St. Pauli's Kit Font Is One of the Most Generic Fonts You Will Find in Germany
German 2. Bundesliga team FC. St Pauli are wearing in-house football kits in the 2021-2022 season. The jerseys feature bespoke designs - but not the typeface for them, as spotted by sports fonts experts @sportsfonts_com.
The most ordinary German typeface for one of the most extraordinary German clubs.
St Pauli 2021-2022 Kit Typeface - DIN 1451 Font
FC. St Pauli use one of the most ordinary German typefaces, called DIN 1451 Mittelschrift. Indeed, the club are using an old version of the DIN font, which was common until around 1980.
DIN 1451 is a sans-serif typeface that is widely used for traffic, administrative and technical applications. The typeface of St. Pauli is slightly different from the modern iterations of the DIN 1451 fonts.
The was defined by the German standards body DIN in the 1930s
It was defined by the German standards body DIN - Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization), pronounced as "Din", in the standard sheet DIN 1451-Schriften (typefaces) in 1931.
Originally designed for industrial uses, the first DIN-type fonts were a simplified design that could be applied with limited technical difficulty. Due to the design's legibility and uncomplicated, unadorned design, it has become popular for general purpose use in signage and display adaptations.
The font is royalty-free
What is food for St. Pauli is that the DIN 1451 Mittelschrift is royalty-free. The club can use them without any cost.
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