I would say Bodoni is applicable in a lot of situations, and it is easy to justify that situation because of the versatility here. It is simple enough to work for many things, but stylistic enough to make an impression. It has many different feels to it based on how you look at it. Lady Gaga and Nirvana have used it in album covers in a very fitting way. However, it is also popular in the music industry. It has a classic and fashionable feel to it, classic because of the traditional serifed roman letterform, and fashionable because of the geometric and light feel from the contrast.īodoni is often used for fashion industries, such as Vogue Magazine, because of it’s class with a modern twist. The increased push between the contrast of thick and thin strokes is the defining characteristic of this style, as well as the lean toward geometric form with more circular rounded sides and more vertical stems. The style of Bodoni, like I mentioned before is modern. It was used in many italian books and publications of the time, and continued to be used throughout history. Generic Font-Family This is a General Font and almost all browsers support this generic font family. Specific Font-Family This is a specific type of font like Arial, Verdana, Tahoma. There are 2 types of font families which you can use. Unlike Baskerville’s great failure when it was created, Bodoni seems to have been liked right off the bat. CSS font-family defines the priority for the browser to choose the font from multiple fonts. With it being so old, designers have done iteration after iteration of this famed font, making it the versatile beauty it is today. That being said, there are many different versions of this font for almost any occasion, ranging from a large style poster face, to simple cold type versions. The style grew as the demand for more geometric and modern type did, so that is how Bodoni evolved to where it is today. Although the font Bodoni is considered “modern” today, some earlier drafts of it are said to be transitional alongside Baskerville. However, Bodoni took said ideas to the next level by creating even more contrast between the thick and thin strokes, making letters more vertical, and greatly condensing width more than Baskerville had ever done. Bodoni was inspired under the ideas of John Baskerville when he designed his namesake typeface. Here we have a modern serif typeface designed by an italian man named Giambattista Bodoni in 1798. This typeface quickly followed Baskerville and it’s modifications moved it’s type style to a new era: modern. Because I did my last “good typeface” post on Baskerville, I thought it only acceptable to my next on Bodoni.
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