Welp, it's a failure because the capital "i" does not have crossbars... making it indistinguishable from a lower-case L.
Such a tiresome defect in one font after another.
B612 Font Family
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#12I tried out the monospace font for terminal use, but some of the punctuation characters have terrible spacing, including : and ., so things like
abc::xyz
some_expression
.method()
.method();
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#13Welp, it's a failure because the capital "i" does not have crossbars... making it indistinguishable from a lower-case L. Such a tiresome defect in one font after another.
I wouldn't say it's indistinguishable - the lower case L has a curved bottom.
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#14Pretty confusing, the banner image shows zeros with the dash to distinguish them from O's, in the example of the page there aren't any dashes.
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#15Strange, the background image of the site's header shows a very nice cockpit font indeed, but the actual B612 font is quite different - for instance zeros have no line through them. Though the oxygen indicator seems to use this font.
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#16Strange, the background image of the site's header shows a very nice cockpit font indeed, but the actual B612 font is quite different - for instance zeros have no line through them. Though the oxygen indicator seems to use this font.
The image shows a 0 without a line as well. Maybe the other one is a Ø? Or maybe there are conventions to use slashed zeroes in some places an non-slashed in other places?
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#17Strange, the background image of the site's header shows a very nice cockpit font indeed, but the actual B612 font is quite different - for instance zeros have no line through them. Though the oxygen indicator seems to use this font.
I think the goal of the designers wasn't to recreate the font in the plane, but to create their own inspired high legibility font.
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#18Strange, the background image of the site's header shows a very nice cockpit font indeed, but the actual B612 font is quite different - for instance zeros have no line through them. Though the oxygen indicator seems to use this font.
It does include the slashed zero, just not at the zero glyph place.
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#19Strange, the background image of the site's header shows a very nice cockpit font indeed, but the actual B612 font is quite different - for instance zeros have no line through them. Though the oxygen indicator seems to use this font.
Yeah, that always bugged me! The zero-with-a-slash only seems to be used in that flight plan section of the screen; all of the other zeroes are without the slash. And the "5" and "4" next to the zero-with-a-slash in the waypoint 5240N is clearly the B612 glyphs. So it makes me think that in the Airbus software, in contexts where there might be ambiguity between 0 and O or where there are mixed letters and numbers, they use the zero-with-a-slash, but everywhere else (numeric-only readouts, etc.) they use the non-slash zero.
And I wonder if there's a 0-with-a-slash in the downloadable version of the font, enabled with an OpenType stylistic set number or feature or something, or if that zero-with-a-slash is just something custom the Airbus folks do internally.
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#20Strange, the background image of the site's header shows a very nice cockpit font indeed, but the actual B612 font is quite different - for instance zeros have no line through them. Though the oxygen indicator seems to use this font.
I also miss a distinguished 0 (with a line through). With B612 the O and 0 (with a line through) could be mixed up.