Credits
Rick Radewagen made DINDOT at GetDot. It stands on three open fonts and three German standards.
Lineage
Each open font changed the one before and kept its license.
- 1919–38
DIN 16 / 17
Deutscher Normenausschuß
Hand lettering, slanted for drawings and upright for signs. DINDOT takes its 75° italic and its Roman numerals from the 1940 sheets.
DIN 16-1:1919-07 ↗ - 1931–36
DIN 1451
Deutscher Normenausschuß
Drawn by engineers in a committee led by Ludwig Goller of Siemens.
DIN 1451:1931-08 ↗ - 2017
D-DIN
Charles Nix, Monotype
Drawn for Datto, who released it under the SIL Open Font License.
Datto’s page, archived ↗ - 2019
Altinn-DIN
Altinn
Norway’s portal for public services renamed D-DIN so it could change it, and added missing letters.
GitHub ↗ - 2021
DINish
The DINish Project Authors
Bert Driehuis, with Cyrillic by Stefan Peev. DINDOT is built from DINish 4.007.
GitHub ↗ - 2026
DINDOT
Rick Radewagen, GetDot
Every corner and dot rounded. Greek, Vietnamese and Central Asian Cyrillic drawn from DINish’s own parts.
Tools
All of it free software.
- Shaping
- HarfBuzz
- Hinting
- ttfautohint
- Web fonts
- Brotlifor WOFF2
- Browser checks
- Playwright, Chromium, Firefox
- Renders
- Blender 4.2 LTS, CyclesLit by its Nishita sky and bundled CC0 studio lights
- The specimen
- HTML, CSS and WebGL, without libraries
Sources
The historical images are not covered by the font’s license.
DIN 16 / DIN 17
1940 standard sheets, reproduced in DIN Taschenbuch 2, Zeichnungsnormen, August 1950. Deutscher Normenausschuß, Berlin W 15.
Reference: Fontwerk ↗Railway lettering, 1908
The Royal Prussian Railway Administration’s lettering sheet of 1905, as updated in 1908.
Reference: Fontwerk ↗Font histories
What DINish and Altinn-DIN record in their READMEs, and DINish’s FONTLOG.
FONTLOG ↗Renders and drawings
Made for these pages. Every letter in them is DINDOT, and they use no third-party images.