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Budinger Modern

Budinger Modern

by The Ampersand Forest
Individual Styles from $20.00 USD
Complete family of 20 fonts: $200.00 USD
Budinger Modern Font Family was designed by DC Scarpelli and published by The Ampersand Forest. Budinger Modern contains 20 styles and family package options.

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About Budinger Modern Font Family


In the Didone tradition — the tradition of the great Modern serif type families: Didot, Bodoni, Walbaum — Budinger Modern is a fun and affordable addition with both Text and Display Optical Weights, and some great OpenType treats.

Designed for Western and Eastern European character sets, along with Cyrillic sets for Russian and Ukrainian, Budinger Modern is versatile and functional, legible and readable, and full of personality. Budinger Modern's proportions and characters were inspired by the types of Yakov Chernikov.

Features include:
Unicase stylistic set for the uppercase characters in Display weights
"Dotted Crossbars" stylistic set for uppercase characters in Display weights
Modern alternatives to the Cyrillic De and El characters in all optical weights
"Chernikov-inspired" alternatives to the Cyrillic De, El, and Ka characters, as well as a Chernikov numeral set in all optical weights
True small caps in all optical weights

Designers: DC Scarpelli

Publisher: The Ampersand Forest

Foundry: The Ampersand Forest

Design Owner: The Ampersand Forest

MyFonts debut: Nov 5, 2024

Budinger Modern

About The Ampersand Forest

The Ampersand Forest is DC Scarpelli. And probably vice versa. I am a wholly inveterate Type Nerd. I’ve been in love with letterforms my whole life, and, for 16 years, I taught type history, type design, and typography as a college professor. Type is voice, and I love giving people a voice. A variety of voices, actually, so that they can choose whichever one is best for them for a particular context. And I don’t just mean designers, either! Type’s for everyone, and every typeface has a purpose and context.For me, deliciousness—flavor—is key. Not all type has to be “good type,” whatever that means. It should be designed with thought and care and craft. It should be supremely usable. But it should aim beyond usability toward (trust me: this is the right word) yumminess.

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