GFS Didot
Designed By
Greek Font Society
1 Style Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
GFS Didot · Regular
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Download GFS Didot ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Letters from the Greek diaspora
A Page In GFS Didot
GFS Didot · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
1 Style,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Letters from the Greek diaspora
The Greek type Firmin Didot cut in Paris in 1805 went straight into the books of Adamantios Korais, the leading scholar of the Greek Enlightenment and a central figure of the diaspora. It reached Greece itself in 1821, during the Revolution, in a field press brought by Didot’s grandson Ambroise Firmin Didot, and for well over a century after that it was the type almost every Greek publication was set in. Only in the last decades of the 20th century did it give ground.
In 1994 the Greek Font Society made a new font from it. Takis Katsoulidis designed GFS Didot and George D. Matthiopoulos digitized it.
The Latin is the surprise. It was drawn after Hermann Zapf’s Palatino, and to our eye that gives English or French text next to the Greek a calmer, more pen-made tone than a French Didot partner would have. For a bilingual edition of a classical text, where Greek and Latin share a page, that pairing is the reason to pick it.
1 Regular style, 1,104 characters including extended Greek. Small caps and old style figures are included.
Characters & Figures
1,104 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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GFS Didot
1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 74 KB ↓- Version
- 1.0
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/gfs-didot-2/gfs-didot-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'GFS Didot', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
GFS Didot Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
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