Bodoni is a small, independent type design company, inspired by Giambattista Bodoni's dedication and drive to create unique types for his time. We believe a typeface is an functional aesthetic object, designed to signify rather than represent meaning, emotion and belief. Our types are not the tired revivals of standard classics, nor smudged, degraded letterforms missing half the character set.
Typefaces are transcendent as well as historical and cultural.
A typeface carries information not only about the text it represents but about the designer who uses them and about culture, beliefs, and commentary about the medium of typography itself. But don't expect to make any money off them. Too bad we closed the plant, your typefaces would look very nice in our catalog. If you're going to sell those types to anybody, sell them to us. Over the summer of 2000 the International Typeface Corp.