Bodoni Poster Font Family

Bodoni Poster Black (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Bodoni Poster Black Italic (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Bodoni Poster Compressed (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Bodoni Poster Cyrillic Regular (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 39.00 US$

Giabattista Bodoni – born 16. 2. 1740 in Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy, died 30. 11. 1813 in Parma, Italy – engraver, type designer, typographer, printer, publisher. 1758–66: typesetter in the Vatican’s Propaganda Fide printing works. 1766: the Duke of Parma invites Bodoni to set up an run a printing works. 1768: begins working in the Stamperia Reale. 1770: opens his own type foundry. 1771: publishes his first typographical contribution "Fregi e Majuscole". 1782: Charles III of Spain names Bodoni [...]

Chauncey H. Griffith – born 1879 in Irontown/Ohio, USA, died 1956 in Butler/N.Y., USA – typesetter, machine compositor. 1915: – becomes assistant to the president of Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Newspaper typesetting specialist. 1936: vice president of Mergenthaler Linotype with responsibility for typographic development. Fonts: Ionic No 5 (1926), Ionic Condensed (1927), Papst (1928–1931), Poster Bodoni™ (1929), Textype (1929), Granjon® bold (1930), Excelsior® (1931), Janson [...]

Linotype previously had three design studios located around the globe: Mergenthaler Linotype, in the United States, was founded in Brooklyn, but later moved to Melville, NY, and then to Hauppauge, NY. Mergenthaler Linotype's design studio employed at varying times up to 80 designers under the direction of Chauncey H. Griffith, Jackson Burke, Mike Parker, and Matthew Carter. In continental Europe, Linotype typefaces were produced by the D. Stempel AG typefoundry in Frankfurt, Germany. [...]

Inspired by street signs in Leningrad, an old fortress in Pskov, and, Vladimir Tatlin, one the Russian fathers of Constructivism, Zhitkov’s Cyrillic fonts Nevsky, Pskov and Tatlin truly possess the spirit of Russia. Zhitkov’s first offering, Bodoni Poster Cyrillic, was commissioned by a Russian newspaper in Chicago, and rounds out this quartet nicely.

Though it bears little resemblance to the types designed by the King of Printers (Bodoni) , Poster Bodoni pushes the stroke contrast feature of the modern faces to a captivating extreme. It was designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1929, and resembles the fat-faces of the nineteenth century. In all weights - black, black italic, and compressed - the skinny counter shapes are cushioned by solid and satisfying main strokes. Clever nuances (like the tail of the Q and the ball terminals) help to give this type a simultaneously cheerful and impressive ambiance that's great for advertising and signage.