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Bodoni Ornamental

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Bodoni Ornamental is a FontMesa font family with 1 style priced from $29.95.

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Bodoni Ornamental


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  Bodoni Ornamental Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanian
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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: November 24th, 2009
Designed by: Michael Hagemann
Designed when: 2009
Contained in Category: Decorative & Display
Design owned by: FontMesa
MyFonts Keywords: 1800's, ancient, bodoni, decorative, exquisite, fat face, heavy, italian, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, poster, revival, shade, signage


Bodoni Ornamental

Bodoni Ornamental is a revival of a very old typeface based on the Poster Bodoni letter shape.
Giambattista Bodoni passed away in 1813, this decorative version was created in the 1820’s or 1830’s which was the time period when many of these ultra bold decorated type faces began to appear, the original artist is currently unknown.

The original version of this ornate classic was only available as a set of uppercase letters, today over one hundred eighty years later this font is now complete with a new lowercase, numbers and accented characters for Eastern, Central and Western European countries.

Due to the ornate detail in Bodoni Ornamental when printing itís recommended to use a laser printer 600dpi or greater, a 1200dpi printer will give you the best results rendering the most detail at the smallest possible point size for this font.

Small home user Ink Jet printers are not recommended for Bodoni Ornamental unless you set the font to a very large point size. With Ink Jet printers much of the detail in the letters will bleed together as the ink hits the page, commercial Ink Jet printers such as GiclÈe printers may give good results.

When using Bodoni Ornamental for digital images including web site graphics it may help to add a one pixel stroke fill around the letters setting color to white or grey, this may help the web site images display better on some computer’s.

You will need a photo editing application such as Adobe Photoshop to create your image adding the stroke fill and save as a jpg , png or gif file.

This was one of those projects that once I started it I couldn't let it go until it was finished, I kept a time card for this font which was started on October 27th 2009 and completed just over two weeks later on November 14th with a total of 95 work hours.

I hope you enjoy this old font as much as I did making it.

Note: When previewing the Bodoni Ornamental font in the Windows font preview you may notice some letters appearing lighter and some darker, this is a problem with the preview window and some ornate fonts, Bodoni Ornamental will print normal and not with mixed light and dark letters.


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