---
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.

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[b612]: https://b612-font.com