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DINish v4.003: Rebuild variable font

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@driehuis driehuis released this 22 Dec 23:39
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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.