war_memorial.jpg/270px-All_Saints_Church_Farley%2C_Wiltshire%2C_England_-_war_memorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/All_Saints_Church_Farley%2C_Wiltshire%2C_England_-_war_memorial.jpg/360px-All_Saints_Church_Farley%2C_Wiltshire%2C_England_-_war_memorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2213" data-file-height="1573" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Second World War memorial, <a href="/wiki/Farley,_Wiltshire" title="Farley, Wiltshire">Farley</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Andrew,_Nuthurst;_William_Henry_Abbey_and_Florence_Abbey_memorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Memorial to William Henry and Florence Abbey, Nuthurst"><img alt="Memorial to William Henry and Florence Abbey, Nuthurst" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_William_Henry_Abbey_and_Florence_Abbey_memorial.jpg/180px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_William_Henry_Abbey_and_Florence_Abbey_memorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_William_Henry_Abbey_and_Florence_Abbey_memorial.jpg/270px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_William_Henry_Abbey_and_Florence_Abbey_memorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_William_Henry_Abbey_and_Florence_Abbey_memorial.jpg/360px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_William_Henry_Abbey_and_Florence_Abbey_memorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Memorial to William Henry and Florence Abbey, <a href="/wiki/Nuthurst" title="Nuthurst">Nuthurst</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Queen_Mary_(33453430245).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Memorial bronze, Westminster Hall"><img alt="Memorial bronze, Westminster Hall" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Queen_Mary_%2833453430245%29.jpg/101px-Queen_Mary_%2833453430245%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="101" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Queen_Mary_%2833453430245%29.jpg/152px-Queen_Mary_%2833453430245%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Queen_Mary_%2833453430245%29.jpg/203px-Queen_Mary_%2833453430245%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1172" data-file-height="2079" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Memorial bronze, <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Hall" title="Westminster Hall">Westminster Hall</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Foundation_stone_on_St_Andrew%27s_Church_Hall,_Chase_Side,_Southgate,_April_2023.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Date stone showing italic for small text, London, 1957"><img alt="Date stone showing italic for small text, London, 1957" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Foundation_stone_on_St_Andrew%27s_Church_Hall%2C_Chase_Side%2C_Southgate%2C_April_2023.jpg/180px-Foundation_stone_on_St_Andrew%27s_Church_Hall%2C_Chase_Side%2C_Southgate%2C_April_2023.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Foundation_stone_on_St_Andrew%27s_Church_Hall%2C_Chase_Side%2C_Southgate%2C_April_2023.jpg/270px-Foundation_stone_on_St_Andrew%27s_Church_Hall%2C_Chase_Side%2C_Southgate%2C_April_2023.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Foundation_stone_on_St_Andrew%27s_Church_Hall%2C_Chase_Side%2C_Southgate%2C_April_2023.jpg/360px-Foundation_stone_on_St_Andrew%27s_Church_Hall%2C_Chase_Side%2C_Southgate%2C_April_2023.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Date stone showing italic for small text, London, 1957</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Andrew,_Nuthurst;_Herbert_Cayzer,_1st_Baron_Rotherwick_memorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Memorial to Herbert and Freda Penelope Cayzer"><img alt="Memorial to Herbert and Freda Penelope Cayzer" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Herbert_Cayzer%2C_1st_Baron_Rotherwick_memorial.jpg/120px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Herbert_Cayzer%2C_1st_Baron_Rotherwick_memorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Herbert_Cayzer%2C_1st_Baron_Rotherwick_memorial.jpg/180px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Herbert_Cayzer%2C_1st_Baron_Rotherwick_memorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Herbert_Cayzer%2C_1st_Baron_Rotherwick_memorial.jpg/240px-Church_of_St_Andrew%2C_Nuthurst%3B_Herbert_Cayzer%2C_1st_Baron_Rotherwick_memorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3334" data-file-height="5000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Memorial to <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Cayzer,_1st_Baron_Rotherwick" title="Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick">Herbert</a> and Freda Penelope Cayzer</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Swerford,_St._Mary%27s_Church,_The_Arnold_memorial_plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5424315.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Memorial to Ralph and Constantia Arnold, Swerford (after 1970)"><img alt="Memorial to Ralph and Constantia Arnold, Swerford (after 1970)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Swerford%2C_St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_The_Arnold_memorial_plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5424315.jpg/180px-Swerford%2C_St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_The_Arnold_memorial_plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5424315.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Swerford%2C_St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_The_Arnold_memorial_plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5424315.jpg/270px-Swerford%2C_St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_The_Arnold_memorial_plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5424315.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Swerford%2C_St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_The_Arnold_memorial_plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5424315.jpg/360px-Swerford%2C_St._Mary%27s_Church%2C_The_Arnold_memorial_plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5424315.