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FF DIN
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| Typeface | FF DIN |
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| Category | Sans-serif |
| Designer(s) | Albert-Jan Pool |
| Foundry | Font Shop International |
FF DIN is a sans-serf typeface designed in 1995 by Albert-Jan Pool, and based upon the earlier DIN typeface family. DIN is an acronym for Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Industrial Standard).
Pool encountered Erik Spiekermann at a 1994 meeting of the ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) in San Francisco, who encouraged him to design a revival of DIN 1451 for release by Spiekermann's foundry Font Shop International.
Sharing structural similarities with DIN 1451, FF DIN differs in its weight distribution, naming conventions, and has a far wider character set, including ranging (old style) figures, and several refinements allowing it to perform better as a print and screen text face.
FF Din is the central typeface in JetBlue Airway's corporate identity.
- Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
- Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
- Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
- DIN 1451-2: Schriften–Serifenlose Linear-Antiqua–Verkehrsschrift. Deutsches Institut für Normung, 1986-2002.