Didone typeface (Didot and Bodoni)
Tipografía didona (Didot y Bodoni)
- Date
- 1784-1798 · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Firmin Didot and Giambattista Bodoni
- People
- 👤 Firmin Didot1764–1836👤 Giambattista Bodoni1740–1813
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Romans with maximum contrast between thick and thin strokes, flat serifs and vertical stress, cut by Didot in Paris and Bodoni in Parma. They are the style of the neoclassical book.
Didot and Bodoni worked in parallel; Bodoni's 1790 type is contemporary with Didot's of 1784-1791.
What it led to
- neoclassical luxury books, such as the Louvre Virgil (1798)
- types for press and fashion magazines
- Bodoni types still used today