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Out of Many, One.

Out of many, one.

E pluribus unum, U.S. Great Seal · 1782

Out of Many, One., Quorum

The English of the motto.

"Out of many, one" is the plain-English translation of e pluribus unum. Same idea, made immediate: a country assembled from many parts into one, and meant to stay that way.

Why both exist.

Quorum runs the Latin and the English as a pair, one for the customer who wants the official text, one for the customer who wants it direct. Between them they cover the motto for everyone.

How we set it.

Archivo Narrow declarative, "One" carried into the Fraunces italic on the Union-brick ground. The accent lands on the single word the whole motto resolves to.