B612 Mono

Try B612 Mono

Weights and styles

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

About B612 Mono

B612 Mono is a monospaced typeface in which every character occupies the same width. It is the fixed-width variation of B612, a family that Airbus had designed and tested for cockpit screens, where text has to stay legible in degraded viewing conditions. The specimen shows how characters are kept apart: the figure 1 has a flag and a foot, the lowercase i and j carry serif-like bars, the l curves at its base, and apertures stay open. According to the official notes, research began in 2010 with ENAC and Université de Toulouse III, and the fonts were drawn in 2012 at the agency Intactile Design; the name refers to the asteroid in Saint-Exupéry's story. Four static files are provided: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. The 590 glyphs cover Western European Latin and include Greek characters.

Where B612 Mono works

Source code and terminals

Fixed character widths keep indentation and columns aligned, and the distinct 1, i and l reduce misreadings in identifiers.

Logs and data tables

Rows of mixed capitals and numbers, which the family was tested on, line up digit under digit.

Instrument-style displays

The design brief was text on cockpit screens, a close match for embedded panels and monitoring dashboards.

Code samples in documentation

Bold and italic styles allow highlighted keywords and comments inside a code block.

Serial numbers and codes

Reference codes, coordinates and part numbers stay unambiguous character by character.

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 Mono

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 Mono 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 Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/B612Mono-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "B612 Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/B612Mono-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "B612 Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/B612Mono-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "B612 Mono";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/B612Mono-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "B612 Mono", monospace;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves B612 Mono 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+Mono:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two weights

B612 Mono offers Regular 400 and Bold 700 with italics; there are no light or medium weights.

Western European Latin

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

Static files

B612 Mono is not a variable font; the family is four separate files.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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