[post] B612

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+---
+title: "B612"
+date: 2024-03-09T08:38:03-08:00
+description: An open source font I rediscovered recently.
+categories: Tech
+tags: [Fonts]
+resources:
+  - name: specimen
+    src: specimen.png
+    title: B612 and B612 Mono
+    params:
+      alt: "
+      A specimen of B612 and B612 Mono. The same “quick brown fox” pangram sentence is
+      set in each font on separate lines.
+      "
+---
+
+I recently rediscovered [B612][b612], a font comissioned by AirBus to serve as
+the font for their airplanes' instrument panels. They made it open source
+several years ago.
+
+{{% figures/image name=specimen class=content-width shouldResize=false %}}
+
+[b612]: https://b612-font.com