Didot
The Didot family’s modern roman with extreme contrast and hairline straight serifs.
Didot and Bodoni created the modern roman at the same time, suited to the clear forms of the Empire style. Didot’s type is still used in French printing and fashion magazines. Examples are in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Materials: Lead-alloy types; smooth wove paper
Manufacture: Punches cut by Firmin Didot; printed on smooth paper that could hold the thin strokes.
The contrast between thick stems and hairlines.
The vertical stress in the o and the straight thin serifs.