DIN® font
DIN is a sans serif drawn to a German industrial standard. It was designed by Ludwig Goller, and first issued by the Deutsches Institut für Normung in 1931. It comes with macOS; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Linotype, as DIN 1451. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Ropa Sans
Its upright pays homage to the DIN series · Google Fonts: Ropa Sans
Find the font. Find its kind.Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Ropa Sans02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Oswald03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Public Sans04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Exo 205by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Karla06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Libre Franklin07by class
Schibsted Grotesk
Google Fonts classes it with the grotesque sans serifs
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Fonts like Schibsted Grotesk
Not measured against DIN: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names DIN or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About DIN
- Designed by
- Ludwig GollerSource: Wikipedia: DIN 1451
- First issued
- Deutsches Institut für Normung, 1931Source: Wikipedia: DIN 1451
- Class
- Sans serif drawn to a German industrial standardSource: Wikipedia: DIN 1451
- Comes with
- macOS Tahoe: DIN Alternate, DIN CondensedSource: Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Linotype, as DIN 1451
- Trademark
- DIN is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. FF is a trademark of Monotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
- Also
- DIN 1451 is the lettering of German road signs; Bahnschrift, which comes with Windows, is a digitisation of it.Source: Wikipedia: DIN 1451 , Microsoft: font list
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
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Questions about DIN
Is DIN free?
Not to use anywhere you like. It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Linotype, as DIN 1451. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed DIN?
DIN was designed by Ludwig Goller, and first issued by the Deutsches Institut für Normung in 1931.
Can I use DIN in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word on a Mac, yes, as macOS comes with DIN; on Windows, only after you install a licensed copy. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and DIN isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Ropa Sans, Oswald and Public Sans are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to DIN?
FontKind hasn’t measured DIN: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Ropa Sans. Beside them, Oswald, Public Sans and Exo 2 are grotesque sans serifs and square sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to DIN.