Libre Bodoni

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Libre Bodoni Regular Italic
• Medium 500Libre Bodoni Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Libre Bodoni SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Libre Bodoni Bold Bold Italic

Libre Bodoni 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 Libre Bodoni

Libre Bodoni is a serif family in the Didone manner: vertical stress, thick stems, hairline horizontals and thin, flat serifs without brackets. The specimen also shows ball terminals on a, c, f, r and y and a capital Q with a short tail below the bowl. According to the official notes, the fonts are based on Morris Fuller Benton's design for ATF and were adapted specifically for web use; the notes associate the style with fashion and luxury subjects. Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida are credited as designers, with Impallari Type named as manufacturer. The family is variable in weight from 400 to 700 and offers four named weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, each with an italic. Its 639 glyphs cover the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Libre Bodoni works

Fashion and lifestyle headlines

Hairlines against thick stems give large titles the contrast the official notes link to style and luxury subjects.

Magazine decks and pull quotes

The italics supply a second voice for standfirsts and quotations at sizes where the hairlines remain clear.

Brand names for beauty or jewellery

Flat unbracketed serifs and ball terminals form a crisp word shape for a logotype or label.

Short reading text on good screens

Medium and SemiBold thicken the thin strokes a little when Regular looks too fine at moderate sizes.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Libre Bodoni

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 Libre Bodoni 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: "Libre Bodoni";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LibreBodoni-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Libre Bodoni";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LibreBodoni-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Libre Bodoni 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=Libre+Bodoni:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Range is Regular to Bold

The weight axis covers 400 to 700 only; there is no light or black extreme.

Hairlines thin out when small

The horizontal strokes and serifs in the specimen are very fine, so small sizes on coarse screens lose detail.

Two variable files

The package holds a roman and an italic variable file. Static instances are available from the official source.

FAQs

Collections with Libre Bodoni

• High-contrast Didone fonts for fashion and editorial headlines

  Modern-face serifs with hairline serifs and vertical stress: the look of fashion mastheads, beauty packaging and magazine covers.

Similar fonts

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