B612

Try B612

Weights and styles

• Regular 400B612 Regular Italic
• Bold 700B612 Bold Bold Italic

About B612

B612 is a sans serif typeface made for reading data on cockpit displays. The official notes describe a research collaboration that Airbus started in 2010 with ENAC and Université de Toulouse III to define an aeronautical font, followed in 2012 by the drawing of the fonts at the agency Intactile Design. The aim was legibility in degraded conditions and uniform texture across everything a pilot reads: single terms, map labels, waypoint lists, mixed capitals and numbers. In the specimen this appears as open apertures, generous letter spacing, a figure 1 with a clear flag, and firm square brackets and braces. The name refers to the asteroid in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's story. Four static files are provided: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. The 593 glyphs cover Western European Latin and include Greek characters.

Where B612 works

Instrument panels and embedded screens

Legibility on cockpit displays was the brief, which carries over to vehicle, medical and industrial readouts.

Control-room dashboards

Generous spacing and open shapes keep values and labels apart on dense monitoring screens.

Map and diagram labels

Reading short terms on a map is one of the situations the family was tested for.

Codes that mix letters and numbers

Flight-style identifiers, part numbers and coordinates were part of the design problem.

Application text

Regular and Bold with italics cover labels, body text and emphasis in software.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Greek (incomplete: Π, ρ missing). These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with B612

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use B612 on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "B612";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/B612-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "B612";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/B612-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "B612";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/B612-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "B612";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/B612-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "B612", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves B612 with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=B612:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two weights

B612 has Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, and nothing lighter or heavier.

A monospaced companion exists

B612 Mono is the fixed-width variation of the same design.

Western European Latin

Only the Latin subset is present, with Greek characters in addition.

FAQs

Collections with B612

• Fonts for signage and wayfinding

  Sans-serif families developed for signs, road lettering and information displays, readable at a distance and at an angle.

• Fonts designed for legibility and accessible reading

  Families whose makers set out to make letters easier to tell apart: for low vision, beginning and struggling readers, and safety-critical displays.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts