#Din pro condense font free series

Rounded/extended shoulder of the lower case r.Square dot with extra whitespace above the lower case i.With time Eastern European, Greek and Cyrillic character sets have been added as well. Alternate glyphs include rounded dots, old style figures, and alternate cedilla. The entire family includes extended characters such as arrows, fractions, euro sign, lozenge, mathematical symbols, extra accented Latin letters, and superscript numeral figures. The family includes five font weights in two widths, normal and condensed, each with italics. Albert also added weights.FF DIN looks as if DIN had always had those weights because Albert didn’t let his ego interfere with the job.' He did it so well that it looks exactly like the original, but much better, especially in smaller sizes. Spiekermann wrote in 2009 that 'Albert’s brief was to take the regular weight and subtly make it a good typeface. It includes ranging (old style) figures and several refinements that allow it to perform better as a print and screen text face. While based on the DIN 1451 standard lettering, FF DIN has additional weights and a far wider character set. History Īt a 1994 meeting of the Association Typographique Internationale trade association in San Francisco, Pool encountered Erik Spiekermann, who encouraged him to design a revival of DIN 1451 for release by FontFont, the type foundry Spiekermann had just established.

It became very popular: as of September 2017, it remained the best-selling typeface on MyFonts.

#Din pro condense font free series

įF DIN has an unadorned appearance with high x-height and a large series of weights. It was published by FontShop in its FontFont library of typefaces. DIN is an acronym for Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute of Standardisation). It was designed in 1995 by Albert-Jan Pool, based on DIN-Mittelschrift and DIN-Engschrift, as defined in the German standard DIN 1451. FF DIN is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial or 'grotesque' style.