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AdamAnt VectorWorx (was: Toniofonts)
| Antonio Bucu [AdamAnt VectorWorx, or AdamAnt Designs, The Philippines] designed EQUINOX, GraphicAttitudeMono (1999, white on black lettering), INDIOSBRAVOSTITLING (great thick lettering), MachaCow (1999, fat display face), Maharlika (1998, elegant art deco display type), Smokey, Tonio (comic book font), TONIO2, WaChaKa (1999), WASTED (handprinted). Working on Jetstream, Multo, Buchikick, Renaissance (an OCR font). Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Famous type designer born in 1928 in Unterseen, Switzerland. He closely cooperates with Linotype-Hell AG, after having been artistic director at Deberny-Peignot in Paris since 1952. He established his own studio in 1962 with André Gürtler and Bruno Pfaftli. Art director for Editions Hermann, Paris 1957 to 1967. Frutiger now lives near Bern, Switzerland, and is primarily working with woodcuts. In 2009, Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm coedited Adrian Frutiger Typefaces The Complete Works (Birkhäuser Verlag), a 460-page opus based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland. Quote: Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. He designed over 100 fonts. Here is a partial list:
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Dutch writer and designer, b. 1960, Amsterdam, who currently lives in Hamburg. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. From 1987 until 1991 he was the type director at Scangraphic, and from 1991-1994, he was the type manager at URW in Hamburg, at which time he completed URW Imperial, URW Linear, and URW Mauritius. In 1994 he started his own studio Dutch Design in Hamburg, and finally he co-founded FarbTon Konzept+Design with Jörn Iken, Birgit Hartmann and Klaus-Peter Staudinger, a professor at the University of Weimar, but Pool, Iken anf Hartmann left FarbTon in 2005. Their corporate partners were DTL (Frank Blokland), URW++ (mainly for hinting), and Fontshop International. They also got freelance help from Nicolay Gogol and Gisela Will. Up until today, FarbTon has made about ten corporate types. He has worked at URW++ as a freelancer, contributing text and classification expertise to the book URW++ FontCollection. He has been teaching typeface design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel between 1995 and 1998 and has taken up that job again in 2005. Fonts done by Pool include FF DIN (DIN-Mittelschrift is used on German highway signs, 1995; image, another image), FF DIN Round (2010; +Cyrillic; in use; sample), FF DIN Web (2010), Jet Set Sans (for JET/Conoco gas stations), DTL Hein Gas (for Hamburger Gaswerke GmbH), Regenbogen Bold (for a radical left party in Hamburg, a roughened version of Letter Gothic), He also made FF OCR-F. Together with type-consultant Stefan Rugener of AdFinder GmbH and copywriter Ursula Packhauser he wrote and designed a book on the effects of type on brand image entitled Branding with Type (Adobe Press). An expert on DIN typefaces, he spoke about DIN 16 and DIN 1451 at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin version of Ray Larabie's fonts Monofonto and Neuropol, and of Newland Black (after Rudolf Koch's Neuland, 1923). He also made OCR B (a Cyrillic version) and Dollar. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free but useless demo versions of OCR-A and OCR-B made between 2002 and 2007: ocra, ocraI, OCRAII, ocraIII, ocraIV, OCRB, OCRBI, OCRBIII, OCRBIV. Full versions: 119 dollars. Sorry, I have to leave the room to vomit. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Developer and distributor of business fonts and barcodes including MICR E13B, OCR-A and OCR-B, CMC-7, POSTNET, RM4SCC, Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar, PLANET bar code (for the U.S. postal service), Code 128 and Code 39. Very expensive. All their free sample fonts are useless (most letters are missing). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer of the Cyrillic font OCR B. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typeface classification according to "British Standards 2961:1967" (or BS 2961), British Standards Institution, London, 1967.
