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Eclipse B612

19 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2019-01-20 · latest 2026-05-18

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  1. French + fonts = B612 @ https://github.com/polarsys/b612
    comment by contingencies · 2026-05-18 · in Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth
  2. …README file is now redirecting to a gambling site, probably due to Intactile going out of business? https://github.com/polarsys/b612/issues/37
    comment by BasilPH · 2025-09-03 · in Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
  3. …unambiguous in the sense of hard to convert one into another by masking or adding parts: [0] https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/B612-Leafl... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift
    comment by FabHK · 2025-09-03 · in Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
  4. There is a PDF and a PNG in the docs/ folder ( https://github.com/polarsys/b612/tree/master/docs ), too.
    comment by asciimo · 2025-09-03 · in Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
  5. The leaflet ( https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/B612-Leafl... ) explains the design thinking behind this. They call them "light traps", though I'm not totally convinced they work well when antialiasing is used.
    comment by killermonkeys · 2025-09-03 · in Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
  6. …and the contrast between the different strokes of the character is reinforced." From page 8 of: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/B612-Leafl... The doc also has a photo of their experimental test environment…
    comment by sho_hn · 2025-09-03 · in Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
  7. There is actually a sample in the repo: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/sample.png .
    comment by oniony · 2025-09-03 · in Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
  8. …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...
    comment by illamint · 2025-09-03 · in Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
  9. Sample: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/sample.png
    comment by java-man · 2025-09-03 · in Airbus B612 Cockpit Font
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    story by Bogdanp · 2025-09-03 · 97 comments
  11. Found a git issue that indicates the slashed 0 is in private use area of the font https://github.com/polarsys/b612/issues/20#issuecomment-5448... To answer the grandparent, unslashed 0s are used in numerical figures (speed, pressure) while…
    comment by jazzyjackson · 2024-09-17 · in Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
  12. …to contribute due to a lack of merge rights, since they weren't elected by the Eclipse foundation. https://github.com/polarsys/b612/issues/10#issuecomment-4719... The only user who's demonstrated merge rights on the repo is the repo's…
    comment by starkparker · 2023-09-15 · in B612 Font Family
  13. …is almost four years old, maybe someone here who is familiar with the tooling could contribute? https://github.com/polarsys/b612/issues/24 https://github.com/polarsys/b612/issues/20#issuecomment-5448...
    comment by ricardobeat · 2023-09-15 · in B612 Font Family
  14. * https://github.com/polarsys/b612/issues/20
    comment by throw0101b · 2023-09-15 · in B612 Font Family
  15. Still my favourite: https://github.com/blobject/agave Here's another company font: https://github.com/polarsys/b612
    comment by alexmyczko · 2023-05-13 · in Intel One Mono Typeface
  16. IMHO Airbus' effort is better. https://github.com/polarsys/b612 Serifs are known to be less readable on screens. Each to their own but to me that MonoLisa thing is sort of half-serif... it's ... inconsistent and terrible. Possibly a joke.
    comment by contingencies · 2022-02-14 · in MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
  17. …terms of legibility and comfort of reading, and to optimize the overall homogeneity of the cockpit. https://github.com/polarsys/b612 Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946601 re: Site presentation, I think having…
    comment by contingencies · 2021-10-28 · in I created a front page Show HN project CodingFont.com with low code
  18. …at B612, a font designed in cooperation with Airbus specifically for visibility inside cockpits: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/B612-Leafl...
    comment by hlieberman · 2020-02-23 · in Routed Gothic Font
  19. https://github.com/polarsys/b612
    comment by synack · 2019-01-20 · in B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens