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Didone

Also called Modern, Neoclassical

The serif class of maximum contrast: hairline serifs meeting stems at a right angle, and a stress that is exactly vertical.

The Manuale tipografico of Giambattista Bodoni, Parma, 1818: the title page and a page of majuscules, ABCD EFGH IJKL, in his high-contrast roman.
Manuale tipografico, Parma, 1818: title page and a page of majuscules, Giambattista Bodoni (type and book); scan via Wikimedia Commons.
Public domainPublic domain: Published in Parma in 1818 by Bodoni's widow; Bodoni died in 1813, and the book is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful scan of a public-domain flat page as carrying no new copyright.
Scaled to 960 px wide; the index picture is a crop of the majuscules. Retrieved 2026-09-09.
Didone: the title page of the Code civil des Français printed by Firmin Didot in Paris in 1804, in his own types, hairline serifs and a vertical stress.
Firmin Didot's title page, Code civil, 1804, Firmin Didot, punchcutter, founder and printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Paris in 1804 by Firmin Didot, who died in 1836; out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright.
Retrieved 2026-09-10.

Near it

TransitionalReverse contrastStressHairlineSlab serifStroke contrast

Vox-ATypI

What it is made of

stressvertical, exactly
contrastextremethe hairline can vanish at small sizes or on rough paper, which is why it is a display class more than a text one
serifsunbracketed hairlines
the classification this term belongs to is retiredde-adopted 18 March 2021AND THE CLASSIFICATION THIS TERM BELONGS TO WAS RETIRED BY ITS OWN CUSTODIAN. The ATypI board de-adopted Vox-ATypI on 18 March 2021 and withdrew its endorsement, because the system divides only the Latin writing system and a later revision put Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and the Asian scripts together under one heading called Non-Latines. ATypI, "ATypI de-adopts Vox-ATypI typeface classification system", published 27 April 2021, read whole (1,136 words). THE STATEMENT DOES NOT DEFINE THIS CLASS: it names only Garaldes and Linéales as examples, so nothing in this entry's own definition comes from it

Where it came from

Named from Didot and Bodoni. France and Italy, the 1780s and 1790s.

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