Giambattista Bodoni came from a printmaking background, his father and grandfather both being in that trade. He worked for a time as an apprentice in the Vatican's Propaganda Fide printing house in Rome. There, it was said he impressed his superiors so much with his eagerness to learn, studiousness in mastery of ancient languages and types, and energy of effort, that he was allowed to place his own name on his first books, a Coptic Missal and a version of the Tibetan alphabet.
My views on some of Bodini's works are that i like that he invented his own font that is still used today, which to me says he was a very good graphic designer and makes me feel that something so small can last a long time, I really like his works because in most of them he uses his own font that he created.
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