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3603" data-file-height="3596" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Memorial to Ralph and Constantia Arnold, <a href="/wiki/Swerford" title="Swerford">Swerford</a> (after 1970)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:In_this_house_LEONARD_and_VIRGINIA_WOOLF_lived_1915-1924_and_founded_the_Hogarth_Press_1917_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Blue plaque designed by Henry Hooper, 1976[81]"><img alt="Blue plaque designed by Henry Hooper, 1976" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/In_this_house_LEONARD_and_VIRGINIA_WOOLF_lived_1915-1924_and_founded_the_Hogarth_Press_1917_%28cropped%29.jpg/172px-In_this_house_LEONARD_and_VIRGINIA_WOOLF_lived_1915-1924_and_founded_the_Hogarth_Press_1917_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="172" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/In_this_house_LEONARD_and_VIRGINIA_WOOLF_lived_1915-1924_and_founded_the_Hogarth_Press_1917_%28cropped%29.jpg/258px-In_this_house_LEONARD_and_VIRGINIA_WOOLF_lived_1915-1924_and_founded_the_Hogarth_Press_1917_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/In_this_house_LEONARD_and_VIRGINIA_WOOLF_lived_1915-1924_and_founded_the_Hogarth_Press_1917_%28cropped%29.jpg/344px-In_this_house_LEONARD_and_VIRGINIA_WOOLF_lived_1915-1924_and_founded_the_Hogarth_Press_1917_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1479" data-file-height="1546" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Blue plaque designed by Henry Hooper, 1976<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGibbs2005b7_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGibbs2005b7-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Holy_Cross_Felsted_Essex_England_-_north_aisle_Norman-Butler_wall_memorials.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Plaque, Felsted"><img alt="Plaque, Felsted" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Church_of_the_Holy_Cross_Felsted_Essex_England_-_north_aisle_Norman-Butler_wall_memorials.jpg/144px-Church_of_the_Holy_Cross_Felsted_Essex_England_-_north_aisle_Norman-Butler_wall_memorials.jpg" decoding="async" width="144" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Church_of_the_Holy_Cross_Felsted_Essex_England_-_north_aisle_Norman-Butler_wall_memorials.jpg/216px-Church_of_the_Holy_Cross_Felsted_Essex_England_-_north_aisle_Norman-Butler_wall_memorials.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Church_of_the_Holy_Cross_Felsted_Essex_England_-_north_aisle_Norman-Butler_wall_memorials.jpg/288px-Church_of_the_Holy_Cross_Felsted_Essex_England_-_north_aisle_Norman-Butler_wall_memorials.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Plaque, <a href="/wiki/Felsted" title="Felsted">Felsted</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Michael%27s_Church,_Amberley,_tablet_in_memory_of_Arthur_Rackham.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Plaque for Arthur and Edyth Rackham, Amberley"><img alt="Plaque for Arthur and Edyth Rackham, Amberley" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Amberley%2C_tablet_in_memory_of_Arthur_Rackham.jpg/144px-St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Amberley%2C_tablet_in_memory_of_Arthur_Rackham.jpg" decoding="async" width="144" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Amberley%2C_tablet_in_memory_of_Arthur_Rackham.jpg/216px-St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Amberley%2C_tablet_in_memory_of_Arthur_Rackham.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Amberley%2C_tablet_in_memory_of_Arthur_Rackham.jpg/289px-St_Michael%27s_Church%2C_Amberley%2C_tablet_in_memory_of_Arthur_Rackham.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2005" data-file-height="2500" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Plaque for <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Rackham" title="Arthur Rackham">Arthur</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edyth_Starkie" title="Edyth Starkie">Edyth Rackham</a>, Amberley</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Printing_types_and_lettering_models">Printing types and lettering models</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Printing types and lettering models"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Percy_Delf_Smith_Civic_and_Memorial_Lettering_italic_lower_case_alphabet.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Percy_Delf_Smith_Civic_and_Memorial_Lettering_italic_lower_case_alphabet.jpg/220px-Percy_Delf_Smith_Civic_and_Memorial_Lettering_italic_lower_case_alphabet.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Percy_Delf_Smith_Civic_and_Memorial_Lettering_italic_lower_case_alphabet.jpg/330px-Percy_Delf_Smith_Civic_and_Memorial_Lettering_italic_lower_case_alphabet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Percy_Delf_Smith_Civic_and_Memorial_Lettering_italic_lower_case_alphabet.jpg/440px-Percy_Delf_Smith_Civic_and_Memorial_Lettering_italic_lower_case_alphabet.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2837" data-file-height="3844" /></a><figcaption>Lettering manual by Percy Delf Smith<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith194631_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith194631-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Some lettering artists who worked in the Roman lettering style designed typefaces. Johnston was commissioned in 1915 to design <a href="/wiki/Johnston_(typeface)" title="Johnston (typeface)">a sans-serif typeface</a> for <a href="/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground">London Underground</a>, which it still uses.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHowes200028_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHowes200028-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gill designed several serif typefaces for clients and for <a href="/wiki/Monotype_Imaging" title="Monotype Imaging">Monotype</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Perpetua_(typeface)" title="Perpetua (typeface)">Perpetua</a>, as well as his <a href="/wiki/Gill_Sans" title="Gill Sans">Gill Sans</a> sans-serif typeface.<sup id="cite_ref-Eric_Gill_and_the_Cockerel_Press_Upper_&_Lower_Case_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eric_Gill_and_the_Cockerel_Press_Upper_&_Lower_Case-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other designers who created typefaces in the style included <a href="/wiki/Reynolds_Stone" title="Reynolds Stone">Reynolds Stone</a><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and (more loosely) <a href="/wiki/Rampant_Lions_Press" title="Rampant Lions Press">Will Carter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other designers such as Delf Smith created lettering manuals,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith194621_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelf_Smith194621-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or models for their students and assistants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash198914_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash198914-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the United States, <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Goudy" title="Frederic Goudy">Frederic Goudy</a> also designed <a href="/wiki/List_of_typefaces_designed_by_Frederic_Goudy" title="List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy">several typefaces</a> based on Roman capitals.