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For the opera by Francesco Cavalli, see Didone (opera). Didot Didone is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and is particularly popular in Europe. It is characterized by: Narrow and unbracketed (hairline) serifs. ( The serifs have a constant width along their length.) Vertical orientation of weight axes. ( The vertical strokes of letters are thick.) Strong contrast between thick and thin lines. ( Horizontal parts of letters are thin in comparison to the vertical parts.) Some stroke endings show ball terminals. ( Many lines end in a teardrop or circle shape, rather than a plain wedge-shaped serif.) An unornamented, modern appearance. The category is also known as modern or modern face serif fonts, in contrast to old style serif designs, which date to the Renaissance period. Contents 1 History 2 Displacement 3 Usage 4 Derivatives 4.1 Reverse-contrast styles 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links History[edit] Didot's type in the Code civil des Français, printed by the company of Firmin Didot in 1804. The typeface Centaur, based on 1470s Venetian printing. The narrowest part of the stroke is at top left/bottom right, so the axis is diagonal and the contrast low. Bodoni. The contrast has been increased and the axis of the contrast made vertical. Didone types were developed by printers including Firmin Didot, Giambattista Bodoni and Justus Erich Walbaum, whose eponymous typefaces, Bodoni, Didot, and Walbaum, remain in use today. Their goals were to create more elegant, classical designs of printed text, developing the work of John Baskerville in Birmingham and Fournier in France towards a more extreme, precise design with intense precision and contrast, showing off the increasingly refined printing and paper-making technologies of the period.[1][2] These trends were also accompanied by changes to page layout conventions and the abolition.
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