HvD Fonts carved a full Bodoni-inspired typeface from potato stamps in one kitchen session, then digitized it into a real retail font.
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The process: 8kg of potatoes, hand-carved over one evening, stamped on paper, scanned, and built into a complete digital typeface called Bodedo.
Bodedo ships as a single Regular style with 208 characters and supports 22 languages including full Latin extended and special characters.
HvD positions this as an experimental typographic exercise, not a production workhorse, though the quote “I never thought that I will see this typeface in so many supermarkets all over the world” suggests real-world adoption.
The font covers math symbols, currency, punctuation, and diacritics across Afrikaans, Icelandic, Saami (Southern), and 18 other languages, making it more complete than typical novelty typefaces.
HvD Fonts frames the project as proof that type design can be a hands-on group process, not just solitary vector work.
