The script of inscription has played a fundamental role throughout the centuries for its monumental presence in the daily life of people. And it made it into the most common things we do now a days, as typing. The script of the inscription on the Trajan column in Rome has been in fact used by typographers as a model for a font: Trajan:
“The Trajan™ design is a serif font with elegant, sweeping curves and due to its Roman typography inspiration is consequently an upper-case only font family. The Trajan typeface family was originally designed by Carol Twombly and released in 1989 by Adobe Systems Inc. in OpenType® format. Edward Caitch was a Roman Catholic priest who, as a master calligrapher, had been researching the typeface on Trajan ’ s column for some time. He was unconvinced that these typefaces were based solely on chiseling techniques, and surmised that the serifs they contained were in fact the result of painted calligraphy. Caitch showed that the letters were painted onto the stone, wherupon the expert stone-masons would then chisel the characters out.”
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