Didone

The typographical family of the didones is characterized by rectilinear footings and untied of an extreme smoothness. Their appearance, at the end of the XVIIIe century, resulted less than one progress in art from the engravers that in the appearance of a new quality of Papier rod, and Encre S with fast drying, avoiding making “dribble” the letters.

Associated as of the reign of Napoleon with a typography “with the Frenchwoman”, the didones were massively used in France of 1810 at the years 1950 for the lawful printed papers form, the school handbooks, and most of the scientific edition. But with the favor of the office automation , the employment of this family of police forces largely regressed, even in France: one of the leading causes is undoubtedly the too weak resolution of the screens of computer, which “gums” or “combined” untied.

Are attached to the family of the didones the following police forces:

millimetre-length Didot of the HMSO (engraved between 1811 and 1823 by Firmin Didot)
the Marcellin-Legrand says “Bulletin” drawn for Monotype
the Bodoni, a little fattier than the precedents, and than one rather often finds in the office automation continuations
the cast iron computer modern , drawn by Donald Knuth and delivered with LaTeX, is almost a didone: from there its great once printed beauty.

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