Talk:Didone (typography)

Pronunciation
Dee-doan or dih-doh-nee? —Michael Z. 2010-10-30 17:06 z 

Etymology
What is it? This needs to be included.68.151.25.115 (talk) 05:09, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

The current explanation (amalgamation of surnames) appears to be false, since the spelling of "Bodoni" with an i is not in dispute. If there isn't documented evidence, then just say there isn't documented evidence. TooManyFingers (talk) 21:49, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

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Requested move 6 December 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. No prospect of consensus to move. Andrewa (talk) 14:22, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Didone (typography) → Didone – WP:TWODABS ―Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:07, 6 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Support, which would be undoing an undiscussed move from 2013. I don't think Didone (opera) is as prominent. &mdash;Xezbeth (talk) 15:46, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose, marginally. (I've edited and expanded the article heavily, getting it from 1,233 to 40,428 bytes.) The new name seems uglier to me–Didone is an adjective so it seems awkward to name a page with an adjective without clarifying what it's an adjective of. It's not normal in typography to use the word 'Didone' on its own-people talk about "Didone fonts" or "Didone typefaces", but the word is not generally used as a standalone term. Blythwood (talk) 17:51, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Strong oppose per reality check; Didone on its own means Didone, not the font named after her. In ictu oculi (talk) 19:20, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, and that's the other thing, it's not "named after her". A lot of people when they think of "Didone" are probably thinking of Dido, Queen of Carthage, which is "Didone" or "Didon" in various languages (e.g. Italian and French, respectively), which is why we have a disambig page at the moment. Now that use has existed far, far longer than "Didone" in typography, which is a 50s coinage mashing together the names of two typefounders in the nineteenth century, the Didot family and Bodoni. Blythwood (talk) 21:11, 6 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Closing comments: I note also that the target has now been expanded past the TWODABS situation, so that part of the rationale collapses. The 2013 bold move was perhaps a bit too bold in that the edit summary  disambiguation (yes that's all of it) provides no rationale, but we're now in a wp:SNOW situation IMO. Andrewa (talk) 14:22, 13 December 2019 (UTC)


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