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Airbus B612 Cockpit Font

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181 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jelder ◴[03 Sep 25 15:07 UTC] No.45116692[source]▶
What it actually looks like: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/B612
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ShakataGaNai ◴[03 Sep 25 15:27 UTC] No.45116918[source]▶
Thank you, that's the one thing I'd expect to be a screenshot in a github repo. Regardless, I don't find it particularly legible. The taller aspect ratio with narrow letter gap actually is not super readable to me?

Maybe It's "more readable" for plane screen fonts than the other alternatives. It's not fair looking at a font on a 49" highdef ultrawide and saying "This isn't as good".

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1. kergonath ◴[03 Sep 25 15:38 UTC] No.45117051[source]▶
> Thank you, that's the one thing I'd expect to be a screenshot in a github repo.

Indeed. That’s clearly missing from the readme.

> Maybe It's "more readable" for plane screen fonts than the other alternatives. It's not fair looking at a font on a 49" highdef ultrawide and saying "This isn't as good".

Yeah. Their benchmark was suboptimal conditions in an aircraft cockpit. I would assume that they tested drastically different lighting conditions and exotic factors (for a font designed for computers) such as motion, vibration, and crew exhaustion.