DEV-TOOLSApril 26, 20261 min read5 views

HVD Bodedo

Designers experimented with typography by carving a Bodoni-inspired font out of 8kg of potatoes, resulting in the unique digital typeface named HVD Bodedo.

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.

HVD Bodedo

Is it possible to carve a Bodoni out of Potatoes? We tried it…

Just 1 Style

Regular

Bodedo

Printing

Halfway done

Cutting

Printed & Scanned

Source: Hacker News

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