New Font: DIN Neue Roman by Philip Lammert — typography-daily.com

The Calligrafiction Type Foundry has released the typeface DIN Neue Roman on 22 January 2018 commercially. Typeface designer Philip Lammert designed it as early as 2015. It was part of his master thesis at the HAW Hamburg in the Communication Design M.A. course with Prof. Jovica Veljovic. Subsequently, Lammert optimized the font family and extended its character set. DIN Neue Roman adds something new to the technical origin of the typeface DIN 1451. The sans-serif classic gets a serif counterpart that breaks with convention while preserving its readability. The industrial impression of the static basic principle becomes a little friendlier. Actually, the rigid stroke of a Didone (cf. Bodoni) would be expected here. Instead, the letterforms receive the dynamic stroke of a Transitional (cf. Times). And if relating to DIN a low stroke contrast would seem natural, a much higher contrast is applied here.

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