license: OFL
payment: NONE
url: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
designer: Greek Font Society
subsets: greek,menu
description: <p>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 Korai, 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 has 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. The typeface is \
  accompanied by a matching latin alphabet based on Hermann Zapf’s \
  Palatino.</p>
conversion: used FontForge to update FullName to "GFS Didot Regular", also added standard prep table
category: serif