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other typefaces based on the style have been published as digital fonts (see below). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_other_countries">In other countries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: In other countries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Strzelno_tablica_pamiatkowa_Albert_A_Michelson_2017_03_27_054.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Strzelno_tablica_pamiatkowa_Albert_A_Michelson_2017_03_27_054.jpg/220px-Strzelno_tablica_pamiatkowa_Albert_A_Michelson_2017_03_27_054.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Strzelno_tablica_pamiatkowa_Albert_A_Michelson_2017_03_27_054.jpg/330px-Strzelno_tablica_pamiatkowa_Albert_A_Michelson_2017_03_27_054.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Strzelno_tablica_pamiatkowa_Albert_A_Michelson_2017_03_27_054.jpg/440px-Strzelno_tablica_pamiatkowa_Albert_A_Michelson_2017_03_27_054.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2117" data-file-height="2962" /></a><figcaption>Plaque commemorating the birthplace of Nobel laureate <a href="/wiki/Albert_A._Michelson" title="Albert A. Michelson">Albert Michelson</a> in <a href="/wiki/Strzelno" title="Strzelno">Strzelno</a>, Poland</figcaption></figure> <p>Roman capitals were widely used throughout the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>, and the property of no designer or country. The wide use of Roman capitals as a "house style" dominating design in the first half of the twentieth century was limited to the UK; Nicolete Gray commented in 1960 that "it has been a purely English movement, and one sees no traces of it on the Continent. One does, however, see many examples in [the] U.S.A. where apart from English influence the work of the letter carver <a href="/wiki/John_Howard_Benson" title="John Howard Benson">John Howard Benson</a> has been important."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray196013_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGray196013-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>m<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, other artists in the previous century had followed similar directions. In 1846 printer Louis Perrin in <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a> introduced his "Caractères Augustaux" typeface, based on Roman capitals in local collections, and added a lower case in a complementary style inspired by old-style serif typefaces from before the nineteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-Ovink_I_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ovink_I-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Typographically_Speaking:_The_Art_of_Matthew_Carter_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Typographically_Speaking:_The_Art_of_Matthew_Carter-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other typefaces reproducing Roman capitals were produced in France in the nineteenth century, for instance for scholarly publications.<sup id="cite_ref-Mazé_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mazé-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the twentieth century there was also interest in Roman capitals in other countries, including Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-Zhukov_Trajan_in_Russia_and_America_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zhukov_Trajan_in_Russia_and_America-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_situation">Modern situation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Modern situation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sign,_Wallace_Park,_Rasharkin_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1455775_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Sign%2C_Wallace_Park%2C_Rasharkin_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1455775_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Sign%2C_Wallace_Park%2C_Rasharkin_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1455775_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Sign%2C_Wallace_Park%2C_Rasharkin_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1455775_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Sign%2C_Wallace_Park%2C_Rasharkin_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1455775_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Sign%2C_Wallace_Park%2C_Rasharkin_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1455775_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Sign%2C_Wallace_Park%2C_Rasharkin_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1455775_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="597" data-file-height="185" /></a><figcaption>Street sign using lettering by <a href="/wiki/David_Kindersley" title="David Kindersley">David Kindersley</a>, Northern Ireland</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Yannedis_Brass_Foundry,_Theobalds_Road,_London,_Trajan-style_lettering.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Yannedis_Brass_Foundry%2C_Theobalds_Road%2C_London%2C_Trajan-style_lettering.jpg/220px-Yannedis_Brass_Foundry%2C_Theobalds_Road%2C_London%2C_Trajan-style_lettering.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="318" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Yannedis_Brass_Foundry%2C_Theobalds_Road%2C_London%2C_Trajan-style_lettering.jpg/330px-Yannedis_Brass_Foundry%2C_Theobalds_Road%2C_London%2C_Trajan-style_lettering.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Yannedis_Brass_Foundry%2C_Theobalds_Road%2C_London%2C_Trajan-style_lettering.jpg/440px-Yannedis_Brass_Foundry%2C_Theobalds_Road%2C_London%2C_Trajan-style_lettering.