INTRODUCING THREE NEUE NEUE DIN ALPHABETS

Back in January, we welcomed Italics and Retalics to Neue DIN. With huge thanks to Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy 🇺🇦 (with support from Eugene Yukechev 🇷🇺), Irene Vlachou 🇬🇷, and Boom Promphan Suksumek 🇹🇭, we’ve just expanded the typeface to include three brand new alphabets.

Neue DIN now supports Cyrillic, Greek, and — for the first time in a DIN typeface — Thai (in the Loopless variant). While this means we can no longer describe the project as ‘100% Made in Berlin,’ it was important to us to have the non-Latin language extensions designed by native-speaking designers. All three alphabets support the whopping 243 static fonts, or for those who prefer a more manageable approach, the single variable font also supports the new languages.

With this update, two of our 15 (super)families now speak Thai (Pangea, which we also launched in January, and Neue DIN) and five now speak Cyrillic and Greek (Neue DIN, Pangea, Case, Change, and Ika). We are in the process of collaborating with other non-Latin designers to continue to extend Neue DIN’s capacities, so please do let us know if you are in need of a particular language or alphabet, as we would love to help.

As always, the price for our linguistically enhanced fonts remains the same. The new files are available free of charge to all registered users and can be found in your Fontwerk account. For anyone who has previously licensed Neue DIN as a guest, you can ‘upgrade’ your account: Simply click the ‘Create New Account’ link and use the email address you previously used. Your orders placed as a guest will then be linked to the new account.

And by the way, thanks to the Regional Pricing, which we introduced at the end of last year, many of the people speaking one of the new languages benefit twice from this update. For example, customers based in Thailand receive Neue DIN at a 61% discount. The idea behind this is to better reflect the realities of life in different regions (more on this here).

While many typefaces become ubiquitous and instantly recognizable, the actual human faces and names behind them often remain hidden. So we thought we would take this opportunity to shine a little spotlight on the designers who have joined the Neue DIN family.

Born in Odessa and raised in Kyiv, Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy is a Communication Designer and Typeface Designer, who studied in Schwerin and The Hague. With a penchant for a diverse array of design influences, from Stormtrooper helmets, Matisse’s ‘Blue Nudes’, to the ⌘ key, when he’s not running his own foundry (Rekord) or consulting for others, Oleksandr can be found tinkering with his bike or out with his camera.

Based on the Greek Island of Syros, from where she’s conducting research into ‘Greek Fonts on Screens’, Irene Vlachou has already garnered a wealth of knowledge of Greek type design and variable fonts. So much so that she is often called upon to share her expertise through talks, seminars, workshops, and publications. When she’s not researching or consulting for others, she can be found practicing her violin.

Boom Promphan Suksumek was born in Bangkok and is now based in The Hague where she runs her own label (Boomtype) and consults for other type organizations. Boom is dedicated to documenting and preserving Thai typography culture and has developed the online platform Thaipography Archives, which is a public visual archive dedicated to capturing Thai typography in the wild. She also runs a popular YouTube Channel, where she documents her Type Walks.

Danke!

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