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American Type Founders
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American Type Founders Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United States at the time. The new com
ATF's 1923 specimen book explains that its goal is to 'discourage unhealthy competition' in the printing industry.
ATF's 1923 specimen book explains that its goal is to 'discourage unhealthy competition' in the printing industry.
OCR-A
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OCR-A is a font issued in 1966 and first implemented in 1968. A special font was needed in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be reco
American Type Founders
…reproduce the same in offset and letterpress and the result was the lovely Century Nova (1965). ATF also produced the first optically scanning typeface, OCR-A, in 1969 and this remains the standard on printed bank checks to this day. A venture was made into photocomposition with the ATF Typesetter. Introduced…
OCR-A on a German bank check. The ⑂, ⑀ and ⑁ characters are used to delimit particular fields in the machine-readable line (shown here partially pixel
OCR-A on a German bank check. The ⑂, ⑀ and ⑁ characters are used to delimit particular fields in the machine-readable line (shown here partially pixelized out).