Critical Debates in Design - Task 1

BAUHAUS TYPEFACE

ITC Bauhaus was designed by Edward Benguiat and Victor Caruso in 1975. 

I chose this typeface because it's a simple and rounded typeface which I really like. It has open end stroke, it's still very modern, although it was created in 1975 and it's clear. 

I read that Bauhaus Heavy was first created to be a display-only design and it was made with a Bauhaus Outline. But the Outline version was dropped from the family, while the Bauhaus Heavy was made part of the now text/display offering.

BODONI

Bodoni is a series of serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni in 1798. 

Bodoni typeface followed the ideas of Baskerville typeface, created by John Baskerville. Giambattista Bodoni admired the work of John Baskerville and studied in detail the designs of French typefaces founders. But, despite of this inspirations, there is no doubt that Bodoni found his own style for his typefaces which gained a huge acceptance among printers.

Bodoni has a thicker stroke that contrast more with the thin strokes and is more vertical than Baskerville. It is said that this font suffers from legibility caused by this contrast between really thick and really thin strokes, specially the thin strokes for being so thin at small point sizes. 

I personally like this typeface. It looks elegant and simple but I wouldn't use for something that needed to look very trendy. I would use more for traditional things, like newspaper, theaters, etc... something more preservative.