Trajan™ font
Trajan is a serif of Roman capitals by Carol Twombly, first issued by Adobe in 1989. It isn’t free: it is a commercial typeface. Adobe Fonts includes it with an Adobe subscription, for personal and commercial use. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Marcellus SC
Its description names Trajan’s titling style · Google Fonts: Marcellus SC
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Marcellus
Flared capitals after Roman inscriptions · Google Fonts: Marcellus
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Cinzel
Inspired by first-century Roman inscriptions · Google Fonts: Cinzel
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Fonts like Cinzel
Not measured against Trajan: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Trajan or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Trajan
- Designed by
- Carol TwomblySource: Wikipedia: Trajan (typeface)
- First issued
- Adobe, 1989Source: Wikipedia: Trajan (typeface)
- Class
- Serif of Roman capitalsSource: Wikipedia: Trajan (typeface)
- Comes with
- Not with Windows 11, macOS Tahoe or Microsoft 365, by their own listsSource: Microsoft: Windows 11 font list , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe , Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Licence
- Adobe Fonts includes it with an Adobe subscription, for personal and commercial use.
- Trademark
- Trajan is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
- Also
- It is drawn from the capitals carved at the base of Trajan’s Column in Rome, and has no lowercase.Source: Wikipedia: Trajan (typeface)
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
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Questions about Trajan
Is Trajan free?
No. Trajan is a paid typeface, licensed by its foundry. Adobe Fonts includes it with an Adobe subscription, for personal and commercial use. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Trajan?
Trajan was designed by Carol Twombly, and first issued by Adobe in 1989.
Can I use Trajan in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, only after you install a licensed copy: neither Windows nor Microsoft 365 comes with Trajan. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Trajan isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Marcellus SC, Marcellus and Cinzel are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Trajan?
FontKind hasn’t measured Trajan: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Marcellus SC, Marcellus and Cinzel.