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1625" data-file-height="2348" /></a><figcaption>Business sign of Yannedis Brass Foundry, London, in 2023<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200225_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200225-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Examples of Roman-style lettering can be seen in many places across Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash2002''passim''_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash2002''passim''-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kindersley's street sign font is one of the most common designs for street signs in Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-Hall_street_signs_fonts_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hall_street_signs_fonts-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Use of the Trajan style of lettering has declined somewhat due to changing tastes, with a desire for new styles of lettering. Additionally, custom lettering and signwriting in general has declined in use due to the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Phototypesetting" title="Phototypesetting">phototypesetting</a> and <a href="/wiki/Desktop_publishing" title="Desktop publishing">desktop publishing</a>, making it possible to print from a computer font at any size.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAstbury36_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAstbury36-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Not_a_font2_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Not_a_font2-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Misery_of_Edwin_Drood2_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Misery_of_Edwin_Drood2-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Golden_Age_of_Hand_Lettering_in_American_Advertising2_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Golden_Age_of_Hand_Lettering_in_American_Advertising2-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, some lettering artists who do create artistic work have switched to other more expressive styles, including sans-serifs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196435_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196435-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200226–31_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200226–31-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among historians of lettering, Gray and Mosley both were interested in other styles of lettering, with Mosley particularly arguing for the importance and beauty of the "vernacular" lettering styles that Trajan-style lettering tended to replace.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196349–52_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196349–52-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Working_Letters_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Working_Letters-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-English_vernacular_(2006)_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-English_vernacular_(2006)-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>o<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among digital fonts, <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Systems">Adobe Systems</a>' digital typeface <a href="/wiki/Trajan_(typeface)" title="Trajan (typeface)">Trajan</a> by <a href="/wiki/Carol_Twombly" title="Carol Twombly">Carol Twombly</a> is one of its most popular typefaces.<sup id="cite_ref-Trajan_3_Pro_specimen_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trajan_3_Pro_specimen-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Riggs_9_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Riggs_9-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yp_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yp-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several digital fonts specifically based on use of Trajan lettering by Arts and Crafts movement artists have also been published.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ross_Map_Roman_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ross_Map_Roman-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kindersley_street_signs_font_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kindersley_street_signs_font-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Trajan" was often used as a shorthand for the style of lettering, or at least the capitals, especially later on, see for example Nash, who says that "what was beginning to be called the 'Trajan letter' [became] a basic form to be taught to art schools",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200222_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200222-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nicolete_Gray" title="Nicolete Gray">Nicolete Gray</a>, who comments that "Trajan is now also a trade term"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray196013_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGray196013-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "to avoid confusion, I shall refer to this letter as 'Trajan'".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray20058_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGray20058-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, especially by those who introduced the style, the more accurate term "Roman lettering" or similar was used, for example by Johnston (Roman capitals),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJohnston1906268–269_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJohnston1906268–269-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Evetts ("Roman Lettering"),<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Delf Smith, who called his workshop the Roman Lettering Company,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200219_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200219-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Lubell, who describes the style as "the revival of the classic Roman Inscriptional capitals in early twentieth century England"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELubell201022_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELubell201022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "adherence to a Roman exemplar",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELubell201025_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELubell201025-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although this can be confused with Roman capitals in general or with <a href="/wiki/Roman_type" title="Roman type">Roman type</a>. Nash describes it as the "Johnston-Gill tradition".