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DidotFirst designed by Firmin Didot in 1783

Book created by Samantha Chatman March 2010

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Firmin Didot originally created the font Didot. He was a punch cutter, publisher, type founder, printer, and author. The year 1783 was when Didot cut his first typefaces and reworked his father’s ro-man alphabets. He came from a family of dynamic designers, and they around for a good 100 years cross-ing over between the 18th and 19th centuries. They were all printers, inventors, publishers, typeface design-ers, and intellectuals.

Didot RegularABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

Didot ItalicABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

Didot BoldABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

Linotype Didot HeadlineABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

Linotype Didot Headline Oldstyle FiguresABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

Linotype Didot InitialsABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Linotype Didot Oldstyle FiguresABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

& Didot comes in a variety of faces. There are originally Didot; regular,bold, and

italic. And there is also Linotype Didot, and that includes 12 other font

faces for the font Didot.

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(Linotype Didot Ornaments 1)Linotype Didot Headline

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(Linotype Didot Ornaments 2)ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTabcdefghijklmnopqrst

Linotype Didot RomanABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ


Linotype Didot Small Caps & Oldstyle FiguresABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ


Linotype Didot ItalicsABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ


Linotype Didot Italic Oldstyle FiguresABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ


Linotype Didot BoldABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ


Linotype Didot Bold Oldstyle FiguresABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ


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earlier digital versions suffered from a syndrome called "dazzle"–in which the hairline strokes in smaller point sizes seem as though they disappear when print-ed.

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Linotype Didot Roman70 pt

Linotype Didot Initials88 pt

Linotype Didot Italic Oldstyle Figures

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Didot Italic72 pt

Linotype Didot Headline72 pt

Linotype Didot Bold Oldstyle Figures

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Thanks to self kerning and modern uses of the kerning tool, making a headline font is much easier to do. Kerning can either help or hurt a design. But if it is used cor-rectly then it should be very easy help bring together an ad. In this case, Didot is used as the typeface for the magazine Vogue. Why, because Didot

is looks elegant, and it has a romantic and sophisticated feel. We easily recognize the title and many recognize the font–in which is has always been used as the display font for Vogue magazine. Together, they go hand-in-hand–and if it was not kerned, it wouldn’t be as successful.

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Linotype Didot Headline Oldstyle Figures

Linotype Didot Roman

Didot Regular

Linotype Didot Headline

Oldstyle Figures

Linotype Didot Italic

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Didot gives text a classic and elegant feel–These faces are characterized by vertical stress, abrupt changes from thick to thin strokes and hairline serifs. The typeface takes inspiration from John Baskerville’s experi-mentation with increasing stroke contrast and a more condensed armature.

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This typeface takes inspiration from John

Baskerville’s experimentation with

increasing stroke contrast and a more condensed

armature.

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