Bodoni

[ buh-doh-nee; for 1 also Italian baw-daw-nee ]

/ bəˈdoʊ ni; for 1 also Italian bɔˈdɔ ni /

Giam·bat·tis·ta

[jahm-baht-tees-tah] /ˌdʒɑm bɑtˈtis tɑ/,1740–1813, Italian painter and printer.

Printing. a style of type based on a design by G. Bodoni.

Example sentences from the Web for bodoni

You start identifying the Helvetica on a subway sign or the Bodoni in a Bible.

Mad About Fonts |Malcolm Jones |October 4, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
One of the best specimens of Bodoni's typography is a respectable volume of inscriptions, all written by his friend Pacciaudi.

The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 |George Gordon Byron
The majuscules are especially ugly, being nearly always of the modern type which we owe to Bodoni.

The Art of the Book |Bernard H. Newdigate
To Bodoni more than anyone else the so-called modern-face is due.

The Art of the Book |Bernard H. Newdigate

Certainly not; if we except some of the works from the press of Bodoni—which are oftentimes truly brilliant.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness |Thomas Frognall Dibdin
In this respect they differ greatly from those of Bodoni, whose types to Morris and his followers appeared weak and ugly.

The Booklover and His Books |Harry Lyman Koopman

Bodoni

/ (bəˈdəʊnɪ) /

a style of type designed by the Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813)