


Recently, they have become more popular than ever, with designers regularly asking for additional weights.

Linotype has been supplying its customers with the two DIN 1451 fonts since 1980. DIN Next is part of Linotypes Platinum Collection. Each weight ships in three varieties: Regular, Italic, and Condensed, bringing the total number of fonts in the DIN Next family to 21. Akira Kobayashi began by revising these two faceswho names just mean condensed and regularbefore expanding them into a new family with seven weights (Light to Black). DIN Next is a typeface family inspired by the classic industrial German engineering designs, DIN 1451 Engschrift and Mittelschrift.
