Font family: | DIN Next W1G |
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Font version: | Version 1.40 |
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Characters: | 619 |
Number of glyphs: | 715 |
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Copyright notice: | Copyright © 2010 - 2017 Monotype GmbH. All rights reserved. |
Font family: | DIN Next W1G |
Font Subfamily name: | Italic |
Unique font identifier: | Monotype Imaging Inc.:DIN Next W1G Italic:2017 |
Full font name: | DIN Next W1G Italic |
Version string: | Version 1.40 |
Postscript name: | DINNextW1G-Italic |
Trademark: | DIN Next is a trademark of Monotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. |
Designer: | Linotype Design Studio |
Description: | DIN Next is a typeface family inspired by the classic industrial German engineering designs, DIN 1451 Engschrift and Mittelschrift. Akira Kobayashi began by revising these two faces - the names just mean condensed and regular - before expanding them into a new family with seven weights (Light to Black). Each weight ships in three varieties: Regular, Italic, and Condensed, bringing the total number of fonts in the DIN Next family to 21. DIN Next is part of Linotype's Platinum Collection. Linotype has been supplying its customers with the two DIN 1451 fonts since 1980. Recently, they have become more popular than ever, with designers regularly asking for additional weights. The abbreviation DIN stands for "Deutsches Institut fuer Normung e.V.", which is the German Institute for Industrial Standardization. In 1936 the German Standard Committee settled upon DIN 1451 as the standard font for the areas of technology, traffic, administration and business. The design was to be used on German street signs and house numbers. The committee wanted a sans serif, thinking it would be more legible, straightforward, and easy to reproduce. They did not intend for the design to be used for advertisements and other artistically oriented purposes. Nevertheless, because DIN 1451 was seen all over Germany on signs for town names and traffic directions, it became familiar enough to make its way onto the palettes of graphic designers and advertising art directors. The digital version of DIN 1451 would go on to be adopted and used by designers in other countries as well, solidifying its worldwide design reputation. There are many subtle differences in DIN Next's letters when compared with the DIN 1451 original. These were added by Kobayashi to make the new family even more versatile in 21st-century media. For instance, although DIN 1451's corners are all pointed angles, DIN Next has rounded them all slightly. Even this softening is a nod to part of DIN 1451's past, however. Many of the signs that use DIN 1451 are cut with routers, which cannot make perfect corners; their rounded heads cut rounded corners best. Linotype's DIN 1451 Engschrift and Mittelschrift are certified by the German DIN Institute for use on official signage projects. Since DIN Next is a new design, these applications within Germany are not possible with it. However, DIN Next may be used for any other project, and it may be used for industrial signage in any other country! DIN Next has been tailored especially for graphic designers, but its industrial heritage makes it surprisingly functional in just about any application. |
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Typographic Family name: | DIN Next W1G |
Typographic Subfamily name: | Italic |
WWS Family Name: | DIN Next W1G |
WWS Subfamily Name: | Italic |
Pixel unit: | 1000 |
Vertical minimum: | -212 |
Vertical maximum: | 916 |
Horizontal minimum: | -154 |
Horizontal maximum: | 972 |
Mac Style: | 2 |
Minimum readable pixel size: | 9 |
Font direction: | 2 |
Ascending part: | 750 |
Descending part: | -250 |
Line spacing: | 200 |
Maximum step width: | 1040 |
Minimum left side beraring: | -154 |
Minimum right side beraring: | -196 |
Non component maximum points | 141 |
Non component maximum contours | 7 |
Word weight type: | 400 |
Word width type: | 5 |
Size of superscript horizontal font : | 700 |
Size of superscript vertical font | 650 |
Superscript horizontal deviation | 0 |
Superscript vertical deviation | 140 |
Size of subscript level font: | 700 |
Size of subscript vertical | 650 |
Subscript horizontal offset: | 0 |
Subscript vertical offset: | 477 |
Delete line size: | 50 |
Delete line position: | 250 |
Font selection identifier: | 129 |
Typography ascending: | 750 |
Typography descending | -250 |
Typography spacing: | 200 |
Ascending part: | 850 |
Descending part: | 350 |
Bevel: | -655360 |
Underline position: | -75 |
Underline thickness: | 50 |