README.txt

GFS Didot
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Designer: Greek Font Society
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see OFL.txt)
Styles: 1
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/GFS+Didot

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.

This font is free to use, share and modify under its license.
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