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1740

o o B d n i Giambattista

modern

geometric construct

transitional

by

series

text

extreme

1813

serif extreme

extreme

text

designed

text text Italic typefaces serif

display type

Bodoni

rightfully

text vertical

Baskerville typeface

serif transitional

typefaces

strokes serif

contrast text

1798 designed

varied text

particularly

serif modern

extreme vertical

series

classified

type extreme

display type

versions designed thin strokes

alternating

alternating thick varied extreme

hard

conclusion

typefaces

series typefaces

Didot

strokes designed

vertical

French

conclusion display type display hard alternating thick

transitional

modern serif typefaces transitional

particularly transitional

transitional

digital unbracketed serifshard

hard

series contrast


Bodoni


Content

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Analysis of Bodoni History of Giambattista

Family front of Bodoni Characteristics of typeface Analysis of Bodoni front and comparisan End out


T

ypeface

of bodoni

Bodoni is a series of serif typefaces 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: increased stroke contrast and a more vertical, slightly condensed, upper case; but took them to a more extreme conclusion. Bodoni had a long career and his designs evolved and varied, ending with a typeface of narrower underlying structure with flat, unbracketed serifs, extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes, and an overall geometric construction.


NIT DOO N BO F

B

Bodoni

through thick & thin



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