Numa is based on Roman letterforms which appeared during the period from the earliest extant examples in the sixth or seventh century BCE until the end of the third century BCE. In the third century there appears to be a revival of archaic forms. An attempt has been made to include topological equivalents of archaic forms. This was an unsettled time for the Roman letter. There were several variants for several letters, and the evidence is extremely scant. J, U, and W must be fantasies as they did not exist until much later. The numerals are also by necessity a fabrication as are almost all of the other non-alphabetic signs included with the font.

 

Also, not all of the archaic forms are represented in Numa. There are, nevertheless, some alternate forms as shown above. This typeface is a fantasy. The I form used in Numa was a zeta in some early Graeco-Etruscan Italian scripts as was the ‰. No single inscription or fragment of writing served as the model for Numa. The letterforms have been made in the idiom of Magma and the weights match the weights & heights of Magma Titling Thin and may be mixed with it even in the same word.