Comments on: Tattoo Font question Latin language experts?

By: Bermudaful

Bermudaful — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:50:52 +0000

i don’t know if they used any cursive
as far as i know they had no calligraphy tradition
most of the preserved latin writing was written on wax covered tablets so it was very simple lines

a very detailed website:
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/tablets/TVI-4-3.shtml

By: Sp Lit

Sp Lit — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:50:52 +0000

I don’t know so much about the type of cursive they used but you could pick out a design from fonts online or through out some books they should have in the shop for lettering. I have a latin phrase on my chest and its just cursive with the I’s dotted differently.

By: dollhaus

dollhaus — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:50:52 +0000

Well, you strike out on that one. Classic Latin was written in all capital letters using our current alphabet – but no J, no U, no W. There was no punctuation, and there were no word separations.

Take a Latin saying like:

Audentes Fortuna Juvat = Fortune favors the bold.

In written Latin of the classic time, that would be:

AVDENTESFORTVNAIVVAT.

If you want cursive, go for it – but there’s nothing you can use as a model.