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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. saltcured ◴[04 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45129034[source]▶
It's funny, I see it and immediately feel it has too much spacing on that specimen page. On my laptop screen at its default presentation, it approaches where my brain starts to fixate on dissociated letters instead of words.

I've also experimented with custom fonts on my (Garmin) watch and found that taller and narrowly spaced characters seem to increase legibility for me. This is for mostly decimal data, and I want to read with very brief glances, in challenging viewing conditions, rather than linger to appreciate the graphemes.