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Caponi
Caponi is a licensed font from Commercial Type: $650, styles from $50, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Caponi is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Paul Barnes, Christian Schwartz
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- $650, styles from $50 (One-time fee for perpetual use) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
- Trial
- The foundry offers a trial download.
A Bodoni revival that takes its primary reference from Giambattista Bodoni's early, Rococo-influenced work rather than his later high-contrast types; commissioned for Entertainment Weekly.
Free alternatives to Caponi
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Caponi is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Bodoni Moda webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bodoni Moda.
derived
An open Bodoni family with optical sizes; based on Bodoni's later high-contrast cuts, which Caponi deliberately sidesteps.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Libre Bodoni webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Libre Bodoni.
derived
An open Bodoni revival; more conventional Didone than Caponi's early-Bodoni reference.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Playfair Display webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Playfair Display.
same classification
A transitional-Didone display serif with a similar sparkle; softer than Caponi.
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