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DIN Alternatives

Stephen Coles
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Last edited July 25, 2018
safety
wunderkinder
Please handle with cake

Brutal Type — is a sans serif typeface with a distinct manly character. It’s based on the shapes of DIN font, however radically reconsidered. Despite the apparent simplicity and obviousness of forms, the Brutal Type design is original and fresh. This font is universal and familiar to all, emotional and catchy at the same time.

winter
illustrative
It is warm and fragrant to hint

The friendly technical sans has gotten friendlier. Eduardo Manso has gone to great lengths in expanding the family to make Ciutadella Rounded, a face with truly round terminals in every weight—no small feat. Compact and display-focused, this one’s definitely a prominent pick among the DIN Alternatives.

rocket
abstractions
Let us do the birds friend

FF Good is a straight-sided sans serif in the American Gothic tradition, designed by Warsaw-based Łukasz Dziedzic. Despite having something of an “old-fashioned” heritage, FF Good feels new. Many customers agree: the sturdy, legible forms of FF Good have been put to good use in the Polish-language magazine ‘Komputer Swiat,’ the German and Russian edition of the celebrity tabloid OK!, and the... Read More

rocket
illustrative
Beware the hobby that eats

FF Good is a straight-sided sans serif in the American Gothic tradition, designed by Warsaw-based Łukasz Dziedzic. Despite having something of an “old-fashioned” heritage, FF Good feels new. Many customers agree: the sturdy, legible forms of FF Good have been put to good use in the Polish-language magazine ‘Komputer Swiat,’ the German and Russian edition of the celebrity tabloid OK!, and the... Read More

mystic
japanophilia
Set goods afire, paste at will

ITC Conduit was designed by Mark van Bronkhorst based on the letters on ordinary signage done by a non-professional. He took the regular but awkward forms and added his experienced sense of design and proportion … and in the process broke almost every rule. The forms were made with a grid, “like the 90 degree corners in real conduits with all the tips and corners rounded off.” A few optical... Read More

replay
japanophilia
Stop, I do not eat junk mail

The Azbuka™ typeface family has its roots in a fairly pedestrian source. “The idea came in part from an old sign in London that read ‘SPRINKLER STOP VALVE’,” says Dave Farey, designer of the typeface. Like all good sign spotters, Farey took a photograph of the sign and filed it away for possible use in a lettering or typeface design project. In Prague a number of years later, the street signs... Read More

winter
illustrative
Green ecology limitless magnificence

Linotype Ordinar, from Swedish designer Lutz Baar, is part of the TakeType Library, chosen from the entries of the Linotype-sponsored International Digital Type Design Contest 1999 for inclusion on the TakeType 3 CD. A headline type, this font is available in regular, italic and double weights. The figures are based on the form of a rectangle. The forms on the base line are relatively large... Read More

Gayaneh Bagdasaryan and Dmitry Rastvortsev
Brownfox 2013
Eduardo Manso
Emtype Foundry 2012
Eduardo Manso
Emtype Foundry 2015
Lukasz Dziedzic
FontFont 2007
Lukasz Dziedzic
FontFont 2010
Maximiliano Giungi
Bitstream 2006
Mark van Bronkhorst
ITC 1997

Elsner+Flake
Tagir Safayev, Manvel Shmavonyan and Isabella Chaeva
ParaType
Ole Schäfer
primetype 2003

Elsner+Flake
Dave Farey and Richard Dawson
Monotype 2008
Lutz Baar
Linotype 1999