Along with Giambattista Bodoni of Italy, Firmin Didot is credited with designing and establishing the use of the "Modern" classification of typefaces.
Along with Giambattista Bodoni of Italy, Firmin Didot is credited with establishing the use of the "Modern" classification of typefaces.
He is known for an almost complete re-design of Bodoni classic typefaces, the work of Giambattista Bodoni, the 17th century Italian typographer.
This style attracted many admirers and imitators, surpassing the popularity of French typographers such as Philippe Grandjean and Pierre Simon Fournier.
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He first took the type-designs of Pierre Simon Fournier as his exemplars, but afterwards became an admirer of the more modelled types of John Baskerville; and he and Firmin Didot evolved a style of type called 'New Face', in which the letters are cut in such a way as to produce a strong contrast between the thick and thin parts of their body.
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There, it was said, he impressed his superiors so much with his eagerness to learn, studiousness in mastery of ancient languages and types, and energy of effort, that he was allowed to place his own name on his first books, a Coptic Missal and a version of the Tibetan alphabet.
The plot of the book concerns Yambo (full name: Giambattista Bodoni, just like the typographer Giambattista Bodoni), a 59-year-old Milanese antiquarian book dealer who loses his episodic memory due to a stroke.
Giambattista Vico | Giambattista della Porta | Giambattista Bodoni | Giambattista Basile | Giambattista Marino | Officina Bodoni | Giambattista Valli | Giambattista Spinola | Giambattista Andreini | Bodoni | Giambattista Spínola, Jr | Giambattista della Porta, founder of the ''Academia Secretorum Naturae'' | Giambattista Benedetti | Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni |
The Bodoni collection is the largest collection of prints of Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) outside his native Parma.