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Giambattista Bodoni

• 1740-1813
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• Milestones in his life: Duke of Parma, having established, about 1760, a printing-house on the model of those in Paris, Madrid and Turin, Bodoni was placed at the head of this establishment, which he soon rendered the first of the kind in Europe.
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• Is he attached to some art movement or style: Giambattista Bodoni achieved an unprecedented level of technical refinement, allowing him to faithfully reproduce letterforms with very thin "hairlines", standing in sharp contrast to the thicker lines constituting the main stems of the characters. His printing reflected an aesthetic of plain, unadorned style, combined with purity of materials.
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Font(s) designed by Giambattista Bodoni

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  Bodoni Poster
  Bodoni Poster Compressed
  ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two
  ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two (EF)
  ITC Bodoni Six
  ITC Bodoni Six (EF)
  Bodoni TS
  ITC Bodoni Twelve
  ITC Bodoni Twelve (EF)
  Linotype Gianotten

  ATF Bodoni
  EF Bauer Bodoni
  Bauer Bodoni
  Bauer Bodoni (BT)
  Bauer Bodoni (URW)
  EF Bodoni
  Bodoni
  Bodoni Antiqua
  Bodoni Classico
  ITC Bodoni Ornaments

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