The BATTISTA typeface stands in the long custom of the styles developed by Giambattista Bodoni, who made his popular typefaces in the end of the eighteenth century. Comparable styles can be discovered on different specimen books e.g. Alexander Wilson, John Bell, Edmund Fry and Alexander Thibaudeau. One of the best italics was readily available by Stephenson Blake & & Co. foundry kind Sheffield, England. In the end of the nineteenth century an unidentified punch cutter at the German type foundry Schelter & & Giesecke made a really vibrant cut of this Bodoni style. He brought both styles, the regular and the italic to a brand-new level of harmony.
Compared to the original Bodoni develops the new typeface was a lot bolder, which was well taken by the audience in this time. The BATTISTA typeface is an impressive design, assembled of ultra vibrant and really great shapes, however in all, the spirit of Bodonis style was well preserved.
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