GFS Didot

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Font size

Character count: 1,105
Glyph count: 1,147
File size: 191kb
Foundry: Greek Font Society
License: OFL 1.1

Description

Under the influence of the neoclassical ideals of the late 18th century, the famous French typecutter Firmin Didot in Paris designed a new Greek typeface (1805) which was immediately used in the publishing programme of Adamantios Korais, the prominent intellectual figure of the Greek diaspora and leading scholar of the Greek Enligntment.

The typeface eventually arrived in Greece, with the field press which came with Didot’s grandson Ambroise Firmin Didot, during the Greek Revolution in 1821.

Since then the typeface enjoyed an unrivaled success as the type of choice for almost every kind of publication, until the last decades of the 20th century.

Didot’s type was the base for a new font, GFS Didot (1994), which was designed by Takis Katsoulidis, and digitised by George Matthiopoulos, of the Greek Font Society.

The typeface is accompanied by a matching Latin design, inspired by Hermann Zapf’s Palatino.

Glyph script breakdown

Latn

33%

Grek

29%

Zzzz

20%

Zyyy

17%

Other

Average glyph size

average height and average width

average size(all fonts)

average size(this font)

100%

98%

Font fallback

CSS


    @font-face {
    
      
        font-family:GFSDidot-fallback;
      
      
        
          src:
        
        
          local("Times New Roman"),
        

        
          local("TimesNewRomanPSMT"),
        

        
          local("Times New Roman.ttf");
        
      
      
        
          size-adjust:
        
        
          113.76%;
        
      

      
        
          ascent-override:
        
        
          61.8%;
        
      

      
        
          descent-override:
        
        
          23.82%;
        
      

      
        
          line-gap-override:
        
        
          4.4%;
        
      
    
    }

    .gfs_didot {
    
      
          font-family:
        
      "GFS Didot", 
      "GFSDidot-fallback", 
      serif; 
    
    }

Without adjustment

mox vomer proin

With adjustment

mox vomer proin

Font metrics

Units per em: 1000
X Height: 456
Cap Height: 689

Ascent: 703
Descent: -271
Line Gap: 50

Font files/variations

GFSDidot-Regular

roman

400

1,105 characters

191kb