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Trajan's Column Endures

Trajan's Column was erected in Rome in the year 113 A.D. to honour the emperor Trajan and to commemorate his two victorious campaigns against the Dacians. The letters inscribed in stone on Trajan's Column are model Roman letters. Trajan's Column still stands today and its lettering endures too, as the basis of the capital letters in most fonts. The Romans did not begin to use lowercase letters until after 200 A.D.

Collect Our Non-Decorative Fonts

Rubicon Computer Labs produces digital fonts, specialising in non-decorative type families for posters, advertising, signage, corporate identity, packaging, tables, business forms, titles, headlines, headings, books, body text, manuals, reports, newsletters, newspapers, classified ads, and more. Our font library includes serif fonts, sans fonts, text fonts, and display fonts in Truetype, Type1, and OpenType formats, for Windows and Mac OS. Collect them all.

Rubicon Font Popularity Remains Constant
The relative popularity of Rubicon fonts is unchanged over the past year. Our customers are primarily looking for Realist or Humanist sans-serif fonts, in normal or condensed widths. The only serif font to make it into the top eight is the book font SGaramond. Our bestselling font sets are described below, in order of popularity. We have omitted certain older font sets that are popular but need to be updated.

1. Hilbert Neue. Realist sans serif typeface with a neutral feel. Like Helvetica Neue. An unobtrusive typeface that seems to be everywhere.

2. Opulent. Humanist sans serif typeface with a calligraphic feel. Like Optima. A warm elegant typeface whose curves are soothing to the eye.

3. Frobisher. Humanist sans serif typeface with an informal feel. Like Frutiger. A clean typeface that’s legible from various angles, sizes, and distances.

4. Hilbert Neue Condensed. Condensed realist sans serif font with a neutral feel. Like Helvetica Neue Condensed. An unobtrusive typeface that seems to be everywhere.

5. SGaramond. A serif book font with an engraved look. Like Stempel Garamond. A svelte typeface that faithfully emulates the letterforms of the French Renaissance.

6. Frobisher Condensed. Condensed humanist sans serif font with an informal feel. Like Frutiger Condensed. A clean typeface that’s legible from various angles, sizes, and distances.

7. Uranus. Realist sans serif font with an organic feel. Like Univers. A clear typeface that's legible from great distances or close up.

8. Uranus Condensed. Condensed realist sans serif font with an organic feel. Like Univers Condensed. A clear typeface that's legible from great distances or close up.

Ordering Rubicon Font Sets

Rubicon font sets cost $12 each for a single user licence. To purchase Rubicon fonts, click the Order Now button. You will be transferred to the Rubicon ordering page on the SWREG web site. SWREG is an e-commerce provider.

Rubicon Releases Additional Font Sets in OpenType Format
Rubicon Computer Labs announces the release of its most popular font sets in OpenType Compact Font Format (CFF) for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Mac OS 10.x. Twelve of our font sets are now available in OpenType format. To obtain our other font sets in OpenType format, contact us by e-mail.

Rubicon Adds Plimus as an E-Commerce Provider
Rubicon Computer Labs announces the addition of Plimus as an e-commerce provider for selling our fonts. Plimus worldwide headquarters are in San Diego, CA. We have taken this action to increase our online sales presence through an online store at Plimus, and through the web sites of authorized third parties that are registered as affiliates with Plimus.

Initially, only our most popular font sets are available through our online store at Plimus, but we will add more font sets there if the effort proves successful. To visit our online store at Plimus, click the Plimus button above.

Our other e-commerce provider is SWREG. Our complete line of current font sets is available through our online store at SWREG.

Updated Oct. 15, 2008