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Bodoni Z37

by Typodermic
Individual Styles from $69.95 USD
Complete family of 96 fonts: $169.95 USD
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The Bodoni Z37 Font Family was designed by Ray Larabie and published by Typodermic. Bodoni Z37 contains 96 styles and family package options. More about this family

Bodoni Z37 Complete Family

 96 fonts

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$1.77 USD

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$169.95 USD

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About the family

A Bodoni can look spectacular in one perfectly chosen headline and become troublesome the moment the layout changes. Hairlines that sparkle across a magazine cover may become fragile at smaller sizes; a graceful wordmark may refuse to fit a narrow package; a condensed substitute may look squeezed rather than designed. Bodoni Z37 was built for the harder job of carrying high-contrast Didone typography across an entire display system.

The family combines four weights, four widths from Compressed through Extended, three optical sizes and matching italics, producing 96 coordinated styles. Contrast changes with optical size so smaller settings remain sturdier while the largest cuts can push the fine strokes much further. Width is treated as a design problem too: the narrower styles become progressively flatter-sided rather than simply compressing an oval construction into less space.

Fashion editorial makes particularly good use of that range. A single issue may need a broad masthead, a tall compressed cover line, a huge collection name across a photograph, narrow designer credits, pull quotes and smaller section headings. Bodoni Z37 can change proportion and contrast as those spaces demand while keeping the same underlying voice.

Art publishing and exhibition design create a similar range of scales. Museum identities, photography monographs, gallery catalogs, retrospective books and art-fair programs may move from enormous wall titles and cover typography to section headings, captions and narrow informational lines. Bodoni Z37 can provide the expressive display layer throughout that system while a quieter companion face handles sustained reading.

Packaging puts the width range under even more pressure. Perfume cartons, skincare bottles, wine labels, spirits boxes and specialty-food packages frequently offer typography an awkward collection of tall strips, broad panels and small secondary areas. A long product name can move into Compressed without looking artificially squeezed; a broad carton front can take advantage of Extended; smaller headings can use a sturdier optical cut while a large name gets the finer, more dramatic treatment.

Beauty and fragrance campaigns can push the family toward its most extreme contrast. Large optical styles let hairlines become part of the spectacle on campaign posters, window graphics and full-screen advertising, while narrower cuts fit naturally onto bottles and vertical packaging.

The increasingly flat-sided construction of the narrower widths gives Bodoni Z37 another distinction from softer, more conventional Didones. At wider settings it can remain relatively classical; as it compresses, the shapes become sharper and more architectural.

Bodoni Z37 is not intended to replace a comfortable long-reading text face. Its strength is the expressive layer around the text: covers, mastheads, feature openers, package names, exhibition titles, pull quotes and other prominent typography that must survive dramatic changes in size and proportion.

Designers: Ray Larabie

Foundry: Typodermic

MyFonts debut: Mar 12, 2020

Bodoni Z37

About Typodermic

Welcome to Typodermic Fonts, a spirited type foundry rooted in Nagoya, Japan, started by the Canadian typeface designer, Raymond Larabie in 2001. Our library brims with 500+ diverse typefaces to fuel creativity in graphic design, advertising, web, and app development. As digital type pioneers, we adopted web fonts and app licensing early, consistently pushing the design envelope. With Canadian heart and Japanese precision, we're your global partners in extraordinary typography. Explore Typodermic Fonts—where creativity meets character.

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