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The purpose of the original DIN 1451 standard was to lay down a style of lettering which is timeless and easily legible. Unfortunately, these early letters lacked elegance and were not properly designed for typographic applications. Ever since its first publication in the 1930’s, several type foundries adopted the original designs for digital photocomposition. By early 2000, it became apparent that the existing DIN-based fonts did not fulfil the ever-increasing demand for a diverse set of weights and additional support for non-Latin languages. More…

Parachute® was set out to fill this gap by introducing the PF DIN series which has become ever since the most comprehensive and sophisticated set of DIN typefaces. It was based on the original standards but was specifically designed to fit typographic requirements. Its letterforms divert from the stiff geometric structure of the original and introduce instead elements which are familiar, softer and easier to read.

The first set of fonts was completed in 2002 as a group of 3 families which included condensed and compressed versions.

With its vast array of weights, the extended language support, but most of all its meticulous and elaborate design, it has proved itself valuable to numerous design agencies around the world. Ever since its first release, it has been used in diverse editorials, packaging, branding and advertising campaigns as well as a great number of websites. It was quoted by Publish magazine as being “an overkill series for complex corporate identity projects”.

The whole PF DIN Text type system (with normal, condensed and compressed styles) includes 45 weights from Hairline to Extra Black including true-italics. Additionally, every font in the Pro series is powered by 270 very useful symbols for packaging, environmental graphics, signage, transportation, computing, fabric care.

There are 2 versions to choose from:

The PRO version is the most powerful. All weights support Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Central/Eastern European, Romanian, Baltic and Turkish, with 20 advanced opentype features including small caps.

The standard STD version is more economic. All weights support Latin, Central/Eastern European, Romanian, Baltic and Turkish, with 18 advanced opentype features including small caps.

In 2010 Parachute® released 4 new families DIN Monospace, DIN Stencil, DIN Text Arabic and DIN Text Universal. All these are complemented by the popular DIN Display version. Altogether the Parachute DIN series is a set of 8 superfamilies with a total of 96 weights.

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Designers: Panos Vassiliou
Design date: 2002
Publisher: Parachute
MyFonts debut: Apr 14, 2009

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AaBbCc…
ABCDE…
abcde…
0123456789
The quick brown fox…
Lorem ipsum…
ff fi fl ffi ffl st ct
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Random text strings
News headlines
Street addresses

News feeds
New York Times
BBC News
Reuters
FOX News
The Onion

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English
Français (French)
Deutsch (German)
Italian
Español (Spanish)
Dutch
Русский (Russian)
Hungarian
日本語 (Japanese)
Swedish
العربية (Arabic)
čeština (Czech)
Danish
Greek (Monotonic)
Icelandic
Hebrew
Latin
Lithuanian
Esperanto
polski (Polish)
Romanian
Slovak
Turkish
Norwegian (Bokmal)

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