Eternal Letter (MIT Press Ltd)

Helveticas fifty-year milestone pales in comparison with the two thousandth anniversary in 2014 of Trajans Column and its famous inscription - the preeminent illustration of the classical Roman capital letter. Times Roman still dominate printed matter and retain a strong presence in screen-based communication. The Eternal Letter offers a series of essays by some of the most highly regarded practitioners in the fields of typography, lettering, and stone carving. They discuss the subtleties of the classical Roman capital letter itself, different iterations of it over the years, and the work of famous typographers and craftsmen. The essays cover such topics as efforts to calculate a geometric formulation of the Trajan letters.