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Giambatista Bodoni (February 16,1740 in Saluzzo-November 29,1813 in Parma was an Italian engraver,publisher,printer and typographer of hight repule remembered for desingning a typeface which called Bodon Giambatista Bodoni achieved an unprecedented level of technical refinement,allowing him to faithfully reproduce letterforms with very thin “hairlines�,standing in sharp contrast to the thicker lines constituting the main stems of the characters. Bodoni was appointed printer to the court of Parma in 1768.
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History of Typeface Bodoni Bodoni is the name given to a series of serif typeface first designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) in 1798.The typeface is classified as didone modern.Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville,as found in the printing type Baskerville,that of increased stroke contrast and more extreme conclusion. Bodoni�s typeface has a narrower underlying structure with flat,unbracketed serifs.The face has extreme contrast detween thick and thin strokes,and an overall geometric construction.Bodoni admired the work of John Baskerville and studied in detail the designs of French type founders Pierre Simon Fournier and Firmin Didot.
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Digital Digital Bodonis typically suffer from a particular kind of legibility degradation. Personal computers generate different sizes of type from a single font of type outlines using mathematical scaling, while printers working with metal type use fonts whose designs have been subtly adjusted to provide optical compensation for improved legibility at specific sizes for example, opening up counters and expanding the character widths at small sizes. Typefaces like Bodoni tend to highlight these differences of technological application. Many digital revivals are based on designs adjusted for relatively large sizes, making the already thin hairlines very thin when scaled down. Some digital type designers are rediscovering the older lore of “optical scaling�, and subsequently turning out more sensible revivals aimed at pleasing human eyes.Zuzana Licko’s Filosofia has none of the problems of dazzle, andmeets the test of text reversal even in smaller point sizes.
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Bodoni was one of the first to cut a modern face, that is, a typeface which has hairline serifs at right angles to the uprights, vertical stress and abrupt contrast between thick and thin strokes. He took French types, such as those of Fournier and the Didots, as his model. Bodoni was, in his day, the bestknown printer in Europe. Bodoni was born in Turin in 1740, the son of a printer. At 18 he became a compositor at the press of the Vatican’s Propaganda Fide in Rome, and at 28 was made director of the press of the Duke of Parma. His early types are based on those of Pierre Simon Fournier, whose work he admired, but he experimented with these letter forms to create his own. The roman letter he cut in 1798 is what we generally mean by a Bodoni. The contrast of light and shade in his types can produce a sparkling effect on the page. The books he printed reveal a taste for large sizes of type, generous use of white space and few ornaments. In addition to his romans, he also produced a great many script types. Bodoni set out his principles of typography (although stated in vague terms) in his Manuale Tipografico. This book was completed by his wife, who published it in 1818, five years after his death. In 1963 the Bodoni
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