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.
5Very late in the night Bodoni opened his eyes.
6MANY nights Fiorello Bodoni would awaken to hear the rockets sighing in the dark sky.
7Through the midnight hours trucks arrived, packages were delivered, and Bodoni, smiling, exhausted his bank account.
8At bedtime the children gathered before Bodoni.
9In the afternoon a man entered the junk yard and called up to Bodoni on his wrecking machine.
10With his breakfast curdled within him, Fiorello Bodoni worked in his junk yard, ripping metal, melting it, pouring out usable ingots.
11No, Bodoni, buy a new wrecking machine, which you need, and pull your dreams apart with it, and smash them to pieces.
12Bodoni looked at it and loved all of it.
13Bodoni felt his heart ache in him.
14Bodoni blinked, clearly puzzled, then continued.
15Bodoni withdrew hastily into the rocket.
16Bodoni blinked and shut his eyes.