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Extra Bold: Didone
Ultra high contrast headline fonts in the Didone typeface class. These faces have very heavy thick strokes and very fine hairlines, making them most useful at large sizes. Their heft makes a strong impact, while their provenance evokes an elegant, old-world feeling.
See also Bracketed Modern Display and extra bold fonts.
The Ingeborg family was designed with the intent of producing a readable modern face. Its roots might well be historic, but its approach is very contemporary. Ingeborg’s text styles are functional and discreet. This was achieved without losing the classic characteristics of a Didone typeface, which are the vertical stress and the high contrast. The display styles on the other hand are... Read More
Though it bears little resemblance to the types designed by the King of Printers (Bodoni) , Poster Bodoni pushes the stroke contrast feature of the modern faces to a captivating extreme. It was designed by Chauncey H. Griffith in 1929, and resembles the fat-faces of the nineteenth century. In all weights - black, black italic, and compressed - the skinny counter shapes are cushioned by solid... Read More
Bodoni expresses the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; its serifs are flat, think and unbracketed, while the stress is always on the mathematically vertical strokes. Bodoni believed in plenty of white space and therefore descenders are long. The M is rather narrow; in the Q the tail at first descends vertically and the R has a curled tail. The italic, like most continental modern... Read More
Perla is a larger-than-life unicase typeface that references 18th-century Didot as well as contemporary and expressive Cyrillic and Greek-derived letterforms. It combines simple and sparse letterforms with a spirit of fluidity. With its artful combination of flowing curves and contrasting lines, it makes a powerful but individualistic statement that easily stands out in a crowd.