Font family: | DIN OT |
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Font version: | Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04 |
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Characters: | 430 |
Number of glyphs: | 646 |
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Copyright notice: | Copyright © 1995-2018 Monotype GmbH. All rights reserved |
Font family: | DIN OT Black |
Font Subfamily name: | Italic |
Unique font identifier: | Albert-Jan Pool: DIN OT Black Italic: 2016 |
Full font name: | DIN OT Black Italic |
Version string: | Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04 |
Postscript name: | DINOT-BlackItalic |
Trademark: | FF is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. DIN is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. |
Designer: | Albert-Jan Pool |
Description: | 1994, San Francisco: Albert-Jan Pool and Erik Spiekermann took a cab together from the ATypI conference to the airport. Having known that Pool’s employer had just gone bust, Spiekermann told him that if he wanted to earn some money with type design, he should have looked at fonts such as OCR and DIN. He invited Pool to Berlin to discuss the idea in detail. One year later, FontFont published Pool’s FF OCR-F typeface, followed by FF DIN. Spiekermann was keenly aware of an empty space in the market. Digital DIN fonts were available at the time, but only in two weights of purely geometric shapes. Pool then designed a family of five weights. He added true italics and some alternative characters, such as the “i” with a round dot and lowercase figures. Later, five weights of FF DIN Condensed were added, as well as Greek and Cyrillic versions. The shape of the new FF DIN differs from the original mostly by thinner horizontal strokes and more fluent curves. Despite its primitive, technical look and clear reference to the German motorway signboards, FF DIN has become a phenomenon. The typeface has pervaded corporate and publication typography, and found its place in posters of cultural institutions. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York added the first digital typefaces to its permanent collection. Presumably due in part to the immense popularity enjoyed by FF DIN since its release in the mid-1990s, it was one of 23 designs to be included. FF DIN debuted at MoMA as part of the “Standard Deviations” installation in the contemporary design gallery. In 2014, German type designer Yanone was commissioned by FontFont to extend the popular FF DIN into the Arabic alphabet. Yanone had previously designed the corporate typeface for Jordan’s capital Amman which was published as FF Amman in Latin and Arabic, and had secretly hoped that he could one day design FF DIN’s Arabic counterpart. Coincidentally, he chose a similar approach to the development of the original DIN in the early 1900s, which started out as a hand-written master drawing and later resulted as standard DIN 1451. Yanone engineered FF DIN Arabic, published in 2015, by basing the letter shapes and proportions on a simplified hand-written Naskh skeleton on a grid. Step by step he boiled down the shapes into the digital master drawings that feature the same clarity and legibility of the Latin DIN. In 2015, two new weights Thin and Extra Light (with Italics) for both FF DIN (Normal) and FF DIN Condensed were added to the family. New Greek extensions were also introduced. |
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Typographic Family name: | DIN OT |
Typographic Subfamily name: | Black Italic |
Every Pixel unit: | 1000 | Size of superscript horizontal font : | 478 |
Horizontal minimum: | -235 | Size of superscript vertical font | 398 |
Vertical minimum: | -232 | Superscript horizontal deviation | -30 |
Horizontal maximum: | 1199 | Superscript vertical deviation | 150 |
Vertical maximum: | 1157 | Size of subscript level font: | 478 |
MacStyle: | 2 | Size of subscript vertical | 398 |
Minimum readable pixel size: | 7 | Subscript horizontal offset: | 87 |
Font directionHint: | 2 | Subscript vertical offset: | 434 |
Ascending part: | 1041 | Delete line size: | 102 |
Descending part: | -237 | Delete line position: | 295 |
Line spacing: | 10 | Font selection identifier: | 385 |
Maximum step width: | 1222 | Typography ascending: | 764 |
Minimum left side beraring: | -235 | Typography descending | -236 |
Minimum right side beraring: | -238 | Typography spacing: | 288 |
Horizontal maximum width: | 1199 | WindowsAscending part: | 1041 |
Non component maximum points | 140 | WindowsDescending part: | 237 |
Non component maximum contours | 7 | Bevel: | -720896 |
Word weight type: | 900 | Underline position: | -78 |
Word width type: | 5 | Underline thickness: | 102 |
- ·DIN OT Thin Italic
- ·DIN OT Thin
- ·DIN OT Thin Italic
- ·DIN OT Thin
- ·DIN OT Medium Italic
- ·DIN OT Medium Italic
- ·DIN OT Medium
- ·DIN OT Medium
- ·DIN OT Light Italic
- ·DIN OT Light Italic
- ·DIN OT Light
- ·DIN OT Light
- ·DIN OT Italic
- ·DIN OT Extlight Italic
- ·DIN OT Italic
- ·DIN OT Extlight Italic
- ·DIN OT Extlight
- ·DIN OT Extlight
- ·DIN OT Cond Thin Italic
- ·DIN OT Cond Thin Italic
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.504; 2005; Build 1020
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.504; 2009; Build 1027
- ·DIN OT Black Italic Version 7.504; 2005; Build 1027
- ·DIN OT Cond Black Italic Version 7.601, build 1030, FoPs, FL 5.04