The overall font is a bit more more condensed than DIN and some of the capital letter shapes are different.Īlso, not an exact match but the feel is quite similar. The lowercase letter shapes are quite similar.
Using the letters aGgQqlJ to narrow down the letter shape matches, I found: I don't know how close you need to come to the DIN typeface, but I found a couple possibles on Google Web Fonts. 'Dinish' ( Website)( Github) is a fork of this project with continued development, which has also been submitted to Google Fonts. 'Altinn' ( Github) is a fork of this project on Github. Thankfully Peter Weigel traced it for us! D-DINĪ corporation called 'Datto' commissioned Monotype creative type director Charles Nix to create a DIN-like font which was released in 2018 under the SIL OFL 1.1.Īs of 2021, it is no longer available on their website, but you can find it on a reputable site like FontSquirrel or GitHub. This is legal because DIN 1451 is a product of the German government, and so is in the public domain - only the individual interpretations of it by various font foundries are protected and copyrighted. There is now an OFL-licensed, completely free/libre version of DIN called Alte DIN. This is a great way preview things like the title font in a presentation. You can visually see what the font is going to look like by typing phrases in the Custom column. Here, you can search for specific fonts or browse trending and featured fonts.
The situation has changed since this question was first asked in 2012. To begin, go to the site for Google Fonts.
