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Glyphic

Also called Incise

A letter that looks cut into stone rather than written: flared stems, small wedge serifs, and a Roman inscriptional feel.

Glyphic: Roman capitals incised in stone, photographed from a printed plate, flared stems and small wedge serifs.
Roman capitals cut in stone, Jeremy Keith, photograph. CC BY 2.0. Cropped to the inscription. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Glyphic: a Roman marble funerary plaque, the capitals cut with a chisel, their stems flared and their serifs small wedges, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Roman funerary inscription, the Met, a Roman stonecutter, unknown; photograph by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Cropped to the inscribed face. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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What it is made of

the classification this term belongs to is retiredde-adopted 18 March 2021AND THE CLASSIFICATION THIS TERM BELONGS TO WAS RETIRED BY ITS OWN CUSTODIAN. The ATypI board de-adopted Vox-ATypI on 18 March 2021 and withdrew its endorsement, because the system divides only the Latin writing system and a later revision put Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and the Asian scripts together under one heading called Non-Latines. ATypI, "ATypI de-adopts Vox-ATypI typeface classification system", published 27 April 2021, read whole (1,136 words). THE STATEMENT DOES NOT DEFINE THIS CLASS: it names only Garaldes and Linéales as examples, so nothing in this entry's own definition comes from it

Where it came from

Vox's incise class, taken from lettering carved rather than penned. The Trajan column inscription of 113 AD is the usual reference.

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