Furthermore, kerning was added and fine tuned for better performance. The update to this beautiful font family, Capitolium News, includes the addition of over 250 glyphs featuring full Latin A language support, new ligatures, 4 sets of numerals, arbitrary fractions and superiors/inferiors. Capitolium News is a thoroughly modern newsface, with classic letterforms linked to a strong tradition.Ĭapitolium News for running text comes in the variations regular, italic, semibold, semibold italic, bold and bold italic.Īs is possible with most of Unger’s type designs, Capitolium News can be condensed and expanded without any harm to the letterforms.

For newspapers sturdier shapes were required as well as more characters to a line of text, and Capitolium News has a bigger x-height than Capitolium. Though Capitolium works well in most modern production processes and also on screens, it is too fragile for newsprint. Soon after the completion of this project Unger began contemplating the possibility of bringing the atmosphere of this design to newspapers. It is a modern typeface for the twenty-first century and strongly related to the traditions of Rome. Capitolium also continues Rome’s almost uninterrupted two-thousand-year-old tradition of public lettering. This type design was the central part of the project for a wayfinding and information system to guide pilgrims and tourists through Rome. Capitolium 2 contains 19 styles and family package options.Ĭapitolium was designed in 1998 at the request of the Agenzia romana per la preparatione del Giubileo for the Jubilee of the Roman Catholic Church in 2000. FF More Lukasz Dziedzic FontFont 2010 30 styles from 55.99. FF Meta Serif Erik Spiekermann, Christian Schwartz, Kris Sowersby, Ralph du Carrois and Botio Nikoltchev FontFont 2007 12 styles from 75.99. Capitolium 2 was designed by Gerard Unger and published by TypeTogether. Browse our collection of fonts similar to Capitolium 2.

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