Airbus B612 Cockpit Font

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181 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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java-man ◴[03 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45116823[source]▶

I don't understand why 0 and O look nearly identical.

ilc ◴[03 Sep 25 15:28 UTC] No.45116930[source]▶

Aviation use. They won't allow O and 0 to be valid for the same data.

So there is no need to disambiguate them.

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illamint ◴[03 Sep 25 15:40 UTC] No.45117076[source]▶

It's funny, though, there's literally an example of this in the picture located on the ENAC project page for this font in the flight plan screen:

Also seems to be more discussion of this point the last time this was posted:

It also seems like there's a "slashed zero" glyph in the font, though I don't know how to actually type it:

1. ilc ◴[03 Sep 25 17:02 UTC] No.45118095{3}[source]▶

The first pic shows the slashed 0, which is what I'd expect if there's any chance of confusion.

But in general, aviation is pretty paranoid over this stuff.