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by 0xFFFE 1636 days ago
Also Japanese Hayabusa2 mission's dashboard. I so admire the elegant design. http://haya2now.jp/en.html
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Elegant I agree, but a failure in readability.

- Nova+Mono is the wrong font for a display like this.

- Those characters in very light gray make incredibly difficult to read and contrast specially at the bottom part of the display were they just fade into the dark the blue background.

Notice the difference and much better result, with the color choice for characters in the James Webb pages posted above.

This is very obviously designed with some nostalgic/artistic intention. Spacecraft operations displays use fonts similar to those and they are perfectly readable (they do use different colors though).

It also seems to me that the faded out section at the bottom is like that because none of the stations are online with the spacecraft.

Yes, I agree that readability could have been better.