Commercial · Sans serif · Monotype
DIN Next
DIN Next is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 35 fonts: $959.90 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. DIN Next is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Akira Kobayashi, Sandra Winter
- Styles
- 35
- Classification
- Sans serif
- Price
- Complete family of 35 fonts: $959.90 USD (Individual Styles from $56.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Akira Kobayashi and Sandra Winter's expansion of the German DIN standard lettering into a full family: seven weights with italics and condensed counterparts plus rounded styles, 35 styles in all.
Free alternatives to DIN Next
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. DIN Next is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Barlow webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Barlow.
commonly substituted
Slightly rounded, low-contrast grotesk drawing on California road signage and plates; the same engineered-signage idiom as DIN, with softer corners.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Saira webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Saira.
commonly substituted
A sans system with many weights and widths; squarish, technical construction close to DIN's, though rounder.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Roboto Condensed webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto Condensed.
commonly substituted
A narrow neo-grotesque used where DIN's condensed styles would be; its curves are more open and less rectangular.
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