The Cary Collection is pleased to announce a landmark acquisition of a letter written by the famed type designer, punch-cutter, and printer Giambattista Bodoni, (1740-1813). Bodoni spent most of his ...
More than 200 years after the Bodoni typeface was created, it remains ubiquitous — appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair and in books and newspapers. Now Hingham author Valerie Lester has produced a ...
The Museo Bodoniano in Parma, Italy, is a mecca for one of the world’s most enduring, and ubiquitous, typefaces. Meet Giambattista Bodoni, the “prince of typography.” By Molly Young It appears on book ...
Simon Garfield tells the seemingly crackpot story of Cyrus Highsmith, a New York type designer who decided to live without Helvetica for a day. Helvetica is the Alpine-clear, sans-serif Swiss typeface ...
Benjamin Franklin wrote him fan letters, dukes jealously guarded his presence in their realms and his fame spoke to an era when the wealthy and privileged prized something that today seems mundane: a ...
Simon Garfield tells the seemingly crackpot story of Cyrus Highsmith, a New York type designer who decided to live without Helvetica for a day. Helvetica is the Alpine-clear, sans-serif Swiss typeface ...