DIN A4 format
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- Gorbie0
Pope,
when you open a new document in almost any design application - you can select "A4" in the Page Size drop-down.
If you change the preferences in the application to show millimeters you'll see that it's at 210 x 297 mm, like Rasko and Rabattski said.
- Gorbie0
Working for ad agencies and now a printer - i can honestly tell you it is never used here in the USA.
The only time i've seen it is for european design contest entry guidlines.
Rabattski - do you happen to know what typeface the street signs in Berlin are set in?
- DutchBoy0
The original DIN-typeface was designed for signage, in particular for the German roadsigns..
i am not to sure about that Berlin one though..
- rabattski0
good question! i have no answer. it's not din neuzeitgrotesk and it's not gill sans. it has a little bit of both. it's not a pretty typeface but the ß is quite nice though. lemme see if i can find it / trace it. prolly is a standard as well.
- rabattski0
yep. hey the dutch one is nice as well! it's called anwb if i'm not mistaken. then again the typo on the licenseplates are darn ugly, both dutch ones as german ones. the only decent typeface for licenseplates (top of mind) is the one that the uk uses (prolly some helvetica-esque face).
- DutchBoy0
i'm browsing through all my typeface related magazines as well..
:)
rabattski, yer in Berlin, right?
- rabattski0
hells yeah! all beer no more cheese!
- DutchBoy0
the Dutch signage typeface was specifically designed for ANWB/Rijkswaterstaat, and only to be used for the signs along our roads etc. and highly illegal to be used or even posess elsewhere..
i once tried to get my hands on it when i found out this is near impossible..
:P
- Gorbie0
yeah. that's why i asked.
and I noticed Berlin doesn't have 'standard' anything, so it could be hard.
it has a lot of frutiger condensed to it.
but the "i" is so deliberatley different. And considering Frutiger's history - I didn't think that to be it.
- DutchBoy0
the 'a' in that sign looks an awful lot like the one in Frutiger.. maybe it is a special adapt?
hmm..
- DutchBoy0
haha, missed your post Gorb..
the i is very particular indeed.
maybe ask at the typographi.ca forums?
- ribit0
I think UK number plates look very homemade/crude (maybe it's the lack of a frame)... but then I lived in Germany for 10 years and think their plates look good ('techy').
One time, on a trip, my mother wondered why all the plates of cars coming from the south were white, and all the plates of cars driving south were yellow...
- DutchBoy0
excellent detective work there, rabattski!
- DutchBoy0
now find the Dutch one as the very new signs have an adapted version of the existing typeface..
- rabattski0
what the anwb typeface is illegal? oh. shit. how the hell did i get it then?
- rabattski0
do you want me to mai the ehm... the image *wink wink*