| Date: 1796 Designer:
Giambattista Bodoni Foundry:
Bodoni founder and printer Location:
Parma, Italy Current equivalent:
Bodoni Classic
See also:
Bauer Bodoni, Linotype Bodoni ITC Bodoni, LTC Bodoni 26, Émigré Filosofia
Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Metal (machine)
Photosetting
Postscript
Opentype | | Famous for:
The definitive Italian modern face. Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting Ubiquity:
Widely used Category:
Modern Roman Stress: Vertical
Serifs: Perpendicular | | Design history:
A new style based on the transitional movement in type design of the preceding century, that led directly to the 'fat face', and novelty types of the 19th century. There are many variations of Bodoni, all by different foundries, of which the newer versions – FF Bodoni Classic and ITC Bodoni, digitised from different sizes on Bodoni's original specimen sheets – are the most respected. The characters in Bauer Bodoni are more delicately drawn and correspondingly this type produces lighter 'colour' on a page of text. Linotype Bodoni, which includes Poster Bodoni and Ultra Bodoni, is perhaps not particularly faithful to the original, but is the most widely distributed. | |  |
