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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: 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.
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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:

https://lii.enac.fr/projects/definition-and-validation-of-an...

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37519166

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

https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/sources/ufo/B61...

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1. masfuerte ◴[03 Sep 25 17:14 UTC] No.45118253{3}[source]▶
I don't know how this font is encoded, but it's often the case in modern fonts that variant glyphs are mapped to the same code point (i.e. U+0030 in this case) so you can't directly type the variants. If you want to use them then your software needs to understand how to select font features.

In CSS you can use font-feature-settings.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...