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Albert-Jan Pool: The story of FF DIN

“ When you tell people something about type design, they would always come up with the idea that Futura is probably the best legible typeface, because people understand how the forms are being made — this is a circle, this is a triangle... People think that if they can understand how letters are being constructed, they can also read them easily, but that is nonsense. One doesn't need to understand the way letters are made before one gets to read them. ”

A great interview with Albert-Jan Pool, on the creation of a typeface I'd dearly love to own.