Posts tagged with ocr
ZX OCR-B
Adrian Frutiger designed OCR-B for Monotype in 1968 as a more human-friendly alternative to OCR-A now that machines were getting better at optical character recognition. It can still be found in use today on the bottom of bar codes and the machine-readable part of passports.
This liberal adaptation I created on the Sinclair Spectrum +3 using Artist II in the late 1980s. Given the lack of strong visual cues it could be easily mistaken for a nice sans-serif although the numeric glyphs still shine through.
It is suitable for any scenario where a clean machine-influenced look is desired.
ZX SEMI
SEMI is an OCR font designed by SEMI.ORG to be used for character recognition on printed circuit boards.
This liberal bitmap-only 8x8 adaptation was made after somebody requested it on one of the forums and it takes more than a few cues from OCR-A but goes off in its own direction.
The actual font is upper-case only so I’ve had to imagine what the lower-case would be like in order to provide a full usable set.
This font works surprisingly well for most use cases.
ZX OCR-A
American Type Founders designed the OCR-A font in 1968 to aid machines in recognizing the characters optically long before advanced OCR technologies were available. The goal was to be both machine and human-readable and it was a great success and is still used today in a variety of places despite being followed by the more human-friendly OCR-B.
I created this liberal adaptation on the Sinclair Spectrum +3 using Artist II in the late 1980s. The strong distinctive style shines through even at this tiny size.
This font works well if you want a dated view of technological progress.