Didone

serif typeface genre popular during the 19th century with narrow unbracketed serifs, vertical orientation of weight axes, strong contrast between thick and thin lines and ball terminals
Place typeface_family Q693749
Didone
Giambattista Bodoni · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Didone

Summary

Didone is a typeface family[1]. Didone draws 120 Wikipedia views per month (typeface_family category, ranking #32 of 190).[2]

Key Facts

  • Didone is the creator of Firmin Didot[3].
  • Didone is the creator of Giambattista Bodoni[4].
  • Didone's image is recorded as Manuale-Tipografico1.jpg[5].
  • Didone's instance of is recorded as typeface family[6].
  • Firmin Didot is named after Didone[7].
  • Giambattista Bodoni is named after Didone[8].
  • Didone's subclass of is recorded as serif typeface[9].
  • Didone's subclass of is recorded as Moderns[10].
  • Didone's subclass of is recorded as Roman type[11].
  • Didone's part of is recorded as Vox-ATypI classification[12].
  • Didone's part of is recorded as DIN 16518[13].
  • Didone's Commons category is recorded as Modern roman type[14].
  • Didone's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08rk2m[15].
  • Didone's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Didone serif typefaces[16].
  • Didone's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300211196[17].
  • Didone's different from is recorded as Didone[18].

Body

Geography

Part of include Vox-ATypI classification[12], a specialised classification scheme[19] and DIN 16518[13], a DIN-Norm[20], in Germany[21].

Designation and Status

Didone's instance of is recorded as typeface family[6].

History and Context

Things named after include Firmin Didot[7], a type designer[22], 1764–1836[23], of France[24], awarded the Knight of the Legion of Honour[25] and Giambattista Bodoni[8], a type designer[26], 1740–1813[27].

Why It Matters

Didone draws 120 Wikipedia views per month (typeface_family category, ranking #32 of 190).[2] Didone has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Didone is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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