DIN Next Pro Condensed Medium font by Linotype, from $49.00. It is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, editorial and publishing, logo, branding and creative industries, poster and billboards, small text, wayfinding.
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Free fonts are often worth exactly what you pay for them. We still have a 25% failure rate in-rip on free fonts for any number of reasons. Mostly missing glyphs and bad outline files. Had one once where the lower case n would not print. Another where all the glyphs dropped out.
I've seen a rip-off of a font that was live traced. That looked real purty blown up to 800 points. Looked fine at 10 or 12 points. And the designer was trying to blame us. Not to mention kerning, leading and word wrap issues when subbing a font. Since the quality between free and commercial fonts has come up, and since Oswald was mentioned as a possible free substitute for DIN, I'll point out some quality differences between the two. Below, are two lowercase letters that I've converted to outlines.
The first one is DIN, and the second is Oswald. Notice the overall balanced nature and the harmonious curves of DIN. Compare them to the relative awkwardness of Oswald.
Also notice the efficiency of the control points in DIN. There are 14 anchor points in the DIN glyph, as opposed to the bloated and unnecessary 33 in Oswald. There are certainly some good free fonts, but most of the time, they're worse -- both aesthetically, technically, and in terms of restricted glyph sets, weights, styles, sloppy hinting, etc.
As PrintDriver pointed out, many free fonts are so technically bad (live traced, open paths, redundant control points, overlapping paths, reversed control handles, etc.) that they'll cause fatal PostScript errors or result in dropped characters, weird glyph substitutions, broken compound paths and other unwanted and expensive output errors. And to make things worse, a typical user of a free font won't notice the difference until the proof comes back or, worse still, the job is printed. ISitude, as you mentioned, they're similar but different designs. I was comparing the two fonts' attention to detail and their technical quality. For what it's worth, I like the overall design of Oswald, and chose the font several months ago for a client's video project. Oswald actually looks pretty good until it's enlarged to the point where the irregularities start showing up. Also, I didn't say the font was unnecessary and bloated; I said that about the large number of anchor points.
I'll actually compliment Vernon Adams on the font and how successful it's been. I don't blame him at all for not taking the thousands of hours needed to produce a free font family to the tolerances typical of high-quality commercial fonts. All this aside, what I'm really saying is that a designer shouldn't assume that free fonts (even the better ones, like Oswald) are produced to the same level of quality that one might expect from an expensive, high-quality font from a commercial foundary.
DIN has always been the typeface you root for—the one you wanted to use but just couldn’t bring yourself to because it was limited in its range of weights and widths, rendering it less useful than it could be. Scheda Elettronica Faac 844 Mpsc here. Pc Game Conflict Global Storm Game. The century-old design has proven to be timeless, but modern use cases demanded an update, which resulted in DIN Next—a versatile sans serif family that will never go out of style. This classic design turned modern must-have includes seven weights that range from light to black, each of which has a complementary italic and condensed counterpart. The family also included four rounded designs, stretching the original concept’s range and core usability. DIN Next also boasts a suite of small capitals, old style figures, subscript, superscript and several alternate characters. A quintessential 20th-century design, its predecessor DIN was based on geometric shapes and was intended for use on traffic signs and technical documentation. Akira Kobayashi’s update made slight changes to the design, rounding the formerly squared-off corner angles to humanize the family.
Rooted in over 100-years of history, it’s safe to say that there will always be a demand for the DIN design, and thanks to DIN Next, now it’s as usable as it is desired. Wondering what will pair with it perfectly? Check out Agmena™, Bembo® Book, Cardamon™, Joanna® Nova, FF Quadraat® and Quitador™.