From the 1990s onwards, more refined versions became available for use in book and magazine typography. They became available as fonts that were appreciated by designers for their industrial, somewhat quirky and “non-typographic” look and feel. In post-1945 West Germany, the DIN alphabets were widely used, for instance on most road signs. Rooted in earlier designs for Germany’s railway companies, the alphabets were based on geometric shapes in order to be easily reproducible using compass and ruler. These were to be used in the areas of signage, traffic signs, wayfinding, lettering on technical drawings and technical documentation.
It contained several models of standard alphabets for mechanically engraved lettering, hand-lettering, lettering stencils and printing types. The typeface began life as the DIN Institute’s standard no. The name DIN refers to the Deutsches Institut für Normung (in English, the German Institute for Standardization). DIN Next Font Family Paneuropean W1G & CYR
