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More than 200 years after the Bodoni typeface was created, it remains ubiquitous — appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair and in books and newspapers. Now Hingham author Valerie Lester has ...
The Museo Bodoniano in Parma, Italy, is a mecca for one of the world’s most enduring, and ubiquitous, typefaces. Meet Giambattista Bodoni, the “prince of typography.” By Molly Young It ...
The Cary Collection is pleased to announce a landmark acquisition of a letter written by the famed type designer, punch-cutter, and printer Giambattista Bodoni, (1740-1813). Bodoni spent most of his ...
At 59, Giambattista Bodoni, a philandering antiquarian book dealer, has lost his mind ... or, at least, his long-term memory. He doesn't recognize his wife, Paolo.
Bodoni Moda is a long overdue addition to Google Docs and Slides. Bodoni, a serif font first designed by Giambattista Bodoni in the late 18th century, is an all-time classic font.
The most coveted of all typographic manuscripts is Giambattista Bodoni’s two-volume “Manual of Typo­graphy” (“Manuale Tipografico”), printed in an edition of only 250 copies by his ...
Giambattista Bodoni designed Bodoni as a more geometric form, with straighter lines and more extreme variations between thick and thin parts of the letters.
In Parma’s Pilotta, the museum dedicated to Giambattista Bodoni, the printer and engraver who invented the homonymous typographical characters, reopens completely redesigned A new look for the Bodoni ...
Hingham author Valerie Lester chronicles the life of Giambattista Bodoni. Chris Burrell. [email protected]. Benjamin Franklin wrote him fan letters, ...
Simon Garfield tells the seemingly crackpot story of Cyrus Highsmith, a New York type designer who decided to live without Helvetica for a day. Helvetica is the Alpine-clear, sans-serif Swiss ...