didot. marissa maccioli
didot. Didot.
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[T]he most important thing I have learned is that legibility For Lisa
and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. —Adrian Frutiger, designer of Didot
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Didot was created using a group of typefaces made by Firmin Didot in Paris in 1793. It was then made into a digital typeface by Adrian Frutiger in 1991. Didot has characteristics of a modern roman-style typeface with its thicks and thins all working together beautifully. It is very similar to Bodoni visually.
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Firmin Didot was born in 1764 in Paris, France. He was from a family of
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graphic artists and specialized in designing type. Adrian Fruitger was born in 1928 in Switzerland. While he was young, he experimented with different forms of typography. He had a passion for sculpting, but his family pressured him into working in printing. When he was sixteen, he apprenticed with a printer, Otto Schaerffli and further studied type and calligraphy. In 1991, Frutiger took the different fonts of Firmin Didot and created the font we know today, Didot. Some of his most famous typefaces are Univers and Frutiger. 4
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Frutiger http://www.linotype.com/370/firmindidot.html http://www.linotype.com/1012/LinotypeDidot-family.html http://www.google.com/images
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Made by Marissa Maccioli. Published by Wild Roar Inc., 2012. This book is set in Adrian Frutiger’s typeface, Didot.