2a. Piranesi's Initials - Type Specimen

<p><em><strong>Piranesi's Initials</strong></em><strong> - Type Specimen</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>Research Type specimens<br> </p> <p><br></p> <p><em>(Type specimens are defined as typographic design that showcases a typeface design and its use.)</em></p> <p><br></p> <p>These Initial letters were revived directly from an original engraving by Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s of plate 41 Fig. II and III from <em>Le Antichità Romane</em> of 1756, and their design was extended to include all 26 Capitals. Including a specific ‘G’ that reflects the Roman creation of the letter from an Etruscan ‘C’.</p> <p><br></p> <p>These Piranesi’s Initials were presented ‘in their development’ at ATypI18 Antwerp in September 2018. They were derived from an original eigtheenth-century plate engraving of the 'ONIONIANA' letters identified as a first edition from 1756.</p> <p><br></p> <p>ONIONIANA scan/photo: Jon Melton, emfoundry.com<br> </p> <p><br></p> <p>Research Question(s): How will engaging in practice-based research inform the development of a new primal sans typeface, lead to new insights into the context of the serif-less letterforms of the eighteenth-century?<br> </p> <p>ARRO: <a href="https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/704761/" target="_blank">https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/704762/</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Researcher's Website: <a href="http://emfoundry.com/" target="_blank">http://emfoundry.com</a></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>