When Neue DIN was published three years ago, it caused widespread astonishment. Six of the most important international creative awards—including the iF Design Award and the German Design Award—testify to its exceptional qualities: with its extreme design space from XXCondensed to XXWide in weights ranging from Thin to Black, it creates a thoroughly new DIN feeling and breathed new life into the century-old design. But even without the extra effort, the design trio of Andreas Frohloff, Olli Meier, and Hendrik Weber has dusted off the original design with various smart design decisions.

Despite its enormous scope, the Neue DIN font family did not previously include italics. Fontwerk wanted to rethink this aspect of the project and break new ground in terms of DIN typefaces. They have now added not only 81 standard italic fonts, but also the same number of left-slanted variants (which they call Retalic). The backward slanted italics, also known as backslanted, offer attractive possibilities in striking contexts, for example. This increases the number of static options to a whopping 243. For those who prefer a more manageable approach, the single variable font has been given a third axis for slanting in both directions.