Designer: Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Canada Type
At the height of the Roman Empire's reign of power, a lot of guys using baxas, olive branch headgear and lined saffron togas told a bunch of people using carbatinas, no headgear and cheapo coarse togas to go and hammer the happy history of the Empire onto every worthy slab of rock, obelisk and wall out there. This led to many rocky symptoms of ancient clipart, intriguing stories and strange messages becoming national tourist destinations and museum dressing all over the world to this very day, which is some 2000 years later on.
Among the constants in all the hammered history of Roman times is the alphabet utilized to caption the clipart or tell the stories. That Roman/Latin alphabet, which was a direct generate of the Greek alphabet, simply takes place to be the same one most of the world still uses today. Records showing what the letters of that alphabet looked like during Roman times appear quite constant in depicting the overall types, but vary hugely when it concerns the slight variations introduced by whoever drew the types. For a random example, in some cases the M had straight legs and two serifs up top, and at other times it had splayed legs and pointy, serifless tops. Ditto the N. And sometimes when the rock slab's length was misjudged by the man with the hammer, he sneakily combined two or more letters together, or enveloped one letter within another. Those people needed to do such things to conserve area. It was either technique it out like that or head out again and run the risk of a sunstroke while searching for another smooth slab (or steal somebody's roofing). It was simply their bloody luck that their leaders would not go for basic minimalist things like Stonehenge.
Anyhow, those Roman letter types happened later on understood as capitals (not to be puzzled with large sums of cash or cities where government building are a-plenty). And the space-saving, letter-jamming tricks happened later on referred to as ligatures (not to be puzzled with surgical procedure or sadomasochistic equipment).
Lo! We're getting carried away with this stuff. Here's the font's genuine blurb:
Jupiter is a take on the Roman alphabet the way it looked in Roman times. It is also influenced by numerous various historic interpretations of the Roman alphabet, most especially the work of Friedrich Poppl, whose rough Nero typeface was a really beautiful expression, though a bit too calligraphic in concept.
Jupiter comes in all popular typeface formats for both Mac and PC, and supports more than 40 Latin-based languages, as well as Greek. The Postcript and True Type versions consist of a font of alternates and a typeface of ligatures, both stuffed with fascinating variations on the main character set.
Jupiter Pro, the OpenType variation, is a single font tied together with configured functions, and is best used within software programs that support advanced typography, like Adobe InDesign CS+, Adobe Illustrator CS+, and QuarkXpress 7+.
Font Family: Tags: alternates, ancient, baroque, capitalis, clean, conservative, delicate, elegant, fancy, favourite, formal, graceful, greek, inscribed, italian, latin, ligatures, magazine, menus, money, renaissance, roman, serif, small caps, sophisticated, swashes, trajan