Modern Sans Serif Typefaces
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You know, it's more that ceratin artistic expressions - music, fonts, word usage, etc. - are timeless and others define a certain time. The ones that are timeless - love 'em or hate 'em - will stick around forever. The ones that define a time will still carry import but peg themselves to a certain time or event. You cannot escape that dragline that comes with it.
DIN to me, despite it's everyday usage in Germany, just strikes me a s something that will just get pegged to this period. It's not to transcending, like Helvetica can be. Din to me is a RESPONSE to the overtly clean helvetica like typefaces - someone looking for something that is just like helvetica, but with more funk or something. I just don'r see it becoming a transcending classic in terms of usage.