How would you classify Bodoni and Didot? What's the narrowest classification? Many sources label them only as modern. Like here:
http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/type_basics/mode...
But "modern" is a quite wide classification. Today many new fonts are inspired by Bodoni and to label them all as modern is just blunt.
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Didone.
Thanks! Never heard that term before.
I actually first thought you were joking :-), as Didone almost sounds like a wordplay on Bodoni and Didot combined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didone_(typography)
Didone almost sounds like a wordplay on Bodoni and Didot combined
Because it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox-ATypI_classification
Old Style is the other side of the coin.
It too has its subdivisions, e.g. Venetian—and alternative, Antiqua.
Fun fact, thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox-ATypI_classification#Didone
I distinguish between three variants of the didone: Modern, Scotch (i.e. Scotch Roman), and Scotch Modern.
See page 5 of the Modern Suite PDF:
Thanks Nick!
I really appreciate deeper knowledge about this subject. As I am a bit of a classist myself :)
And Scotch modern was really beautiful! Would love to use it for some future project.
http://shinntype.com/typefaces/scotch-modern/
Thanks for the kind words, Charles.
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