1787.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States, the Seventeenth Day of September...
U.S. Constitution, ratified · 1787
A date as a message.
1787 is the year the Constitution was written in Philadelphia. Four digits. No verb, no claim, just a date that every reader supplies the meaning for.
It works the way a good monument works. It names the moment and trusts you to know why it matters.
Why a number earns a place.
Among forty-nine messages built on civic vocabulary, one is built on a pure numeral. It is the quietest design in the catalogue and the most confident. It assumes a literate audience, which is exactly the audience Quorum is for.
How we set it.
Large, centred, Fraunces display at its heaviest weight. No italic accent here; the restraint is the point. Four figures, treated like the date stamped into the cornerstone of a building.