Bodoni Moda

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Bodoni Moda Regular Italic
• Medium 500Bodoni Moda Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Bodoni Moda SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Bodoni Moda Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Bodoni Moda ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Bodoni Moda Black Black Italic

Bodoni Moda is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Bodoni Moda

Bodoni Moda is a serif family in the Bodoni style built for digital use. Its signature is extreme contrast: in the specimen heavy vertical stems meet hairline horizontals and thin, flat serifs without brackets, and letters such as a, c, f and r finish in round ball terminals. The stress is strictly vertical. Bodoni Moda is a variable font with two axes. Weight runs from 400 to 900 through six named weights, Regular to Black; optical size runs from 6 to 96, so the design can be tuned for small text or for large display sizes. With italics there are 12 named styles. The fonts hold 562 glyphs and cover Latin and Latin Extended. Owen Earl designed the family at indestructible type, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Bodoni Moda works

Magazine mastheads and headlines

At the high end of the optical size axis the hairlines become very fine, which is the effect a large title wants.

Luxury packaging and brand names

Vertical stress, ball terminals and sharp contrast give a short name a formal, polished look.

Posters in Black weight

Black 900 thickens the stems while the hairlines stay thin, producing a dramatic thick-thin rhythm.

Captions and short text

Lower optical size values adapt the design for small sizes, where display cuts of this style usually fall apart.

Invitations and certificates

The italic, available for all six weights, sets names and dates with a classical flourish.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Bodoni Moda

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Bodoni Moda on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Bodoni Moda";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BodoniModa-Italic-VariableFont_opsz%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Bodoni Moda";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/BodoniModa-VariableFont_opsz%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Bodoni Moda", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Bodoni Moda with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Bodoni+Moda:ital,wght@0,400..900;1,400..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Optical size from 6 to 96

Software with automatic optical sizing picks the value from the font size; otherwise the axis is set by hand.

Nothing lighter than Regular

The weight axis starts at 400 and runs to 900. There are no Light or Thin styles.

Two variable files

Roman and italic each come as one variable file holding both axes; static files are not part of this package.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All serif fonts