How To Get Didot Font

Fonts are installed on each machine used to view a website. The font or font family you want to display to your site visitors is stated in your site’s CSS. The reason for a font family or calling for several font styles is in case the machine viewing the site does not have the font called for in the CSS, installed in the viewing machine.

So, if you want to show an exact type font to your visitors and it is not commonly installed, they will not see it. Your Didot font is not a regularly installed fort. If you only need the type style in a small part of the site, you might consider using an image built with photoshop containing the font.

However, if you want large and especially dynamic areas of your site in your special font, you might try Google Fonts. It’s unlikely that you will find your exact font there BUT you may find something close enough to meet your needs.

If you find a font close enough to what you want, follow the directions you find on the Google font site about how to add the font to your website.

You can get a webfont kit of theano didot from fontsquirrel: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Didot

This free font may be an acceptable substitute for didot regular and the license it is offered under permits it to be used as a webfont.

If this font does meet your needs, the font files from the webfont kit would need to be copied into a child theme, and a font definition block from the sample CSS will need to added to the top of the child theme’s stylesheet, paying particular attention to ensuring that the paths to the font files are corrected if necessary. Then the font can be specified within the CSS.

@wslade said:

Fonts are installed on each machine used to view a website

This is wrong; the idea behind web fonts is that they do not rely on fonts installed on client machines.

However, if you want large and especially dynamic areas of your site in your special font, you might try Google Fonts.

This is the idea behind webfonts; they load from Google and do not depend on client fonts.

@wslade and @songdogtech

I would like that font for my blog post titles.

Try a Google Font plugin, e.g. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/google-typography/