OCR & MICR Fonts

Overview 

OCR fonts are used for Optical Charater Recognition

OCR Optical character recognition fonts include OCR-A and OCR-B. OCR-B was designed by Adrian Frutiger and in addition to being machine readable, it is also very visually pleasing and may be used for non-automated applications.

MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition is generally used in banking because magnetic ink produces the most reliable reading. E-13B was the first magnetic font produced for automatic banking, and can usually be found at the bottom of cheques for encoding account information.

CMC-7 is an Alternative font used in Europe

• OCR Fonts are available for PC, MAC and in PCL format for printers. 
• PC version supplied as PC Truetype and PC Postscript fonts (Type 1 and Type 3)
• Postscript fonts can then be used in Unix systems. 
• Mac version supplied as Mac Postscript fonts.
• PCL version supplied as PCL5 printer fonts