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Trajan
Trajan is a licensed font from Adobe: Complete family of 2 fonts: $55.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Trajan is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Carol Twombly
- Styles
- 2
- Classification
- Display
- Price
- Complete family of 2 fonts: $55.00 USD (Individual Styles from $35.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Carol Twombly's caps-only face after first-century Roman inscriptional letters, with added numerals, punctuation and a bold; two styles in this family.
Free alternatives to Trajan
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Trajan is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Cinzel webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Cinzel.
same classification
Inspired by first-century Roman inscriptions and classical proportions, the same model as Trajan; caps-led with a contemporary edge.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Marcellus webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Marcellus.
same classification
A flared serif inspired by Roman inscriptional letters; its small-caps companion leans toward Trajan's titling style.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Forum webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Forum.
same classification
Classic Roman proportions usable for titles and text; adds a lowercase, which Trajan lacks.
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