Trajánův sloup Czechoslovak movie poster
Trajánův sloup is Czech for Trajan’s Column, and the Czechoslovak title of Columna, or The Column, a 1968 Romanian historical drama directed by Mircea Drăgan (1932–2017).
The shown movie poster was designed by Czech artist Eva Galová-Vodrážková (b. 1940). The title is in what looks like a hand-drawn version of Sistina. At least the open joints in U suggest as much. It’s an apt choice: after all, the Cappella Sistina is located a mere four kilometers west of the Columna Traiani, just across the River Tiber.
Together with the lighter Michelangelo, Sistina forms a pair of all-caps display companions to Hermann Zapf’s Palatino. It was first cast by Stempel in 1951. The R and the L on the poster are patterned after the narrower alternates included in the original foundry version.
Secondary text is set in caps from Universal Grotesk, the Czechoslovak version of an early geometric sans serif that originated at Wagner & Schmidt in Leipzig. In 2016, Peter Biľak made a digital interpretation as Uni Grotesk.
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Palatino Nova Imperial aka Sistina: Here is the new link to the glyphs of the Palatino Nova Imperial.