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This four-piece family is the DIN design, but not as you know it. The famously, crisp, clean and precise typeface has been given a textured update thats reminiscent of rusted metal, or rubber stamps.

Underneath this lies the same sturdy, geometric shapes that have allowed DIN to stand the test of time, but with a new sense of tangibility.

This kind of treatment is more about creating a feeling or a mood that goes beyond the communication of the words themselves, explains Monotype Studio director Tom Rickner.

I think it expands the repertoire of what DIN Next can express. More Designed for display, these four typefaces DIN Next Rust, DIN Next Shadow, DIN Next Slab Rust and DIN Next Stencil Rust show a new side of DIN Nexts personality, as if the surface of each letterform has been gradually worn away over the years.

First designed in the early 1800s, Walbaum never achieved the audience or acclaim it deserved despite its easy elegance, and sophisticated persona.

Its been fully restored for this expansive family, which includes 32 weights including ornaments and two decorative cuts.

More Walbaum offers the kind of warmth thats missing from comparable typefaces such as Bodoni or Didot, feeling effortlessly approachable and legible.

Monotype team Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix and Juan Villanueva have adhered to designer Justus Erich Walbaums original intentions, also incorporating work by the designers son into some of its more extreme display weights pushing the possibilities of Walbaum without compromising on its spirit.

Text weights work well for the demands of digital environments, while decorative and display weights offer more dramatic, sculptural forms.

Unusually, the family also includes a generous range of ornaments. From massive billboards, to micro-type on e-readers, Walbaum has it covered. The family is available as OpenType OTF font format, and includes over 600 glyphs with OpenType typographic features including small capitals, old style and lining figures, proportional and tabular figures, fractions and ligatures.

A user guide is available in PDF format from the gallery view. It gives an overview of the optical sizing available and provides a keyboard guide for the ornaments.