OCR-B

OCR -B is a machine readable font, which was designed by Adrian Frutiger as a direct successor of posts originating from America OCR -A.

After the designed for the American government OCR -A in Europe enjoyed no special union popularity and the optical character recognition had made in the meantime some progress, Frutiger developed at the request of Gilbert because in a five-year collaboration with the ECMA a new, friendlier OCR font. 1973 OCR-B was declared in ISO 1073-2 global standard.

OCR-B is a finer grid pattern based and therefore it is similar in comparison to the OCR -A much more normal sans serif letters.

Implementations

Norbert Schwarz created based on the DIN standard in the 1980s by the software METAFONT a digital version of Scripture, which he presented for non-commercial use free of charge.

Matthew Skala created in 2006 by mftrace from a TrueType version of the font, which can be used with all of today's major operating systems. The shape of this free font is compatible with the official OCR - B 10, size and spacing are not.