README.md
1# PolarSys B612 font family
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3B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.
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5Main characteristics are:
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7- Maximize the distance between the forms of the characters
8- Respect the primitives of the different letters
9- Harmonize the forms and their spacing
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11## The genesis of PolarSys B612
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13In 2010, Airbus initiated a research collaboration with [ENAC](http://www.enac.fr) and [Université de Toulouse III](http://www.univ-tlse3.fr/) on a prospective study to define and validate an “Aeronautical Font”: the challenge was to improve the display of information on the cockpit screens, in particular in terms of legibility and comfort of reading, and to optimize the overall homogeneity of the cockpit.
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152 years later, [Airbus](http://www.airbus.com) came to find [Intactile DESIGN](http://intactile.com) to work on the design of the eight typographic variants of the font. This one, baptized B612 in reference to the imaginary asteroid of the aviator Saint‑Exupéry, benefited from a complete hinting on all the characters.
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17## Releasing a new version of the font
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19- Update the version number in the font info of the source files
20- Make a copy of the source files
21- Open the copies in Fontlab
22- Run the merge intersection command on each file
23- Generate the ttf files
24- Run the build script from the scripts folder to fix digital signature
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26## Copyright
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28Copyright (c) 2012, AIRBUS (airbus-group.com). All rights reserved.
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30## License
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32This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v1.0 and the SIL Open Font License v1.1 which accompanies this distribution. The Eclipse Public License is available at [http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html](http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html) and the Eclipse Distribution License is available at [http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php](http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php). The SIL Open Font License v1.1 is available at [https://scripts.sil.org/OFL](https://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
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