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Didot 4 5 6 7
Numbers History Font Anatomy Characters Weight
Filosofia 8 Numbers 9 History 10 Font Anatomy 11 Characters Weight
Bodoni 12 Numbers 13 History 14 Font Anatomy 15 Characters Weight
Didot
The Didot Font Family began in Paris when Firmin Didot began work on a collection of related type fonts. Didot is a modern Serif typeface. The typeface was known for its increasing stroke contrast and more condensed armature, much like John Baskeille’s fonts of the timeThe font is considered a neoclassical font with a similar style. Didot has twelve weights that include Old Style Figures, beautifully designed graphic elements and an elegant headline version.
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Font Anatomy
ascender
typography counter
serif
bowl
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Bodoni
1798
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and is 1798 it was first designed by Giambattisa Bodoni in generally considered a “transitional” font type. Bodoni was a prolific type font designer and this particular font was highly influenced by the work of John Baskerville, a designer whose work Bodoni followed. The font, with its highly recognizable centered “Q” tail and slight hook in the “J”, was widely accepted by printers and can be seen in a broad variety of 1700s publications and uses since the late
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