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A typeface designed for reading comfort and safety in aeroplane cockpits.
A typeface designed for reading comfort and safety in aeroplane cockpits.
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== Description ==
== Description ==


B612 is a digital font designed to be used in an aeronautical context. B612 is built with legibility as it’s core: every character is designed to be highly recognizable even in critical reading conditions. B612 drawing has been optimized for screen display, and full hinting has been added to all sizes of alpha numeric characters. Two families are available, B612 & B612 Mono, each one providing Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic variants.
B612 is a digital font designed to be used in an aeronautical context. B612 is built with legibility as it’s core: every character is designed to be highly recognizable even in critical reading conditions. B612 drawing has been optimized for screen display, and full hinting has been added to all sizes of alpha numeric characters. Two families are available, B612 & B612 Mono, each one providing Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic variants.
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== Characteristics ==
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| [https://www.polarsys.org/projects/polarsys.b612]
| [https://www.polarsys.org/projects/polarsys.b612]
| TTF
| TTF
| Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0
| Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 [https://bugs.polarsys.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1725]
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| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509386
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| https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=25974
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Latest revision as of 13:25, 10 December 2017

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A typeface designed for reading comfort and safety in aeroplane cockpits.

Description

B612 is a digital font designed to be used in an aeronautical context. B612 is built with legibility as it’s core: every character is designed to be highly recognizable even in critical reading conditions. B612 drawing has been optimized for screen display, and full hinting has been added to all sizes of alpha numeric characters. Two families are available, B612 & B612 Mono, each one providing Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic variants.

Characteristics

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
[1] TTF Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509386 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=25974 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/polarsys-b612-fonts
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