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For a newer font in this vein, I'd look at B612, a font designed in cooperation with Airbus specifically for visibility inside cockpits: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/B612-Leafl...
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At the risk of sounding "out of touch with reality" and "retro nostalgic", I strongly believe that a lot of clean, sterile work took place in the 1965-1985 era. From UNIX to SR-71, everything mankind did in the technical space was minimal, purposeful, clean, legible, durable, maintainable, modular and many other adjectives that would compound on the idea of creating a truly better product or service. Marketing took a…
Perhaps what has survived into the 21st century are simple designs and less so complex ones.
Unix was a reaction against failed complex designs. So was the F-16, maybe a better example in military aviation because the SR-71 had such a unique purpose.
Popular and complex things from that era have been forgotten: PL/1, the VAX instruction set, overuse of manifold vacuum to power car accessories.
One can hope that simplicity comes in waves. Complexity is popular right now.
It's not ugly, it's beautiful.
At the risk of sounding "out of touch with reality" and "retro nostalgic", I strongly believe that a lot of clean, sterile work took place in the 1965-1985 era. From UNIX to SR-71, everything mankind did in the technical space was minimal, purposeful, clean, legible, durable, maintainable, modular and many other adjectives that would compound on the idea of creating a truly better product or service. Marketing took a…
“Quantum” is from the 1920s. It’s not really a buzzword but more an adjective describing our most accurate model of reality yet that physics can provide.
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At the risk of sounding "out of touch with reality" and "retro nostalgic", I strongly believe that a lot of clean, sterile work took place in the 1965-1985 era. From UNIX to SR-71, everything mankind did in the technical space was minimal, purposeful, clean, legible, durable, maintainable, modular and many other adjectives that would compound on the idea of creating a truly better product or service. Marketing took a…
> Now we have AI and Quantum and all these fucking buzzwords “Quantum” is from the 1920s. It’s not really a buzzword but more an adjective describing our most accurate model of reality yet that physics can provide.
Microsoft Quantum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba88EwG5b0Q
If this isn't full of buzzwords, what is!
How does this work from a copyright/legal perspective?
> "I created this font by purchasing a Leroy Lettering set, using Inkscape to trace the scanned letterforms of one of its templates, and some FontForge Python scripting." How does this work from a copyright/legal perspective?
Other jurisdictions do provide protection for the abstract shapes represented by typefaces.
Related to this one, has anyone identified an equivalent font for what was used in the Apollo CSM and LM cockpits?
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Perhaps what has survived into the 21st century are simple designs and less so complex ones.
Survivorship bias at work. Unix was a reaction against failed complex designs. So was the F-16, maybe a better example in military aviation because the SR-71 had such a unique purpose. Popular and complex things from that era have been forgotten: PL/1, the VAX instruction set, overuse of manifold vacuum to power car accessories. One can hope that simplicity comes in waves. Complexity is popular right now.
There are good free books available of the subject. Just looking at the amount of heat management and the required systems and heat exhchangers...