Elucidating,
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Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!

https://b612-font.com/

brendan,

@Elucidating @daniel also, it’s named after the Little Prince’s home. :-)

https://petit-prince.fandom.com/wiki/Asteroid_B_612

daniel,
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@brendan @Elucidating 😍😍 aaah I thought it was named after the B612 foundation but it makes way more sense now

Roundtrip,
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@Elucidating 🧵Airbus B622 font

“In December 2018, B612 has been published on Google Fonts with an open source license (OFL) and the source has been put on Github.”

a1ba,
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@Elucidating no cyrillic :(

samueljohnson,
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@a1ba @Elucidating Designed for aviation for which the international standard is English. If you like it you can fork it and change it.

a1ba,
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@samueljohnson @Elucidating oh, Capitan Obvious is signed up on the Fediverse now.

samueljohnson,
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@a1ba @Elucidating You expected Cyrillic in a font intended exclusively for English language? удачи

a1ba,
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@samueljohnson @Elucidating I'm just stating the fact it unfortunately doesn't. No need to lose your mind over that.

samueljohnson,
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@a1ba @Elucidating

It's Captain, in English. Muted. Bye.

falken,
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@Elucidating even though the o O and 0 are basically the same? I'll pass

Elucidating,
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@falken I'm not sure that comes up in these contexts, but of course don't use it if it doesn't fit for you.

falken,
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@Elucidating idk if things like flight numbers are designed to never have any 2 of the 3 in, for instance

liaizon,
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@Elucidating its far out seeing organizations like Airbus use Open Source licensing like this for anything

coreysnipes,
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@liaizon @Elucidating Agreed; very surprising and very nice to see.

untitaker,
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@Elucidating this looked great at first but when I tried it on my blog I really hated the choice to represent () vs [] in the monospace variant.

jerryorr,
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@untitaker @Elucidating ew, you’re right, that’s a real problem. I was going to try it in my IDE, but that’s not gonna fly

wonka,
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@jerryorr an airplane cockpit font that's not gonna fly - nice one! 🤣

@untitaker @Elucidating

jerryorr,
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@wonka @untitaker @Elucidating oh man, wish I could claim credit for that… totally unintentional pun

EricTodoEstaAqui,

@Elucidating

danmarce,

@Elucidating I have dyslexia, not as grave as other people, but still.

This font was really pleasant to read.

berkough,
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@danmarce
Same. Mine is mild as well, but it's enough that I spend quite a bit of time reading, re-reading, and proofing simple emails. Any font that helps alleviate that gives me more time in my day to do other things.
@Elucidating

kkarhan,
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@berkough @danmarce @Elucidating So I guess may be a tad too strong?

Personally I wished the "FE-Schrift" (Germany's standard font for License plates since the late 70s, optimized for OCR and character differenciation) was OpenSourced because it really has a lot of legibility bonuses.

berkough,
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@kkarhan
Yeah it's "too unique"... I don't know how else I would describe it.
@danmarce @Elucidating

kkarhan,
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@berkough @danmarce @Elucidating Maybe #LEXEND can be a good alternative?

https://www.lexend.com/

danmarce,

@kkarhan @berkough @Elucidating yes, this works

kkarhan,
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@danmarce @berkough @Elucidating After all, to me it looks like an optimized hybrid between #OpenSans, New Century #Schoolbook and #OpenDyslexic without being very obvious yet very elegant and optimized to read.

Oiselarius,
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@kkarhan @danmarce @berkough @Elucidating I just tried Lexend. It’s nice but after seeing the B612 Mono, I have to say the latter is easier to read on the screen.

kkarhan, (edited )
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@Oiselarius @danmarce @berkough @Elucidating OFC #B612 will have had extensive testing under adverse conditions such as vibrations, G-Forces,dim & no light ad well as harsh ciunterlight whereas #LEXEND is optimized for everyday reading from paper and education like in classrooms...

I put both into my #Fonts repo:
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/fonts/blob/main/INDEX.tsv

danmarce,

@kkarhan @Oiselarius @berkough @Elucidating yeah, I would like b612 in the user interface, on the phone. When you are on the move, traveling or using the phone as a map, a good "battle tested" font would work.

For a book, blog posts Lexend.

I remember back then the impact that Tahoma and latter Segoe UI had on me

kkarhan,
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@danmarce @Oiselarius @berkough @Elucidating

OFC that's what said fonts are optimized for.

Only weirdos like me want to use #UbuntuMono on everything...

danmarce,

@kkarhan @Oiselarius @berkough @Elucidating I checked that one. Is good.

Maybe that's how I got into programming, and monotype fonts are the real reason.

kkarhan,
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@danmarce @Oiselarius @berkough @Elucidating

Yeah, but the #UFL is not #OFL and whilst it's more permissible than any Font #MicrosoftOffice ever included, I know why @ubuntu chose that license and I do consider moving to #B612Mono instead.

#SunGalantDemi is also nice but that's one of the few #Serif #Monospaced fonts and this really is off for a lot of people - espechally for neurotypicals...
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/fonts/blob/main/INDEX.tsv#L24

Needless to say I want to find out how I can force it into #OS1337...

kkarhan,
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@danmarce @Oiselarius @berkough @Elucidating @ubuntu

Also both and do have versions as part of their ...
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/fonts/blob/main/INDEX.tsv

Also 'd B612 looks really awesome on 's like the ones used in of planes...

berkough,
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@kkarhan Hmmm, I might have to install B612 and use it in my terminal 😀.

berkough,
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@kkarhan Cheers! I think this is going to work out nicely for me.

kkarhan,
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@berkough yeah, this looks even better than #UbuntuMono and maybe I'll switch to that font as well - if not for my own website then at least for OS/1337...

#OS1337 #B612 #monospace #Font #Typeface

kkarhan,
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@berkough It should look excellent...

After all if testers under harsh vibrations and forces can read it then shure as hell it'll be crisp af on a terminal...

danmarce,

@kkarhan @berkough @Elucidating

Yeah, didn't work for me. There was another one I can't remember now.

I think my country (Ecuador) also uses "FE-Schrift" or it is really similar.

kkarhan,
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@danmarce @berkough @Elucidating well, a lot of counties do.

In fact, #Cuba and many others are known to buy License Plate Pressing Machines from #Germany...

After all, those are pretty affordable since the Registration Stamp is what makes them valid "documents"...

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