Allrounder Didone

Allrounder Didone is a modern (or classicist) serif typeface from the Allrounder superfamily. Its regular, constructed appearance with high stroke contrast and vertical axis is especially suited to fashion and culture as well as legal and scientific topics, with all features required to cope with advanced typographical tasks.

Tapping into the creative potential of early 19th-century type designs by Firmin Didot, Giambattista Bodoni, and Justus Erich Walbaum, Allrounder Didone combines unbracketed, thin serifs with generous vertical and delicate horizontal strokes. The rhythm of the stems creates a regular appearance on the page, with the precise shapes of the typeface paying homage to classic Greek and Roman ideals.

These days, members of the Didone genre are widely regarded as display typefaces. That’s because it’s mainly their fashionable large sizes that have been digitized and disseminated in recent times. Looking back at the originals, though, it’s evident that Didot et al. designed their typefaces for all sizes. Each point size was created individually, with all necessary adjustments to stroke contrast and details applied in the process.

To account for this (and to create a font family true to the Allrounder name), we created two optical sizes for Allrounder Didone. The original Allrounder Didone takes root in the smaller point sizes of the old masters’ fonts. It’s sturdy enough for body text and perfectly suited to short copy, captions, annotations. Well applicable to all-purpose typesetting, it makes headlines and titles appear strong and confident, too. For the literal “Didone” look of our time, we added Allrounder Didone Big. Its high stroke contrast radiates voguish style and lofty sophistication best enjoyed in large sizes. With shorter serifs and a narrower footprint, it’s great for titles, posters, and high-gloss magazine pages with ample white space. In a given branding, editorial, or book design project, both Allrounder Didone subfamilies can be employed together or solo.

Use Allrounder Didone for couture or for culture branding, for encyclopedias and novels. Allrounder Didone provides perfect fonts for apparel campaigns, for museum guides, playbills, and opera programs, for architecture (think architectural lettering) and for decorative prints. The Allrounder Didone typefaces are also great for unique social media brands and for retina-ready UI/UX design.

As true Allrounder fonts, Allrounder Didone and Allrounder Didone Big can also be combined with any other Allrounder subfamily, such as Allrounder Grotesk, Allrounder Grotesk Mono, or even Allrounder Monument. Combining serif fonts can be tricky with many typefaces, but the Allrounder type system makes sure that all of its subfamilies create a harmonic texture together, right out of the box, with no adjustment necessary.

All Allrounder Didone fonts come with a cornucopia of professional Opentype Features: small caps, plenty figure sets (circled and boxed ones, too), case-sensitive forms, superiors, fractions, and arrows (also circled and boxed). You will find localized forms within this extended character set as well as diacritics for more than 200 Latin-based languages.

Credits
Spacing / Kerning: Sebastian Carewe
Graphics & Editing: Johannes López Ayala