Zuzana Licko - Mrs. Eaves

Mrs. Eaves

In Texts on Type, Zuzana writes about her take on Bodoni and what Mrs. Eaves meant to her: “In my rendition of this classic typeface, I have addressed the highly criticized feature of sharp contrast. To a great degree, the critics were wrong; it did not prevent Baskerville from becoming assimilated as a highly legible text face, and in fact, the high contrast between stems and hairlines became quite desirable, as is apparent in typefaces such as Bodoni, which followed in the lineage.