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Bodini typeface designer - Giambattista Bodoni (1798)
Bauer Bodini typeface designer - Heinrich Jost (1926)
Giambattista Bodini (1740-1813)
Born near Turin, Bodini was the fourth son of a master printer. He was made the director of the Royal Printing House of the Duke of Parma. He introduced a new, clear, simple type - the Modern typeface. No other printer was more acclaimed than he was during his lifetime. His four principles of type design are regularity, cleanness, good taste, and charm.
Heinrich Jost (1889-1948)
Born in Magdeburg, Germany, Jost was a typographer, type designer, and graphic designer. He moved to Munich in 1908 where he studied under Paul Renner (Futura's creator) and Emil Preetorius. He worked as a book designer and graphic artist until 1923, when he became the art director at Bauer Type Foundry in Frankfurt. Here, he added detail the Renner's Futura typeface. He also joined with Louis Holl to create the Foundry's version of Bodini.
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