Giambattista Bodoni made his fonts by pushing existing typographic ideas to their extremes, so it would only be fitting for this digital tribute to include weights all the way up to fatface. I want Bodoni* to be the ultimate digital realization of his ideas, and I stopped at nothing to ensure this. I built the font from the ground up, using the principles laid out by Bodoni himself in the Manuale Tipografico. To put it simply, I made this typeface the best it could possibly be. Years in the making, this font family includes a whopping 64 static font files and 2 variable font files, ensuring you will have the perfect Bodoni for every situation. Bodoni* is the first ever no-compromises Bodoni family, built for the digital age. Users end up having to mix and match Bodonis, resulting in inconsistencies of design and quality.

Bodoni interpretations either work at display sizes and are impossible to read at text sizes, or are made to be legible at text sizes but look sloppy at display sizes. The Bodoni That Should Have Come Years Agoĭespite the tremendous popularity of Bodoni typefaces, there is currently no digital family without compromises. The result is a typeface that’s recognizably elegant, refined, and remains popular centuries after its creation.

Advances in printing technology during the late eighteenth century allowed Bodoni to design letterforms with higher contrast between thick and thin strokes, and crisp horizontal serifs. Giambattista Bodoni is known for creating one of the first “modern serif” type-faces. This is Bodoni* 2.3 which features a completely redrawn italic.

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