OCR-B
Sign in to saveOCR-B is a monospace font developed in 1968 by Adrian Frutiger for Monotype by following the European Computer Manufacturer's Association standard. Its function was to facilitate the optical character recognition operations by specific electronic devices, originally for financial and bank-oriented uses. It was accepted as the world standard in 1973. It follows the ISO 1073-2:1976 (E) standard, refined in 1979 ("letterpress" design, size I). It includes all ASCII symbols, and other symbols needed in the bank environment. It is widely used for the human readable digits in UPC/EAN barcodes. It is
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Vinony's link graph records 575 inbound references to OCR-B, and connects out to ISO 0070, ISO 31 and DejaVu fonts.
It sits within the topics Computer-related introductions in 1968, Digital typefaces and Free software Unicode typefaces.
Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Typeface.name
- OCR-B
- Typeface.image
- OCR-B.png
- Typeface.style
- Sans-serif
- Typeface.classifications
- Neo-grotesque
- Typeface.creator
- Adrian Frutiger
- Typeface.foundries
- Adobe Inc., Mergenthaler Linotype
- Typeface.creationdate
- 1968
- Typeface.based_on
- OCR-A
- Typeface.variations
- F2F OCRBczyk
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sans-serif typeface
- Designed by
- Adrian Frutiger
- Image
- OCR-B SP.svg
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- Commons category
- OCR-B
- inception
- 1968-00-00
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