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Bodoni Script Pro
Always intrigued by Bodoni's original work, I was set out -back in 2000- to examine his work and study 'Manuale Tipografico', one of the greatest specimen books ever printed. Issued in 1818 at Parma, Italy by Bodoni's widow, the two-volume work shows an impressive array of 142 roman alphabets and some foreign ones such as Greek and Cyrillic.
€225.00 complete family
Bodoni Script Pro
Copyright ©2002-2008
Designer: Panos Vassilíou
"Always intrigued by Bodoni's original work, I was set out -back in 2000- to examine his work and study 'Manuale Tipografico', one of the greatest specimen books ever printed. Issued in 1818 at Parma, Italy by Bodoni's widow, the two-volume work shows an impressive array of 142 roman alphabets and some foreign ones such as Greek and Cyrillic.
After a careful examination of all characters, I decided to create a typeface based on the distinct script capitals presented in the book. Matching lowercase italics were later selected and designed to complete the series. Since my intention was not to create simply a digital version of Bodoni's work, this typeface was designed with connected characters and capitals with extra calligraphic elements.
The result was released in 2002 and published in our award-winning catalog/book 'IDEA/Trendsetting Typography vol.1'. Later in 2005 we revived a large number of ornaments and borders (credit goes to designer George Lygas). All this work was left behind till recently when it was revisited to create a complete 'Pro' family. Several new uppercase and lowercase glyphs were designed in order to create a distinct typeface, which is based on Bodoni but yet it stands out on its own.
The new version also takes care of conflicts between neigbouring letters, something that was not included in the first version. Bodoni Script Pro is a 3-weight superfamily. It supports 10 special opentype features including 'contextual alternates' as well as support for both Latin and Greek. Each font comes with 725 glyphs including a large number of alternates as well as 144 ornaments. Furthermore, when you purchase the whole package you get a bonus font which contains 120 frame parts. These parts, when put together, create some truly amazing borders". -Panos Vassiliou
Fractions : Figures separated by slash, are replaced with diagonal fractions.
Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph, creating a professional-looking text with no peculiar collisions among letters. This feature covers the standard f-ligatures, as well as a few other ones used in normal conditions.
These characters are based on the full size numerals. A suggested scale factor of 63% in the horizontal direction and 60% in the vertical yields a good proportional superior or inferior numeral. It is always necessary to adjust the weight of the scaled numeral in making a superior or inferior character. These smaller characters need to have proportionally heavier stems than the scaling provides. Related Unicode characters: Superior numerals and forms U+2070..208E. These characters share the same standards. Advance width : The advance width is proportional and usually the about same as the math sign's advance width. Alignment : The alignment of the superior numerals is unique. The round character's tops align with the round numeral tops. The flat height and baseline are centered on the round top and bottom of the zero and the difference or resulting overshoot value should be evenly
Stylistic Alternates : Replaces non-standard glyphs with alternate forms purely for aesthetic reasons.
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SCRIPTS
1250 Eastern European , 1258 Vietnamese , 1252 Latin 1 , 1253 Greek , 1254 Turkish , 1257 BalticSUPPORTED LANGUAGES
Albanian, Bosnian (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Alsatian, Basque, Bislama, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, Franco-Provencal, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Ladin, Latin, Luxembourgish, Malay, ManxGaelic, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romansh, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Sami (Skolt), Sami (Southern), ScottishGaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Walloon, Welsh, Greek, Azeri (Latin), Kurdish (Latin), Turkish, Uzbek (Latin), Estonian, Latvian, LithuanianNAME
PF Bodoni Script ProFORMAT
OpenType PSPACKAGE
Family of 3+1 fontsGLYPHS
725 glyphs /font
incl. 144 ornaments and
120 bonus frame parts
(only available with family)
PRO FEATURES
Access All Alternates, Small Capitals From Capitals, Case-Sensitive Forms, Capital Spacing, Discretionary Ligatures, Denominators, Fractions, Standard Ligatures, Lining Figures, Numerators, Oldstyle Figures, Ordinals, Ornaments, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Small Capitals, Stylistic Set 2, Superscript, Tabular Figures, Slashed Zero
PRICE
family: €225.00
single weight: €75.00