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(x) vignelli canon serif - OurBodoni {Corey H}

ac54

hi

wondering what the serif in massimo vignellis canon exactly is.

tnx!
ac

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A Bodoni of some sort - my guess would be Berthold's. Bodoni is an acceptable Serif for Modernists like Vignelli.

Could be OurBodoni, which was his version of Bodoni, but with Helvetica's x-height. If I remember correctly, that is.
http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=242867

As Corey rightly points out, the PDF embeds OurBodoni:
http://typophile.com/node/55081

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