FF DIN Variable

More FF DIN than ever before.

Precision is the mantra of FF DIN, the FF DIN Variable is no exception to this design philosophy. FF DIN Variable offers you more FF DIN than ever before. Pushing font technology to its limits, Variable fonts provide creatives a tool to dial in hyper specific variations which thrive in any design space.

Check out the other extensions; FF DIN Slab and FF DIN Stencil.

Designers

  • Albert-Jan Pool
  • Antonia Cornelius
  • Achaz Reuss

FF DIN Variable

FF DIN: the famous, faithful and first revival of DIN 1451. FF DIN originates in the lettering models from the German standard DIN 1451, and is considered the perfect standard typeface due to methodical and engineered design. 

FF DIN Variable offers you more FF DIN than ever before. Pushing font technology to its limits, Variable fonts provide creatives a tool to dial in hyper specific variations which thrive in any design space. FF DIN Variable take bold steps in engineering, which fuse FF DIN’s technical look-and-feel with the smooth and almost organic world of Variable Fonts. 
 
Available in both upright and italic styles, there is a lot more FF DIN to discover with new era of type technology. FF DIN Italic is a sloped roman style, however it is optically corrected – slightly thinner, slightly narrower. As a result, FF DIN Italic stands out subtly.  

FF DIN Variable stays faithful to its parent’s DNA, the utmost care was taken to ensure that the new instances of FF DIN Variable remained consistent with all the well-known weights. Precision is the mantra of FF DIN, the FF DIN Variable is no exception to this design philosophy. Produce exquisitely fine-tuned typography and expressive animated headlines for any design.  
 
Infinite styles, intelligent, and powerful. 

Designers

Albert-Jan Pool

Albert-Jan Pool

Albert-Jan Pool was born in Amsterdam on the 9th of July 1960. After studying at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in The Hague with Gerrit Noordzij, he left for Hamburg in 1987 and worked with Scangraphic and URW. Since 1994 he runs his studio Dutch Design and designs typefaces such as FF OCR-F and FF DIN as well as corporate typefaces for Jet/Conoco, C&A and HEM/Tamoil.

Antonia Cornelius

Antonia Cornelius

Antonia Cornelius is a German type and communication designer, lecturer, author and researcher with a special interest in legibility and readability. She studied communication design with focus on type design with Jovica Veljović at University of Applied Science Hamburg. Right away after her master’s degree Antonia joined Dutch Design for extending the FF DIN family with FF DIN Slab. Next to that she painstakingly engineered the outlines of FF DIN and FF DIN Stencil to turn them into Variable Fonts.

Achaz Reuss

Achaz Reuss

Achaz Reuss graduated as a communication designer at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg in 1983. He then worked at URW as a typeface designer and founded his design agency Reuss Design in 1995, specializing in corporate design and type. He designed the brand typefaces NIVEA and Milram. His typeface family FF QType was published by FontShop in 2004. In 1995 he contributed to the first five weights of Albert-Jan Pool’s typeface FF DIN and designed FF DIN Stencil which was released in 2022.