Jeanne Moderno™ is a revisionary type family designed by Steve Mehallo. Jeanne Moderno has nine fonts in total and is a synthesis of Bodoni Italic and 19th Century Ultra-Bold “Fat Faces”. Jeanne Moderno is distilled with personality taken from early 20th Century Modernists; the Futurists, Dadaists, Suprematists and the Constructivists. Historically, Jeanne Moderno could have appeared on the scene around 1918—after the First World War—when new cultural movements, manifestos, theories and countertheories shaped art, industry and society.

Spatter in a few later influences—from De Stijl, the Bauhaus, the types of Herbert Bayer, Josef Albers, Paul Renner—plus a twist of Art Deco and High Fashion—Jeanne Moderno is a remanifestation of 19th + 20th Century Modernist thinking; traditional + revisionist, raw and elegant!

Jeanne Moderno can best be used for magazines, advertising, posters, flyers, fashion reports, letterpress experiments, silkscreen endeavors, exhibitions, DMV signage, paper money, revolutionary political statements as well as formal declarations of peace or war.

Jeanne Moderno is about the future, the past. The Avant-Garde. Humanist geometry + vintage footwear. Form, function, style, art and life. Jeanne Moderno Complete (9 fonts) Character Set: Latin-1, plus a few OpenType extras.

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