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Imperija Roman Typeface
Imperija Roman is a display typeface inspired by stone engraved lettering. Supporting west, central and east European languages it contains over one-hundred discretionary ligatures and a stylistic set for old style diacritics. The original letters were drawn from a memorial engraving in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Further development and several iterations later, Imperija Roman has a flowing organic feel while staying true to the rigid constraints of stone-cut letters. The alternative diacritics in stylistic set one were included to give the user more options for a historical feel to the lettering. The discretionary ligatures also offer a huge range of variation and were drawn based off of historical Roman sources and common frequency digraphs in major European languages.


Imperija Roman collected a silver at the 2017 ADC* Estonian Design Awards.

Imperija Roman is available to buy on

MyFonts / YouWorkForThem / FontSpring



Imperija Roman is available to buy on MyFonts / YouWorkForThem / FontSpring


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Lewis is a graduate of Reading MATD 2018-19 and now he makes custom and commercial fonts, logos and lettering for a living. He is on FutureFonts and has won awards for his Latin, Greek and Cyrillic type, and has a website called East of Rome where he sells fonts and writes articles. For trial versions of fonts or to ask a question about anything at all, email him at











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