Drawn from the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome, carved in AD 113. Capitals only, and for about twenty years the face on nearly every film poster.
Download Cinzel, free ↗Google FontsTrajan itself is licensed. Cinzel is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
Set in CinzelLoading the face
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CaseCapitals only: Trajan was drawn without a lowercase.
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in Cinzel in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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Tip. Headline in Cinzel, standing in for Trajan, body copy in Inter. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · Cinzel 600
72pxTrajan
48pxTrajan
32pxTrajan
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: Cinzel
Why Cinzel. Both derive from the Roman inscriptional capitals on Trajan's Column. Trajan itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Cinzel, which is free to use on the web and in print.
Cinzel, on its own. Roman inscriptional capitals in the Trajan tradition. Formal, classical, and led by its uppercase.
If Trajan is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.