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Bodoni is a serif typeface designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) in 1798. The typeface is classified as modern. Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville, as found in the printing type Baskerville, that of increased stroke contrast and a more vertical, slightly condensed, upper case, but taking them to a more extreme conclusion. Bodoni's typeface has a narrower underlying structure with flat, unbracketed serifs. The face has extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes, and an overall geometric construction. Many digital versions of Bodoni suffer from a particular kind of legibility degradation known as “dazzle” caused by the alternating thick and thin lines, particularly from the thin strokes being too thin in smaller point sizes. In Typographic Design: Form & Communication, the authors describes Bodoni’s uppercase R as a “dazzling contrast and vigorous proportions of modern-style typography. The thick-and-thin scotch rules echo and complement the thick-and-thin stroke weights”. Bodoni is easy and inviting to read, it has been used for a wide variety of applications, ranging from eighteenth century Italian books, to 60s contemporary periodicals. There have been many revivals of the Bodoni typeface.