README.txt

B612 Mono
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Designer: Nicolas Chauveau, Thomas Paillot, Jonathan Favre-Lamarine, Jean-Luc Vinot
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see OFL.txt)
Styles: 4
Source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/B612+Mono

B612 is an highly legible open source font family, designed and tested to be
used on aircraft cockpit screens. 
Its design makes it particularly suitable for degraded contexts (ensuring
legibility and readability of data), with a positive effect on reducing visual
fatigue and cognitive load. 
Particular attention was given to the uniformity of the typeface, whether
being used for isolated terms, reading information on a map, mixing capital
letters and numbers, waypoint lists, long or abbreviated texts, specific terms
and data in the aeronautical field.

In 2010, Airbus initiated a research collaboration with ENAC and Université
de Toulouse III on a prospective study to define and validate an
“Aeronautical Font”: the challenge was to improve the display of textual
data information on all cockpit screens, concerning more specifically
legibility, readability and reading comfort, and to enhance the overall
cockpit consistency. 
The typographical research was conducted through iterations from
experimentation to design. 
Two years later, Airbus came to Intactile DESIGN in order to design and
develop the eight variants of the font. 
Baptized B612 in reference to the imaginary asteroid of the aviator Antoine de
Saint‑Exupéry, the font has been optimised following a calligraphic
approach, in order to preserve the readable qualities of humanist typefaces
like réales and incises, but also the technical and functional image of sans
serif or bitmap.

B612 is a two-weight font family including roman and italic styles but also a
monospaced variation, B612 Mono. 
It was designed in 2012 by Nicolas Chauveau, Thomas Paillot and Jonathan
Favre-Lamarine from the design agency Intactile DESIGN, and Jean-Luc Vinot
from ENAC (French National University of Civil Aviation) Interactive
Informatics Team for Laurent Spaggiari from the Airbus Human Factors
department — prior research by Jean‑Luc Vinot (DGAC/DSNA) and Sylvie
Athènes (Université de Toulouse III). 
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. 
B612 project was awarded the Observeur du Design: Industry Star in 2018.

Updated 2019-03: Updated to latest upstream release.

The B612 project is led by Polarsys, an Eclipse Working Group created by large
industry players and by tools providers to collaborate on the creation and
support of Open Source tools for the development of embedded systems.
To contribute, see github.com/polarsys/b612

This font is free to use, share and modify under its license.
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