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About GFS Bodoni Font
GFS Bodoni is a display typeface designed by George Matthiopoulos and released by the Greek Font Society. This regular-weight font carries 1177 glyphs and supports more than 297 languages based on Latin scripts, making it accessible for multilingual projects without additional font files. The broad glyph set provides the character depth needed for editorial work where uncommon accents, diacritics, or decorative marks might appear.
Display fonts anchor the visual hierarchy of designs, and GFS Bodoni works well for magazine covers, poster campaigns, book title pages, and branding applications where a statement-making typeface sets the design's tone. Fashion lookbooks, event invitations, and packaging design all benefit from the structural clarity a display font provides. For web projects, it serves as an effective header typeface on landing pages and hero sections where impact matters more than body-text legibility.
GFS Bodoni is distributed under the Open Font License, free for both personal and commercial use. Choose this font when you need broad language coverage and character depth in a display weight, particularly if your design reaches international audiences or requires special characters beyond the ASCII standard.
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Eye-catching, Bold, Display
- Use Case
- Headlines, Logos
- Ideal For
- posters, branding, and social media graphics
- Pairs With
- a readable sans or serif for body
GFS Bodoni Specifications
| Font Family | GFS Bodoni Rg |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | GFSBodoni-Regular |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Weight | 400 (Regular) |
| Glyph Count | 1177 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | GFSBodoni-Regular |
| Designer | George Matthiopoulos, Greek Font Society |
| Format | OTF (CFF) |
| File Size | 139.3 KB |
OpenType Features
GFS Bodoni ships with 10 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).
- Small capitals from capitals
- Historical forms
- Standard ligatures
- Lining figures
- Old-style figures
- Proportional figures
- Scientific inferiors
- Small capitals
- Superscripts
- Tabular figures
Languages Supported
GFS Bodoni supports 297 languages.
How to Install GFS Bodoni Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the GFS Bodoni font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5GFS Bodoni is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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GFS Bodoni Font
by George Matthiopoulos, Greek Font Society
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated October 2026















