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OCR One

ParaType · Tagir Safayev · 1997

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OCR One specimen from ParaType

A 1997 ParaType revival of the 1968 American Type Founders OCR-A standard, digitised by Tagir Safayev as a single Regular weight.

About

Based on the OCR-A typeface developed to meet US Bureau of Standards requirements for optical character recognition, OCR One reproduces its simplified, evenly-spaced letterforms in digital form. The design prioritises machine legibility over typographic elegance, with uniform strokes and minimal ambiguity between characters. A single Regular weight is offered.

Classification

A monospaced OCR typeface derived from the American Type Founders OCR-A standard (1968), designed for optical character recognition with simplified, uniform letterforms suited to machine reading.

Weights

Regular

Languages

Latin

Tags

ocrmonospacedtechnicalgeometricscreensans-seriffunctional

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