Didot Floriated Capitals
Didot may refer to: * Didot family, family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers that flourished mainly in the 18th century * Didot (typeface), a group of serif typefaces * the Didot Point (typography) * Sylvain Didot (born 1975), French footballer and coach, played for Pontivy, Brest, Toulouse, Reims, Avranches, Briochin * Étienne Didot Étienne Didot (born 24 July 1983) is a French former professional footballer who primarily played as a centre midfielder. Didot made over 400 appearances in Ligue 1 playing for Stade Rennais F.C., Toulouse FC, and En Avant de Guingamp. Club c ...

Didot Family
Didot is the name of a family of French printers, punch-cutters and publishers. Through its achievements and advancements in printing, publishing and typography, the family has lent its name to typographic measurements developed by François-Ambroise Didot and the Didot typeface developed by Firmin Didot. The Didot company of France was ultimately incorporated into the modern CPI printing group. The Didot family played a significant role in the development of printing over several generations, beginning in the early 18th century in France. François Didot, the progenitor, was a Parisian merchant who founded a bookstore in 1713 and received a printer's charter in 1754, publishing notable works like the "Histoire des voyages." His son, François-Ambroise Didot, succeeded him and made significant contributions to printing technology, including the invention of the Didot point system, a method for sizing typefaces that became standard in Europe. The family's contributions to th ...
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Didot (typeface)
Didot is a group of typefaces. The word/name Didot came from the famous French printing and type-producing Didot family. The classification is known as modern, or Didone. The most famous Didot typefaces were developed in the period 1784–1811. Firmin Didot (1764–1836) cut the letters, and cast them as type in Paris. His brother, Pierre Didot (1760–1853) used the types in printing. His edition of '' La Henriade'' by Voltaire in 1818 is considered his masterwork. The typeface takes inspiration from John Baskerville's experimentation with increasing stroke contrast and a more condensed armature. The Didot family's development of a high contrast typeface with an increased stress is contemporary to similar faces developed by Giambattista Bodoni in Italy. Didot is described as neoclassical, and evocative of the Age of Enlightenment. The Didot family were among the first to set up a printing press in the newly independent Greece, and typefaces in the style of Didot have remai ...
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Point (typography)
In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history. Since the 18th century, the size of a point has been between 0.18 and 0.4  millimeters. Following the advent of desktop publishing in the 1980s and 1990s, digital printing has largely supplanted the letterpress printing and has established the desktop publishing (DTP) point as the ''de facto'' standard. The DTP point is defined as of an inch (or exactly 0.352  mm) and, as with earlier American point sizes, is considered to be of a pica. In metal type, the point size of a font describes the height of the metal body on which that font's characters were cast. In digital type, letters of a computer font are designed around an imaginary space called an '' em square''. When a point size of a font is specified, the font is scaled so that its em square has a side length ...
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Sylvain Didot
Sylvain Didot (born 8 October 1975) is a French football manager and former player who currently manages Granville in French Championnat National 2. He played professionally in Ligue 1 for Toulouse FC and in Ligue 2 for Toulouse and Stade de Reims. Club career Born in Lannion, Didot was a youth player at Guingamp before moving to the CFA, first with GSI Pontivy and then with Brest. In 2003, he was part of the Brest side, which won promotion from the CFA, through being champions of Group D. In the summer of 2002, Didot signed for Ligue 2 team Toulouse FC. On 16 May 2003, he scored the goal, which secured promotion for Toulouse to Ligue 1. On 17 June 2004, with two years still remaining on his contract at Toulouse, Didot agreed to terminate the deal and signed for newly-promoted Ligue 2 side Stade de Reims. He was a regular player in four of his five seasons with Reims. In October 2006, Didot suffered a serious leg injury, which prevented him from playing for the rest of the s ...
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