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OpenType Pro Didone Recomendation?

Dan Reynolds

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a Didone that is available as an OpenType family that includes CE characters. What’s out there that fits the bill?

Thanks!

Kepler? It isn’t as rationalised as most Didones, but is definitely in that classification.

Or Storm’s Walbaum?

I think Kepler is a great font, but not a Didone.
It’s Transitional (as lousy a term as that is.)

hhp

Recently, URW++ has been offering all of their fonts in OpenType PS format in various levels. “Level 1” OpenType fonts from URW++ contain Western & Central European characters, “Level 2” OpenType fonts from URW++ also contain Cyrillic and Greek.

Bodoni Antiqua and Corporate A fonts are offered with the WGL4 character set (West, CE, Cyrillic, Greek):
http://www.urw.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/english/wgl4liste0.htd

More URW++ Didone fonts with just Western and CE can be found at:
http://www.urw.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/english/Kliste0.htd?kgruppe1=1&kgruppe...

ParaType also offers a version of PT Bodoni that includes Western, CE and Cyrillic characters:
http://www.paratype.com/pstore/default.asp?search=Bodoni&fcode=PT_BDN

Note that ParaType’s Cyrillic version are design-wise usually much better than URW++’s.

Adam

[Kepler is] Transitional (as lousy a term as that is.)

Well you know what terminology I prefer: Didone = Romantic (e.g. Didot, Bodoni), Transitional = Neo-Classical (e.g. Baskerville, Bulmer).

Kepler is interesting because it really is transitional, occupying a space somewhere between neo-classical and romantic, but a bit too informal to comfortably occupy either.

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