The genesis of B612

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 information on the
cockpit screens, in particular in terms of legibility and comfort of reading, and to optimize the overall
homogeneity of the cockpit.

2 years later, Airbus came to find Intactile DESIGN to work on the design of the eight
typographic
variants of the font. This one, baptized B612 in reference to the imaginary asteroid of the aviator Saint‑Exupéry, benefited from a complete hinting on all the characters.

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Font family

Glyphset

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!&()*?@[#]{|}~

License

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.

In December 2018, B612 has been published on Google Fonts
with an open source license (OFL) and the source has been put on Github.

→ B612 on
Google
Font
→ B612 Github
repository
→ More on OFL License

Authors

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