Capitolium 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 the year 2000. This type design was the central part of the project for a wayfinding and information system to guide pilgrims and tourists through Rome. Capitolium also continues Rome’s almost uninterrupted two-thousand-year-old tradition of public lettering. It is a modern typeface for the twenty-first century and strongly related to the traditions of Rome.
Soon after the completion of this project, Gerard Unger began contemplating the possibility of bringing the atmosphere of this design to newspapers. Though Capitolium works well in most modern production processes and also on screens, it is too fragile for newsprint; 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. Capitolium News is a thoroughly modern newsface, with classic letterforms linked to a strong tradition.
When used for running text, Capitolium News comes in regular, italic, semibold, semibold italic, bold and bold italic variations.
As is possible with most of Unger’s type designs, Capitolium News can be condensed and expanded without any harm to the letterforms.
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. Furthermore, kerning was added and fine tuned for better performance.About the designer:
Born in 1942 in Arnhem, Netherlands, Gerard Unger studied graphic design, typography and type design from 1963–’67 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He teaches as visiting Professor at The University of Reading, UK, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, and taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, till January 2007. From September 2006 he is Professor of Typography at the University of Leiden. Working as a freelance designer since 1975, he has designed stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logos, corporate identities, annual reports and other objects, and many typefaces.
He has been awarded several Dutch and international prizes and honours, such as two honorary doctorates by the universities of Hasselt, Belgium and Tallinn, Estonia. He has written articles for the trade press and several larger publications, such as Landscape with Letters (1989), linking the usually limited scope of type and typography with a wider cultural view. His book Terwijl je leest—about reading—has been translated in Italian, English, Spanish and German. He lectures frequently in Holland and abroad about his own work, type design, the reading process, and related subjects.
This package contains:
Capitolium News 2 Regular, Capitolium News 2 Italic, Capitolium News 2 Bold, Capitolium News 2 Bold Italic, Capitolium News 2 Semibold and Capitolium News 2 Semibold Italic
Copyright © 1998, 2011 Gerard Unger
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