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Didact Gothic

A single-weight geometric sans with schoolbook letter shapes, covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.

Sans Serif 1 style by Daniel Johnson, Cyreal OFL

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Didact Gothic is a sans serif typeface first drawn by Daniel Johnson and later revised at Cyreal, with every letter in the shape usually taught to young pupils. Didact Gothic has one Regular style holding 1,244 glyphs across Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits teaching material and short texts.

Didact Gothic font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designers
Daniel Johnson, Cyreal
Classification
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
1,244
Languages checked
28 see the list
Last updated
version 2.101
Used for
MinimalistGeometricKids

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Didact Gothic; the download contains the complete files.

Didact Gothic font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Didact Gothic specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Didact Gothic Regular

About Didact Gothic

Didact Gothic is a sans serif typeface built around the letter shapes children usually meet in their first years at school. In the specimen the lowercase a and g are single-storey, the o and c are close to circles, and the strokes keep an even, fairly light thickness with almost no contrast. The family consists of one Regular style; there is no bold, no italic and no variable axis. Its 1,244 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Greek, so the same plain forms carry across three scripts. Daniel Johnson drew the original design, and according to the official notes Alexei Vanyashin of Cyreal reworked the whole font in 2017. The files are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and the family was added to Google Fonts in 2011.

Where Didact Gothic works

Early reading material
Single-storey a and g match the shapes pupils are taught to write, which is the purpose the design was made for.
Worksheets and classroom posters
Round, open letters in one even stroke thickness stay clear when set large on handouts and wall displays.
Language-learning resources
Latin, Cyrillic and Greek sit in one file, so vocabulary lists in Russian or Greek keep the same letter style as the English text.
Captions and short labels
The light Regular sets short notes and labels; with no bold in the family, emphasis has to come from size or colour.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,244 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian
  • Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Daniel Johnson (<il.basso.buffo@gmail.com>).

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Didact Gothic

Adamina Serif

Didact Gothic is sans serif and Adamina is serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Antic Slab Slab Serif

Didact Gothic is sans serif and Antic Slab is slab serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.

Anonymous Pro Monospace

Anonymous Pro is a monospace family (2 weights) for code and figures next to Didact Gothic as the text face.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Didact Gothic on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Didact Gothic";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DidactGothic-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Didact Gothic", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Didact Gothic with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Regular is the whole family
Didact Gothic ships as one Regular 400 file. Bold and italic cuts do not exist.
Revised in 2017
The official notes credit Daniel Johnson with the first design and Alexei Vanyashin at Cyreal with a full revision in 2017.
Three scripts, no Vietnamese
Subsets cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Greek Extended. Vietnamese is not included.

FAQs

Is Didact Gothic free for commercial use?

Yes. Didact Gothic is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Didact Gothic?

Didact Gothic was first designed by Daniel Johnson. The official notes say Alexei Vanyashin of Cyreal later reworked the entire font, in 2017.

How many weights does Didact Gothic have?

Didact Gothic has one weight, Regular 400. There is no bold or italic, and it is not a variable font.

Is Didact Gothic suitable for teaching children to read?

That is what Didact Gothic was made for: its letters follow the forms pupils usually see in early schooling, such as the single-storey a and g, and the official notes describe it as suited to literacy work.

Which languages does Didact Gothic support?

Didact Gothic includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish and Polish, as well as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Greek.

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