HVD Bodedo
Is it possible to carve a Bodoni out of Potatoes? We tried it…
Type design is mostly precisely drawing vector curves, printing proofs and judge the grey value with a minus lense. But it can also be a group of friends coming together to have an experimental typographic evening. We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation with potato stamps, so we bought 8kg of potatoes, some knifes and carved a long, long evening in the kitchen. When we finally had the full aphabet we stamped it on paper, made a font out of this and called it Bodedo.
Bodedo
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“I never thought that I will see this typeface in so many supermarkets all over the world.”
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HVD Bodedo has 208 characters and supports 22 languages:
Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish, Scots), German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Saami (Southern), Spanish, Swahili, Swedish.