Diatype
Diatype
- Thin & Italic
- Light & Italic
- Regular & Italic
- Medium & Italic
- Bold & Italic
- Heavy & Italic
- Black & Italic
- Ultra & Italic
Diatype Mono
Diatype Mono
- Thin & Italic
- Light & Italic
- Regular & Italic
- Medium & Italic
- Bold & Italic
Diatype Semi-Mono
Diatype Semi-Mono
- Thin & Italic
- Light & Italic
- Regular & Italic
- Medium & Italic
- Bold & Italic
Features
Alternate Capital G & u & y
Grungy
Alternate a
a → a
Alternate q
q → q
Alternate t
t → t
Standard vs Alternate Punctuation
“Hey, what!
Who’s there?”
Alternate R
R → R
Alternate I
I → I
Alternate J
J → J
Alternate 1 & 4 & 6 & 9
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Alternate Arrows
Slide → Back ↑
Swipe ← Scroll ↓
About Diatype
About this typeface
Info
ABC Diatype is a warm yet sharp grotesque, ideal for text and reading on screen. It began its life during Fabian Harb’s student days, as an eager exploration of the Swiss Neo-grotesque genre; its name harks back to the clunky, pre-digital typesetting machines that informed its shapes.
In 2018, Dinamo’s long-standing family member Elias Hanzer completed ABC Diatype by extending the single weight Upright and Italic design to a family with Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold, with corresponding Monospace and Italics. A Schoolbook Stylistic Set is also available, which includes a single story a, a tombstone-style t, and simplified numbers that rise diagonally.
Credits
Design: Dinamo (Johannes Breyer & Fabian Harb, with Elias Hanzer)
Spacing and Kerning: Igino Marini
Production: Dinamo (Robert Janes)
Supported Languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bemba, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Maltese, Montenegrin, Māori, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Inari Sami, Lule Sami, Northern Sami, Southern Sami, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh and more
Character Overview
Diatype In Use
Virgil Abloh Icons. Design by ZAK group
on running.
Customised Diatype for Rekki, London. Design with Rekki
Foodculture Days. Design by Sarah Discours
Alpina Huus. Design by Dan Solbach Studio
Demonstration Rooms, Spector Books. Design by Lamm & Kirch
The Culture Podcast. Design by U-P
