Bodoni is a serif typeface first designed by Giambattista Bodoni in the late eighteenth century. Bodoni's typefaces are classified as Didone or modern, and he followed the ideas of John Baskerville. Bodoni had a long career and his designs changed and varied, ending with a typeface of a slightly condensed underlying structure with flat, unbracketed serifs, extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes, and an overall geometric construction.