DINish v4.007: Fix 300 weight (in the VF only)

DINish v4.007 fixes the 300 weight (Light) in the variable font, thanks to a report by @solarlime. Another issue was also fixed: the U+02BC (Modifier Letter Apostrophe) was misinterpreted as a combining rather than a spacing glyph.

There is no DINish OpenType variable font in this release. If you use DINish as a variable font with desktop tools, it is recommended to use the TrueType version. If you installed the OpenType variable font from the v4.005 or earlier release, it is recommended to uninstall DINish[slnt,wdth,wght].otf prior to upgrading DINish.

DINish v4.006: Fix minus in Italic

DINish v4.006 fixes the minus in Italic, for both the variable font and the static instances. This addresses the final concern in #15.

In addition, a bug was fixed that caused the generated static fonts to be mislabeled as development builds rather than release builds.

There is no DINish OpenType variable font in this release. If you use DINish as a variable font with desktop tools, it is recommended to use the TrueType version. If you installed the OpenType variable font from a previous release, it is recommended to uninstall DINish[slnt,wdth,wght].otf prior to upgrading DINish.

DINish v4.005: Many minor issues fixed

DINish v4.005 fixes a number of annoying issues:

• Kerning issues for Ti and similar combinations (#14)
• Alignment issues for a few mathematical symbols (#15)
• Inconsistent features (#16)

In addition, the toolchain was updated. As a side effect of that, DINish v4.005 only includes the variable font in TrueType and woff2 formats.

DINish v4.004: Add Black, fix production issues

I would like to apologize for releasing v4.003 with broken zips. The only manual task in preparing a release is uploading the zips from the build machine and I actually uploaded a broken work-in-progress build... To cut down on confusion, I released v4.004 early.

DINish v4.004 adds a Black weight (to the static instances only for now).

The online font specimen for DINish has been converted to use the variable font. The preview text is editable, so any variation you can dream of can now be previewed online!

DINish v4 comes with four extra weights (Light, Medium, SemiBold and Heavy). As a bonus, it comes with a variable font, allowing a designer to use infinite variations of weight from 300 to 800, width from Condensed to Expanded, and Italic angle from 0 to 12°.

Few desktop applications fully support variable fonts as of this writing, so you may wish to not install the last file in the zip, named DINish[slnt,wdth,wght].otf (or .ttf), to avoid confusion.

DINish v4.003: Rebuild variable font

DINish v4.002 is a minor update to make capital C and S consistent across the family to close #12.

DINish v4.003 is a rebuild of the variable font only, to remove "-Regular" from its internal name. This rebuild is only important for tools that change its behavior based on the internal name of a font, such as Specimen Builder. We happen to use Specimen Builder for our font specimen, so we noticed. :-) The specimen has been converted to use the variable font. The preview text is editable, so all variations can now be previewed online.

DINish v4 comes with four extra weights (Light, Medium, SemiBold and Heavy). As a bonus, it comes with a variable font, allowing a designer to use infinite variations of weight from 300 to 800, width from Condensed to Expanded, and Italic angle from 0 to 12°.

Few desktop applications fully support variable fonts as of this writing, so you may wish to not install the last file in the zip named DINish[slnt,wdth,wght].otf (or .ttf), to avoid confusion.

Update: All zips been replaced with fixed versions, due to a production issue. I will release a freshly rebuilt v4.004 as soon as I figure out what went wrong in the first place.

DINish v4.002: Make C and S consistent across the family

DINish v4.002 is a minor update to make capital C and S consistent across the family to close #12.

DINish v4 comes with four extra weights (Light, Medium, SemiBold and Heavy). As a bonus, it comes with a variable font, allowing a designer to use infinite variations of weight from 300 to 800, width from Condensed to Expanded, and Italic angle from 0 to 12°.

Few desktop applications fully support variable fonts as of this writing, so you may wish to not install the last file in the zip named DINish[slnt,wdth,wght].otf (or .ttf), to avoid confusion.

DINish v4.001

DINish v4.001 comes with four extra weights (Light, Medium, SemiBold and Heavy). As a bonus, it comes with a variable font, allowing a designer to use infinite variations of weight from 300 to 800, width from Condensed to Expanded, and Italic angle from 0 to 12°.

Few desktop applications fully support variable fonts as of this writing, so you may wish to not install the last file in the zip named DINish[slnt,wdth,wght].otf (or .ttf), to avoid confusion.

DINishPreview v3.908

DINishPreview v3.908 hopefully addresses all reported shortcomings of the earlier previews. A Slant axis was added, which seems to produce comparable glyphs to the existing Italic static fonts. Please keep reporting any issues you spot with the preview!

