FONTLOG for DINish font family ------------------------ This file provides detailed information on the DINish font software. This information should be distributed along with the DINish fonts and any derivative works. Basic Font Information ---------------------- Copyright (c) 2021, Bert Driehuis (https://github.com/playbeing/dinish) Copyright (c) 2019, Altinn (https://github.com/Altinn/altinn-din) Copyright (c) 2017, Datto Inc. (https://www.datto.com/fonts/d-din) The DINish font is derived from Altinn-DIN, which in turn is based on Datto's D-DIN. Datto commissioned Monotype to create D-DIN, designed by Charles Nix, and open sourced it. The font is made available under the SIL Open Font License v1.1. Introduction The name DINish refers to the fact that the typeface looks like DIN 1451. Actually, a quick comparison with the standard as can be found in historic sources shows DINish to not be fully compatible with the standard, at least not as it was in 1936. That is probably a good thing. Reading the DIN 1451 standard with modern eyes reveals that it is more like a lettering standard for technical drawings than a typeface specification. The standard has no concern for how the brain processes shapes and whitespace. DINish was drawn with the human reader in mind, with subtle but loving exceptions to the rigid grid-and-ruler specification from the Deutsche Norm. That said, it retains DIN's clarity and as such it is a typeface with a purpose, if not a mission. DINish is available in three widths: standard, Condensed and Expanded. The standard width roughly matches DIN Mittelschrift, the Condensed width roughly matches the DIN Engschrift, and Expanded is like DIN Breitschrift (rarely used in Germany, actually). There are Regular, Bold and Italic variants; the only combination that is missing is Condensed Italic. Historic roots DIN 1451 is a sans-serif typeface that is widely used for traffic, administrative and technical applications. It was defined by the German standards body DIN - Deutsches Institut fur Normung (German Institute for Standardization) in the standard sheet DIN 1451-Schriften (typefaces) in 1931. Similar standards existed for stencilled letters. Originally designed for industrial uses, the first DIN-type fonts were a simplified design that could be applied with limited technical difficulty. Due to the design's legibility and uncomplicated, unadorned design, it has become popular for general purpose use in signage and display adaptations. Many adaptations and expansions of the original design have been released digitally. [from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451] Datto uses a DIN-font as primary corporate font and commissioned Monotype to create several styles, for internal use and to be open sourced under a SIL OFL v1.1 license. Altinn changed the reserved font names from "D-DIN" to "Altinn-DIN" to be able to do modifications, as required by the SIL OFL v1.1 license. Pursuant to the same license, the name had to be changed yet again to drop the reserved font names. Hopefully, DINish will stick. DINish currently provides the following Unicode coverage: - Basic Latin: complete - Latin-1 Supplement: complete - Plus ISO 8859-15 characters missing in the above. Information for Contributors ---------------------------- This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. Fontmake is used for generating fonts, as are SIL's pysilfont, Google's fontbakery and gf-tools. Both FontForge and TruFont have proven invaluable for editing. Copyright © 2021 Bert Driehuis (https://github.com/playbeing/dinish) Copyright © 2019 Altinn https://github.com/Altinn/altinn-din Copyright © 2017 Datto Inc. https://www.datto.com/fonts/d-din This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. ChangeLog --------- (This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.) 2022-07-23 - v3.002: * Add glyphs for uppercase Esszet, Dutch IJ digraph in upper and lowercase, U with breve and dotless j. Most text processing software will not use the IJ digraph unless you use the specific Unicode character: 0132 for IJ or 0133 for ij. * Add ss01 stylistic alternative to use the IJ digraph for Dutch text. * Fix a few minor quality issues. 2022-07-10 - v3.001: * Breaking change: Rework vertical metrics to get rid of the typo metrics hack. All vertical metrics are now equal. This causes line spacing to increase slightly, dependent on platform. Hopefully, this will eliminate the need to touch the metrics in the future. * Redesign ogonek based on community feedback * Address Fontbakery glyf_nested_components concerns * Fix a few minor quality issues 2021-10-22 - v2.013: * Add missing glyphs for Northern Sámi 2021-09-28 - v2.012: * Usability update: make negative numbers look right in spreadsheets. * Fix horizontal position for old style "one" in a few font variants. 2021-09-19 - v2.011: * Add missing glyphs for around 50 languages. * Add full support for Romanian, including language sensitive substitutions. * DINish now fully supports all European Latin languages on https://r12a.github.io/app-charuse/. In total, 170 languages are supported. Please open an issue on Github if any European language based on Latin characters is not rendered with proper typographical conventions. And yes, feel free to use DINish for the next Romanian bank notes. 2021-09-07 - v2.010: * Add glyphs with Hungar umlaut. * Add glyphs with the Polish kreska, add Polish locl feature. * Rebuild many glyphs in DINish-Regular and DINish-Bold as composed glyphs to ease maintenance. 2021-09-01 - v2.009: Add old style numerals. 2021-08-30 - v2.008: Add old style numerals (release pulled because of production issues). 2021-08-27 - v2.007: * Add "meta" table to declare support for Latin script. * Add missing glyphs for Polish language support. * Fix erroneous Unicode hex value for breve. * Fix a few spacing inconsistencies. * Straighten up some math symbols in DINish Condensed Italic for consistency. 2021-06-09 - v2.006: Add DINish Condensed Italic to complete the family 2021-06-06 - v2.005: Add missing glyphs for Turkish language, add lower case alpha 2021-05-25 - v2.004: Add tabular numbers (OpenType tnum feature), minor cleanups 2021-04-24 - v2.003: Split into three families, minor cleanups 2021-04-13 - v2.002: Renamed to DINish, cleaned up for submission to Google Fonts * Vertical metrics were made consistent within the family (this is an incompatible change, but makes rendering consistent when mixing fonts from the DINish family in a single line). * Glyph names were made consistent. * Many glyphs were re-arranged to reduce fontbakery warnings and fails, to make editing and reviewing in TruFont easier, and potentially avoid rendering issues. * Some empty font slots were eliminated. * Some new glyphs were created to make the family consistent and meet Google's requirements. 2021-04-03 - v2.001: Converted to ufo, see NOTES.md 2019-11-20 - v2.0: Renamed D-DIN to Altinn-DIN to be able to do minor modifications. 2017-10-26 - v1.0: First public release Acknowledgements ------------------------- Bert Driehuis converted the font sources to UFO format, and cleaned up the font to hopefully meet the standards for Google Fonts. This font is based on Altinn-DIN. Altinn added missing glyphs and released the source in FontForge format. This font is based on Datto D-DIN. https://www.datto.com/fonts/d-din D-DIN is based on a Monotype-font that Datto acquired to be open sourced. Design: Charles Nix (Monotype).