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B612
Font family

B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested
to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.

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The genesis of B612

In 2010, Airbus initiated a research collaboration with ENAC and
Universite de Toulouse III on a prospective study to define and
validate an "Aeronautical Font": the challenge was to improve the
display of information on the cockpit screens, in particular in terms
of legibility and comfort of reading, and to optimize the overall
homogeneity of the cockpit.

2 years later, Airbus came to find Intactile DESIGN to work on the
design of the eight typographic variants of the font. This one,
baptized B612 in reference to the imaginary asteroid of the aviator
Saint-Exupery, benefited from a complete hinting on all the
characters.

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Font family

B612

[b612-family]

B612 Mono

[b612-mono-family]

Glyphset

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!&()*?@
[#]{|}~
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License

In 2017, Airbus agreed to publish the font with an open source
license (Eclipse Public License) within the Polarsys project, an
industry oriented project hosted by the Eclipse foundation.

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

- B612 on Google Font
- B612 Github repository
- More on OFL License

Authors

B612 is the result of a research project initiated by Airbus. The
font was designed by Nicolas Chauveau, Thomas Paillot and Jonathan
Favre-Lamarine (intactile DESIGN) with the support of Jean-Luc Vinot
(ENAC). Prior research by Jean-Luc Vinot (DGAC/DSNA) and Sylvie
Athenes (Universite de Toulouse III).

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