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 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 , New Century and 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 will have had extensive testing under adverse conditions such as vibrations, G-Forces,dim & no light ad well as harsh ciunterlight whereas is optimized for everyday reading from paper and education like in classrooms...

I put both into my 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 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 and maybe I'll switch to that font as well - if not for my own website then at least for OS/1337...

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, and many others are known to buy License Plate Pressing Machines from ...

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

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