B612 – an highly legible open font family to be used on aircraft cockpit screens

b612-font.com

9 pointsdetaro4 comments

I really like how the font looks, but with that comically small glyphset it won't work for any language other than English.

Wondering whether this font is suitable for coding. Any experience anyone?

It looks pretty good overall but there are quirks that would make it impractical for me and, I guess, for many others:

- parentheses are basically rounded square brackets, which makes the two too similar,

- - and + are not vertically aligned,

- single quotes are slightly curved while double quotes are straight, this is inconsistent,

- zero is not dotted or slashed and overall way too similar to uppercase o.

Fira Mono FTW.

At a glance, the 'capital i' and 'lowercase L' look the same. That'd be a deal-breaker for some.