As discussed in the release plans #10, here's a preview of the result of the new build process, and a massive normalisation and cleanup of almost all glyphs in support of an eventual release including a fully functional Variable Font. This preview release is intended for testing and is therefore called DINishPreview. If you think it's the best thing since sliced bread, feel free to use it for whatever you fancy, but be aware a lot has changed under the hood and issues may be lurking.

This release includes all widths, i.e. Condensed, Mittelschrift and Expanded, with all weights from 300 to 800 as separate instances. Using the instances is recommended for word processing and the many other tools that do not (or not fully) support variable fonts. There is also a variable font (in TrueType and OpenType formats), that can generate all widths between 0.75 and 1.25, and all weights between 300 and 800. I tried it in the TBDR font animator, as well as on https://www.vartype.com/, and it seems to work as advertised, but YMMV. Some more testing has been done with the Wakamai Fondue.

Please report any issues to the Discussions section. Or success stories, if it's fit enough for your purpose!

Please note that this pre-release was not built using source controlled tools, and unlike normal releases, the attached files may be updated or even removed entirely. This preview will be pulled once the final version lands.

The next stage is reworking the build process. So unless someone uncovers a showstopper, this is likely to become DINish v4. Fontbakery is happy with the VF.

DINishPreview v3.905

DINishPreview v3.905 fixes the issues with side bearings and contour order that kenmcd identified in issue #11, and this time hopefully completely. The causes of the issues were varied, and mostly fallout of fixes for earlier issues that caused waterbed effect.

DINishPreview v3.902 and v3.903 were never released as testing revealed the waterbed effect in action once again.

DINishPreview v3.901 add support for Expanded to both the variable font and the generated instances, compared to v3.900. Some minor bugs in the variable fonts were resolved, such as the lower case "i" losing its dot in intermediate weights. The below writeup was updated to reflect the addition of Expanded.

As discussed in the release plans #10, here's a preview of the result of the new build process, and a massive normalisation and cleanup of almost all glyphs in support of an eventual release including a fully functional Variable Font. This preview release is intended for testing and is therefore called DINishPreview. If you think it's the best thing since sliced bread, feel free to use it for whatever you fancy, but be aware a lot has changed under the hood and issues may be lurking.

Italic has received short shrift, which will be addressed in the final release.

This release includes all widths, i.e. Condensed, Mittelschrift and Expanded, with all weights from 300 to 800 as separate instances. Using the instances is recommended for word processing and the many other tools that do not (or not fully) support variable fonts. There is also a variable font (in TrueType and OpenType formats), that can generate all widths between 0.75 and 1.25, and all weights between 300 and 800. I tried it in the TBDR font animator, as well as on https://www.vartype.com/, and it seems to work as advertised, but YMMV. Some more testing has been done with the Wakamai Fondue.

Please report any issues to the Discussions section. Or success stories, if it's fit enough for your purpose!

Please note that this pre-release was not built using source controlled tools, and unlike normal releases, the attached files may be updated or even removed entirely. This preview will be pulled once the final version lands.

DINishPreview v3.904

DINishPreview v3.904 fixes the issues with sidebearings and contour order that kenmcd identified in issue #11. The causes of the issues were varied, and mostly fallout of fixes for earlier issues that caused waterbed effect.

DINishPreview v3.902 and v3.903 were never released as testing revealed the waterbed effect in action once again.

DINishPreview v3.901 add support for Expanded to both the variable font and the generated instances, compared to v3.900. Some minor bugs in the variable fonts were resolved, such as the lower case "i" losing its dot in intermediate weights. The below writeup was updated to reflect the addition of Expanded.

As discussed in the release plans #10, here's a preview of the result of the new build process, and a massive normalisation and cleanup of almost al glyphs in support of an eventual release including a fully functional Variable Font. This preview release is intended for testing and is therefore called DINishPreview. If you think it's the best thing since sliced bread, feel free to use it for whatever you fancy, but be aware a lot has changed under the hood and issues may be lurking.

Italic has received short shrift, which will be addressed in the final release.

This release includes all widths, i.e. Condended, Mittelschrift and Expanded, with all weights from 300 to 800 as separate instances. Using the instances is recommended for word processing and the many other tools that do not (or not fully) support variable fonts. There is also a variable font (in TrueType and OpenType formats), that can generate all widths between 0.75 and 1.25, and all weights between 300 and 800. I tried it in the TBDR font animator, as well as on https://www.vartype.com/, and it seems to work as advertised, but YMMV. Some more testing has been done with the Wakamai Fondue.

Please report any issues to the Discussions section. Or success stories, if it's fit enough for your purpose!

Please note that this pre-release was not built using source controlled tools, and unlike normal releases, the attached files may be updated or even removed entirely. This preview will be pulled once the final version lands.