The lowercase letter shapes are quite similar.
Using the letters aGgQqlJ to narrow down the letter shape matches, I found: I don't know how close you need to come to the DIN typeface, but I found a couple possibles on Google Web Fonts. 'Dinish' ( Website)( Github) is a fork of this project with continued development, which has also been submitted to Google Fonts. 'Altinn' ( Github) is a fork of this project on Github. Thankfully Peter Weigel traced it for us! D-DINĪ corporation called 'Datto' commissioned Monotype creative type director Charles Nix to create a DIN-like font which was released in 2018 under the SIL OFL 1.1.Īs of 2021, it is no longer available on their website, but you can find it on a reputable site like FontSquirrel or GitHub. This is legal because DIN 1451 is a product of the German government, and so is in the public domain - only the individual interpretations of it by various font foundries are protected and copyrighted.
There is now an OFL-licensed, completely free/libre version of DIN called Alte DIN. The situation has changed since this question was first asked in 2012.
