Airbus B612 Cockpit Font

> Thank you, that's the one thing I'd expect to be a screenshot in a github repo.

Indeed. That’s clearly missing from the readme.

> 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".

Yeah. Their benchmark was suboptimal conditions in an aircraft cockpit. I would assume that they tested drastically different lighting conditions and exotic factors (for a font designed for computers) such as motion, vibration, and crew exhaustion.

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.

It's very readable at small sizes. Try 8 point.

Edit: even better, grab a METAR from your favorite airport and drop it in at 8 point

Maybe the taller aspect ratio is due to cockpit surfaces being more horizontal or vertical than eyesight..?

Like letters/words painted on the road for drivers to read them.

It may account for the specific displays used in the cockpit, the colors of the font and background, and maybe even interior lighting.

IOW it may be more optimal in its real usage.

Not just me. Maybe it's how it's displayed on the web. I had an immediate "this is awful" response LOL

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

Yup, mine were 650 EUR a piece new with the drawers shown in the other comment from https://trolley-dolly.de/ (one of several shops I found), though it looks like they now stopped with trolley+drawers bundles.

I was looking at the used market at first, but it turns out that a lot of those are enthusiast collectibles and don't seem to be cheaper than new ones when in good condition, i.e. airline branding bumps the price up, sometimes considerably.

It's obviously all >IKEA, but if you compare this to stuff like Lista office drawers or automotive workshop trolleys it's maybe half, and much closer to the pricing of lower-end stuff from a big brand chain toolstore--but with higher build quality, superior rigidity, better wheels and brakes, and being lighter to move around since the application is weight-conscious. Add the subjective neat-ness factor and I think it's worthy of consideration :)

I found some on sale for around $300 on Etsy. Shipping is very expensive, so they would probably make sense only if you can manage local pickup.

Thank you!

Since the inside dimensions and mounting rails are standard, there's lots of different compatible inserts you can get.

I cheapened out a bit at that point and went with double-height plastic drawers:

https://mero.ng/i/RixswvHW.jpg

Drawers generally come in single/double and plastic or aviation-grade welded alu.

There's also a bunch of funky stuff like cages to keep hot bread in for serving, and an after-market of "galley trolleys as designer furniture" companies that turn them into minibars with wine chillers and bottle storage and what not.

That's how the wife knows he's being serious during an argument. He goes and stows his trolleys.

At least they're prepared for an earthquake.

I noticed the same thing. It's the first thing I check when someone describes a font as "legible." I want to see O0olI|i diplayed.

The photo actually shows some slashed and some non-slashed zeros too. Look at the PSI numbers on the left versus the time numbers in the center right.

That doesn't seem great from a UX standpoint.

codepoint E007 is a slashed zero... would be interesting to know why this is not the default

One thing I've noticed with this font though is that the square and round brackets look very close to each other.

One of the Monaspace family fonts is very aesthetically similar to B612, but the round bracket is very exaggerated compared to the square bracket.

Set font size slider to 300px and you will notice them. I'd love to see the study that decided this was the right move. For a digital display its just noise and won't even render correctly at small sizes without a high dpi display. I doubt they would do this just for stylistic purposes. Seems like a very odd decision to me.

Firmware updates could account for this font being used on much earlier hardware though?

The monitors (or DUs for “display unit”) could remain old but the underlying computers could’ve been upgraded.