Typeface Design for a Reimagined DIN Standard

243 styles, three variable axes, six years in development

Neue DIN is a thorough reimagining of the classic DIN standard typeface, designed by Andreas Frohloff, Hendrik Weber, and Olli Meier over a development period from 2020 to 2026. The family ships with 243 styles and a variable font covering weight, width, and slant axes, built around a variable-first approach addressing the requirements of the digital world. Post-launch updates added italic and retalic styles, Cyrillic, Greek, and Thai scripts, and mandatory DIN 91379 compliance covering 230-plus additional characters across 37 additional languages.

Set in Neue DIN

Insights

The family was built variable-first, with the .woff2 variable file weighing 1.1 MB and subsetting recommended for web use.
Version 1.10 added mandatory DIN 91379 language support—230-plus characters covering 37 additional languages—alongside minor glyph refinements to dots, comma, and ampersand.
Regular weight spacing and weight were recalibrated in version 1.20, indicating ongoing optical correction after initial release.
Olli Meier, as Font Engineer, brought prior quality-engineering experience from Helvetica Now and Neue Frutiger World at Monotype, and also created the Neue DIN microsite artwork, which received an awwwards Honorable Mention.