Hi friends!

Today, I’m releasing my latest pixel font project inspired by ancient Rome.

RVSTICA is a pixel version of an ancient roman script, Capitalis Rustica (aka. rustic capitals) which has been in use for nearly a millenium in ancient Rome and after.

A bit of history

If rustic capitals looks familiar, well, it probably is! Variations of this ancient script are still in use nowadays on all kinds of medium.

During ancient Rome, rustic capitals was the script of choice for manuscripts on scrolls, parchments, or codices that dealt with subjects important enough for scribes to spend many weeks writing the documents using this script.

Fortunately these days computers exist and rendering text in the style of RVSTICA will not take this long (:

Features and adaptation

This font project and the original Rustic Capitals script being centuries apart, a few adapatations had to be made in order to make RVSTICA an interesting and usable font. So allow me to make a quick run through!

Pixels

First and foremost, pixels. Just my preferred way of making fonts. The native size of RVSTICA is 26px. If you end up using this font, make sure to input a multiple of 26 as the font size.

Digits and punctuation

Romans used roman numerals and almost no punctuation. RVSTICA uses arabic digits and features periods, commas, colons, semicolons, hyphens among other things.

Extended latin characters and accented letters

The RVSTICA character set is Unicode-encoded and complies with the ISO/IEC 8859-1 character set. RVSTICA contains a few more special characters on top that, such as the Œ rarely used in french, or the estonian/finnish Š and Ž.

To see all the characters of the RVSTICA font in details, visit the dedicated itch page by clicking here!