Didact Gothic
Designed by Daniel Johnson, Cyreal. 1 style · sans
Sets English · Russian · Greek
Regular · 400
Learning to read
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About Didact Gothic
Didact Gothic is a sans-serif drawn to show each letter in the form children learn in elementary school — simple strokes, nothing to decode. Daniel Johnson designed it for literacy work, and Alexei Vanyashin at Cyreal revised the whole font in 2017.
That plainness makes it ideal for children's books, worksheets, flashcards and learning apps, and it covers Cyrillic and Greek as well as Latin.
It is a single weight, so pair it with a bolder face for headings. Its clarity also suits signage and accessibility-minded materials, where unambiguous letters matter more than style.
Licence
Didact Gothic is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which permits use in personal and commercial work. Read the licence before redistributing the files or selling them on.
Installing it
- Windows.
- Right-click the downloaded file and choose Install, or drop it into Settings → Personalisation → Fonts.
- macOS.
- Double-click the file and press Install Font in Font Book.
- On the web.
- Self-host the WOFF2 and declare it with an
@font-facerule rather than linking to this page.