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200227_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200227-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Percy Delf Smith was born Percy John Smith, taking <a href="/wiki/Marion_Delf-Smith" title="Marion Delf-Smith">his wife</a>'s surname of Delf after his marriage. For consistency, this article refers to him as Delf Smith throughout.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Categorising the artists who worked in the Roman lettering style as Arts and Crafts movement is of course a simplification, as they came later than early figures in that trend such as <a href="/wiki/William_Morris" title="William Morris">William Morris</a> who were very interested in medieval art: Nash comments that "Gill, who spent much of his life scorning that very movement and considered himself nothing if not forward-looking, would have been most irritated."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200226_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200226-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lethaby had written in an education report shortly before meeting Johnston for the first time that students' lettering was "almost without exception bad. Such students as endeavour to apply lettering harmoniously to their designs seem to endeavour to invent new and contorted forms out of their heads."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKeeble23_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKeeble23-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Johnston was offered the job on 11 April 1898, but because of Johnston's lack of confidence and difficulties in starting the class it began the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-Howes_first_class_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howes_first_class-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Johnston's teaching notes have survived: pupils present on 21 September included <a href="/wiki/Noel_Rooke" title="Noel Rooke">Noel Rooke</a> and <a href="/wiki/Florence_Kingsford_Cockerell" title="Florence Kingsford Cockerell">Florence Kingsford Cockerell</a>, with <a href="/wiki/T._J._Cobden-Sanderson" title="T. J. Cobden-Sanderson">T. J. Cobden-Sanderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Graily_Hewitt" title="Graily Hewitt">Graily Hewitt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Percy_Delf_Smith" title="Percy Delf Smith">Percy Delf Smith</a> taking classes with him from 1900 and <a href="/wiki/Eric_Gill" title="Eric Gill">Eric Gill</a> from 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-Howes_first_class_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howes_first_class-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Trajan Column inscription was accessible in London because of a cast in the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>, which had been presented by <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Napoleon III</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196349_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196349-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Mosley's view, it became a model as the "sole antique inscription of which casts were readily available" in London.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196349_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196349-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mosley notes that this was the recollection of Oliver, but cautioned that another pupil at the Central School, A. H. Verstage, "never heard Lethaby refer to the Trajan inscription".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMosley196430_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMosley196430-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example <a href="/wiki/Plotter" title="Plotter">plotters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wide-format_printer" title="Wide-format printer">wide-format printers</a> and <a href="/wiki/CNC_machining" class="mw-redirect" title="CNC machining">CNC machining</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Not_a_font2_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Not_a_font2-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gill commented that "while we may remember Trajan lovingly in the museum, we must forget all about him in the workshop."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200224_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200224-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGill193658_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGill193658-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that art schools were dominated by "Trajan snobbery".<sup id="cite_ref-Gill_Tate_72-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gill_Tate-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Max Gill was Eric Gill's brother, and later married Johnston's daughter, although the commission may have came from past work he had done for prominent architect <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Lutyens" title="Edwin Lutyens">Edwin Lutyens</a>, himself to design many First World War memorials.<sup id="cite_ref-Musson_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Musson-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nash has highlighted as a later illustration of the diversity of the style <i>Modern Lettering and Calligraphy</i> (1954), which shows lettering work by a huge range of artists such as <a href="/wiki/William_Sharpington" title="William Sharpington">William Sharpington</a>, many little-known.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200226_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200226-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Not everyone was impressed by the academic training of British lettering around this time. When graphic designer Becky Astbury interviewed her father George Astbury, a successful Liverpool signwriter who began his career in 1957, he commented "I was asked in the past 'are you going to night school?' and my answer was 'what the bleeding hell for'...[you'd get] taught how to create serifs with a compass. It's best to judge it by eye and get it done quickly."