GFS Didot

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400GFS Didot Regular

About GFS Didot

GFS Didot is a serif typeface for Greek with a companion Latin alphabet. Its Greek goes back to a type that the French typecutter Firmin Didot designed in Paris in 1805, which Adamantios Korais adopted for his publishing programme and which reached Greece in 1821 with a field press brought by Didot's grandson. According to the official notes, that type served as the base for GFS Didot in 1994: Takis Katsoulidis designed it and George Matthiopoulos digitised it for the Greek Font Society. The Latin shown in the specimen has clear thick-and-thin contrast, bracketed serifs and ball terminals on letters such as a, c and r. The family is one Regular style with 1,107 glyphs, covering Greek, Greek Extended, Latin and Vietnamese character sets. There is no bold or italic in the package. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where GFS Didot works

Greek-language books

The Greek follows the Didot type that, according to the official notes, was the usual choice for Greek publications until the late twentieth century.

Editions of ancient and scholarly Greek

The Greek Extended character set supplies the accented and aspirated letters that such texts need.

Greek and English side by side

A Latin alphabet designed to accompany the Greek keeps both languages in one typeface on a bilingual page.

Titles and headings

Thin hairlines against heavier stems show clearly when a title is set large.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Greek

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

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

License

Fonts that pair with GFS Didot

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 GFS Didot 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "GFS Didot";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/GFSDidot-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "GFS Didot", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves GFS Didot with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=GFS+Didot&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style

GFS Didot is a single Regular style. Bold and italic are not part of this package, and it is not a variable font.

Greek Extended is included

Alongside modern Greek, the files hold the Greek Extended character set.

The Latin is a companion design

The Greek is the historical core of the typeface; the official notes describe the Latin as a matching design that accompanies it.

FAQs

Collections with GFS Didot

• Fonts that support Greek

  Open-license families with Greek glyphs beside Latin, for Greek-language sites and for mathematics, science and classics.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All serif fonts