Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
https://github.com/polarsys/b612
#HackerNews #Airbus #B612 #Cockpit #Font #aviation #design #typography #open-source #aircraft
The #OS1337 [website](https://os1337.com) has been updated.
- We moved from #UbuntuMono to #B612Mono because the #B612 font family is licensed under SIL OFL and #Ubuntu's fonts have their own licenses.
- Also B612 is a *superior font* given that #Airbus got it designed, tested, and certified for *Civil Aviation Use*, which means it got extensive testing under harsh conditions.
Aesthetically, it's not much different!
Designing Safety-critical #interface s entails proving the #safety and operational #usability of each component.
See this experimentation-based
#typographical #design #study for safety-critical contexts.
https://enac.hal.science/hal-01022511/file/Legible_are_you_sure-.pdf
It lead #Airbus to engage a group of designers to create a special #truetype #font, called B612. You can use #B612 for free:
https://b612-font.com/
@StephenTallentyre this B612 font has a humanist quality to it.... no surprise there, humanist fonts are very readable. BUT....there a some brutal incisions, dunno if i'd use it as a display font.... eg. in a massive title.
would be interesting to compare to #fira and #ruluko. last i checked ruluko only had a regular, no bold or even italic, so #B612 wins there!
surprised that a european-made font site has goog javascript tracking on the page, but thanks for the share. i dont access goog or m$haft servers.
tell me if the site ever links to an independent forge and drops that goog tracker.... i'll boost. thanks.
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