Re:Adrian Frutiger has died
by pavlov on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @06:24PM
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True, DIN certainly is a compromise. Of course the version we're accustomed to is never the 1931 standard committee's original take, but a digital modernization.
The de rigueur digital version is FF DIN by FontFont, which was released in 1995:
The changes made in this 1995 version are described thus:
"The shape of the new FF DIN differs from the original mostly by thinner horizontal strokes and by more fluent curves."
So, sounds like you're absolutely right -- line thickness and curvature were reworked to make the typeface more generally useful. (To my taste, all the weights of FF DIN look excellent on a high-dpi screen.)
The de rigueur digital version is FF DIN by FontFont, which was released in 1995:
https://www.fontshop.com/families/ff-din
The changes made in this 1995 version are described thus:
"The shape of the new FF DIN differs from the original mostly by thinner horizontal strokes and by more fluent curves."
So, sounds like you're absolutely right -- line thickness and curvature were reworked to make the typeface more generally useful. (To my taste, all the weights of FF DIN look excellent on a high-dpi screen.)