B612

Sans Serif · by Nicolas Chauveau, Thomas Paillot, Jonathan Favre-Lamarine, Jean-Luc Vinot · 4 styles

Download

B612.zip · 463 KB · 5 files including OFL.txt

Typography profile

Weights
400 and 700
Italics
Every weight
Scripts
Latin
Best for
  • Data-dense screens
  • UI labels
  • Technical interfaces
Consider alternatives for
  • Scripts other than Latin
  • Hierarchies that need several weights
Characteristics
  • Humanist details
  • Legibility-focused
  • Technical

Styles

32px

  1. B612 Regular 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  2. B612 Regular 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  3. B612 Italic 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  4. B612 Italic 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  5. B612 Bold 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  6. B612 Bold 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  7. B612 Bold Italic 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  8. B612 Bold Italic 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Pairs well with

  • Mono

    B612 Mono

    The same design drawn to a fixed width. Keep labels and prose in B612 and switch to the Mono for codes and figures that must line up in columns: the text changes rhythm, not voice.

BPOZZ Design Note

B612 came out of a research collaboration between Airbus, ENAC and Université de Toulouse III to improve how text reads on cockpit screens; it was designed and tested for that use, with particular attention to degraded viewing conditions. The brief covered isolated terms, mixed capitals and numbers, lists and abbreviations — the same material dashboards and status screens are made of.

BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.

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About B612

About
A sans serif designed and tested by Airbus and partners for aircraft cockpit screens, where data must stay readable in degraded conditions. Four styles, regular and bold with italics.
Designer
Nicolas Chauveau, Thomas Paillot, Jonathan Favre-Lamarine, Jean-Luc Vinot
Version
1.008
Category
Sans Serif
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1

You may use, embed, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial projects. The font files may not be sold on their own. Read the full license (OFL.txt).

Copyright 2012 The B612 Project Authors (https://github.com/polarsys/b612)

Source
Google Fonts

Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository; the WOFF2 files used for the previews on this page are compressed from them. Added to Google Fonts 21 Nov 2018.

Upstream project: github.com/polarsys/b612.

Available styles
  • Regular 400
  • Italic 400
  • Bold 700
  • Bold Italic 700
Available formats
  • TTF download
  • WOFF2 web preview
Character sets
Latin