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There are no DIN-style fonts in Google Fonts, as far as I can tell. I would love to see Altinn-DIN be added. I'm not associated with Google in any other way than being an end-user, and IANAL, but I see very few obstacles on the road there. If you're interested, please review https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md for the details.

Of the chief requirements mentioned there, Altinn-DIN ticks most of the boxes. The font has to be OFL licensed☑, should have a public git repository☑, have open participation☑, and meet quality standards (looking good). A quick review shows that the changes would be fairly limited:

• There must be no Reserved Font Name in the license
• I ran the FontBakery test on Altinn-DIN's Regular OTF, and it came with a few minor tweaks (and one of them will actually result in the font becoming more consistent between Mac/Windows/Linux and assorted software, the rest is dotting the i's and crossing the t's if you pardon the pun).

So, the questions I have before trying to fix the technical nits are:

• Would you be willing to drop the Reserved Font Names?
• Would you be willing to rename the font? Google appears to have infrastructure within Google Fonts to credit Alltin in other ways.
• Are you accepting pull requests to tackle the minor issues uncovered by fontbakery?

I could easily resolve these issues by forking the repo and take the brand of footwear approach and Just Do Something, but I know I'm a far better contributor than I am an organizer, and I'm not a big fan of the eternal forking of open source, so I thought I'd ask!

We should improve this font and "make numbers monospace", to solve issues like the one described here: Altinn/altinn-studio#7034 (comment)

This will also be perfectly in line with the proprietary DIN-font currently used on altinn.no, and will make replacing that font simpler.