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAstbury33_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAstbury33-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-105"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-105">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">American writer John Nash also concurs, following James Mosley, writing that "The Roman inscriptional capital thrived particularly during three periods: in the Empire of the second century AD; in sixteenth century Italy (principally Rome); and in early twentieth century England".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200211_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200211-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-119">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nash's article on the career of <a href="/wiki/Rampant_Lions_Press" title="Rampant Lions Press">Will Carter</a> is an example of this trend: born in 1912, while his work closely followed the Johnston-Gill style he had been brought up on into his fifties, he also experimented with blunter and bolder styles, commenting in 1982 that "the cut off serif, which was extensively used in what James Mosley so aptly calls the 'English Vernacular' period...has become a great feature of my work because it never disappears from sight as soon as you stand away from it".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200736_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200736-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An interesting reading list illustrating what books on lettering twentieth-century lettering artists used is a catalogue of the books owned by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Harvey_(lettering_artist)" title="Michael Harvey (lettering artist)">Michael Harvey</a>, which was listed for sale as a group after his 2013 death.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-127">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mosley also argues that Trajan lettering has been used in historically inappropriate places, such as on the eighteenth-century ship <a href="/wiki/HMS_Victory" title="HMS Victory">HMS <i>Victory</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-A_British_National_Letter_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A_British_National_Letter-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mosley_Victory_2007_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mosley_Victory_2007-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_lettering&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENash200222-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENash200222_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNash2002">Nash 2002</a>, p. 22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGray196013-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray196013_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGray196013_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGray1960">Gray 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 August</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adissertation&rft.title=Have+Brush+Will+Travel%3A+the+Past%2C+Present+and+Future+of+Signwriting&rft.aulast=Astbury&rft.aufirst=Becky&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fissuu.com%2Fbeckyastbury%2Fdocs%2Fbecky_astbury&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoman+lettering" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBaines2007" class="citation book cs1">Baines, Phil (2007). "Changing the World". In Clayton, Ewan (ed.). <i>Edward Johnston: Lettering and Life</i>. Ditchling Museum. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780951622483" title="Special:BookSources/9780951622483"><bdi>9780951622483</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Changing+the+World&rft.btitle=Edward+Johnston%3A+Lettering+and+Life&rft.pub=Ditchling+Museum&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=9780951622483&rft.aulast=Baines&rft.aufirst=Phil&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoman+lettering" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBartram1986" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Bartram_(design_writer)" title="Alan Bartram (design writer)">Bartram, Alan</a> (1986). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/englishlettering0000bart"><i>The English Lettering Tradition from 1700 to the present day</i></a> (1st ed.). Lund Humphries. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780853315124" title="Special:BookSources/9780853315124"><bdi>9780853315124</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+English+Lettering+Tradition+from+1700+to+the+present+day&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Lund+Humphries&rft.date=1986&rft.isbn=9780853315124&rft.aulast=Bartram&rft.aufirst=Alan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fenglishlettering0000bart&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoman+lettering" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarter2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Carter_(typographer)" title="Harry Carter (typographer)">Carter, Harry</a> (2008). <i>A View of Early Typography Up to About 1600</i>. 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London: <a href="/wiki/A_%26_C_Black" title="A & C Black">Adam & Charles Black</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lettering%3A+a+handbook+of+modern+alphabets&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Adam+%26+Charles+Black&rft.date=1936&rft.aulast=Delf+Smith&rft.aufirst=Percy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DxPQgAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoman+lettering" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDelf_Smith1946" class="citation book cs1">Delf Smith, Percy (1946). <i>Civic and Memorial Lettering</i>. London: <a href="/wiki/A_%26_C_Black" title="A & C Black">Adam & Charles Black</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Civic+and+Memorial+Lettering&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Adam+%26+Charles+Black&rft.date=1946&rft.aulast=Delf+Smith&rft.aufirst=Percy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARoman+lettering" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGill1936" class="citation book cs1">Gill, Eric (1936). <i>An Essay on Typography</i> (2nd ed.). 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London: Hyphen Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">5–</span>16. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780907259299" title="Special:BookSources/9780907259299"><bdi>9780907259299</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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