{"id":25553,"date":"2011-02-09T16:50:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=25553"},"modified":"2011-02-09T01:09:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T09:09:44","slug":"bodonis-manuale-tipografico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25553","title":{"rendered":"Bodoni’s Manuale Tipografico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Published posthumously in a limited edition of 250, features 142 sets of roman and italic typefaces, a wide selection of borders, ornaments, symbols, and flowers, as well as Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, Phoenician, Armenian, Coptic and Tibetan alphabets.’<\/em><\/p>\n

My birthday was last week and to my surprise, my wife got her hands on Taschen’s limited edition reprint of Giambattista Bodoni’s<\/a> masterwork, his Manuale Tipografico<\/a><\/em> (1818).<\/p>\n

Bodoni had almost unlimited funding and resources at his disposal – so the details in his large body of types (he just kept going<\/em>) is beyond what is seen in most revivals<\/a> of his work. ITC Bodoni<\/a> comes damn close,<\/em> but a lot of Bodoni’s original designs end up on the cutting room floor.<\/p>\n

My Jeanne types<\/a> (named for my wife) have roots in Bodoni – and I used some digital resources<\/a> to research his Manuale.<\/em> But it is great to now actually have a print edition in my collection – cause I’m not done with tinkering.<\/p>\n

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