A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes.
Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813)
1When the toast jumped from its silver box, Bodoni almost screamed.
2There was the most extraordinary expression on Bodoni's very tanned and artificially handsome face.
3Among his nervous children, beside his mountainous wife, Bodoni had twisted and stared at nothing.
4This Bodoni looked like a soldier from another time.
5Bodoni looked at it and loved all of it.
6Very late in the night Bodoni opened his eyes.
7MANY nights Fiorello Bodoni would awaken to hear the rockets sighing in the dark sky.
8Through the midnight hours trucks arrived, packages were delivered, and Bodoni, smiling, exhausted his bank account.
9At bedtime the children gathered before Bodoni.
10Bodoni felt his heart ache in him.
11Bodoni blinked, clearly puzzled, then continued.
12Bodoni withdrew hastily into the rocket.
13In the afternoon a man entered the junk yard and called up to Bodoni on his wrecking machine.
14Bodoni blinked and shut his eyes.
15"This is an interesting work also," the Carabinieri officer, Bodoni, interjected.