Tom Costello
Ed Karr
AFTER ROMAN In the waning days of the Roman Empire, all over its former dominions, the capital letters that had once seemed eternal started to change. Far from home and influenced by local styles, the exquisitely proportioned alphabet of narrow letters, medium letters, and wide letters gradually deteriorated into several visually naive alphabets where either all the letters were narrow or all the letters were wide. Narrow Roman, called Rustica for its resemblance to the vertical Etruscan runes of northern Italy, requires a single steep pen angle of nearly 60°.
Serifs are heavy, short, and wavy