OCR-B
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| font | OCR-B |
| category | Grotesque |
| Font designer | Adrian Frutiger |
| Creation | 1968 |
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OCR-B is a machine-readable font that was designed by Adrian Frutiger as the direct successor to OCR-A from the USA . OCR is the abbreviation for optical character recognition .
After the OCR-A designed for the American government was not particularly popular in Europe and optical character recognition had made some progress in the meantime, Frutiger developed a new, friendlier OCR font at the request of Gilbert Weil in a five-year collaboration with the ECMA . 1973 OCR-B was declared a worldwide standard in ISO 1073-2.
OCR-B is based on a finer basic grid and is therefore much more similar to normal sans serif print compared to OCR-A .
Implementations
In the 1980s Norbert Schwarz created a digital version of the font based on the DIN standard using the METAFONT software , which he made available free of charge for non- commercial use.
In 2006, Matthew Skala created a TrueType version of the font using mftrace , which can be used with all operating systems in use today. The shape of this free font is compatible with the official OCR-B 10, the size and spacing are not.
An artistic implementation that interprets the OCR-B as a fixed-width font for everyday use is the OCR-F by Albert-Jan Pool.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heidrun Osterer, Philipp Stamm, Swiss Foundation for Writing and Typography (ed.): Adrian Frutiger - Fonts: Das Gesamtwerk. Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 3-034-60989-2 , p. 176.
- ↑ Matthew Skalas OCR-B font
- ↑ https://www.fontshop.com/families/ff-ocr-f