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BSI is the National Standards Body of the UK, with a globally recognized reputation for independence, integrity and innovation in the production of standards that promote best practice. It develops and sells standards and standardization solutions to meet the needs of business and society. After that paragraph, my brain needs a bit of rest. I think it says that they run a bureaucratic joint and that people better listen, or else. MyFonts pencils OCR-A down under the name of BSI, but I think that font was made by URW++. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
burodestruct (or: Typedifferent.com)
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Alternate URL. Dafont link. At Behance, he is known as Lopetz Gianfreda. View the Typedifferent typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Xara Ltd sells EFF Braille, EFF Barcode 3of9, EFF OCR, EFF MICR. EFF Times Phonetic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peruvian graphic and web designer. At FontStruct, he created a number of pixel fonts in 2009, such as gridnPix75 (+Light, +nLite), OCR-APix6, cayoPix45, ScrptPix5, sCapsPix4, SerifPix6, moSpPix57, ClassPix5, MicriPix4, CorpoPix5, and BminiPix5. Other fonts there include Proton Type (2009), the geometric pxlNotSqr (2009) and the sturdy headline faces Woznian (2009, inspired by bitmap fonts like Chicago and Charcoal) and Gizmatik (2009), his best font. In 2009, he added NuevoSolStile (in the Eurostile/Microgramma mold), MacroBold (ultra-fat), Steam Punker, Funkadeliai, Monocodigo, FS Mini, FS Remix (horizontally striped), BlackSQRda (blackletter), Fontscript, Scanografia (vertical striping of letters), Stencikal, Bloxed (white on black), BlackSQRda, NSS Unicase (unicase), NuevoSolStile (unicase). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK-based designer of the large pixel fonts in the Haeccity DW family (2007). From the web site: There are all the basic Latin characters with standard punctuation, most extended Latin (accented), spacing and (common) combining diacritics, Greek and extended Greek, Cyrillic, a sort of a bash at Armenian, a sort of a bash at Glagolitic, Ogham, Runic, Gothic, mathematical and logic operators, most arrows, miscellaneous letter-like and currency symbols, box-drawing and OCR characters, astrological symbols, dingbats (I got fed up about three-quarters of the way through the stars, but most of them are there), common ligatures (ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, st), fractions, IPA symbols, openface and monospace characters. Also small caps for the basic Latin and Greek alphabets. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David H. Shepard | Inventor of the optical reader, b. Milwaukee, 1923, d. San Diego, 2007. Shepard majored in electrical engineering at Cornell and earned a masters degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Obituary in the New York Times, from which I quote: Mr. Shepard sketched out the familiar boxy numbers on credit cards, called the Farrington B numeric font, on a cocktail napkin at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, his wife said. The shapes were meant to be as simple and open as possible because gasoline station pump islands were among the earliest places optical character recognition was used; the shapes were meant to minimize the effects of smearing with grease, oil and other substances. The font with a 7 that looks like two sides of a rectangle has persisted even as the numbers have faded from use: the magnetic strip on the cards back now carries the necessary information. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Font vendor: has OCRA and B, APL, LetterGothic, Courier, Script, Arabic, Katakana, Korean, and Russian fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dinc Type
| Commercial and free fonts designed by Diane DiPiazza, who lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was the original bass player for The Misfits. She is now in Lodi, NJ. Dinc closed its doors in January 2006 but returned some time later in 2006. Most of the fonts evoke the fifties. Wikipedia states: Diane DiPiazza was the first bass player for the The Misfits, although she does not appear on any album. She left the band, vacating the spot that was quickly filled by Jerry Only. Her name is often incorrectly spelled Diane DiPiaza. Growing up in Lodi, New Jersey, she was a friend of Glenn Danzig, the founder of the Misfits. The first lineup consisted of Glenn on vocals and electric piano, Diane on bass guitar, Jimmy Battle on guitar and Manny Martínez on drums. On the Cough/Cool single, The Misfits first release, she is the Diane who Glenn thanks on the sleeve. Diane DiPiazza is an artist. She is a type designer who distributes free fonts and vintage black and white line art at dinc! She is art director at mystifyinglyGLADdesign, who designs for the web, clothing, and packaging. She designs hand screened gig posters and many other forms of rock 'n roll art, retro art, modern art. A collector of vintage design elements, her style has been called retro/modern. Diane also creates custom hand stamped silver jewelry as well as a line of tattoo inspired pieces. She is in the process of recording a demo LP with the working title Last Year's Fab Rave, on which she plays all the instruments, including bass. Free fonts include Bobo, Dilettante, Modern-Love, Note-To-Self, Plastic-U, Post-No-Bills, Road-Crew, Saturdays-Girl, Sleeptalk, Sugaree, Mod Guitars (2007), Woof Squared (2007), Hatcheck (2007), Mess Kit (2007), Billy Dolls (2007), Knitwits (2007), Claim to Fame (2007), Girlfriend (2007), Book of Joe (2007), Joybuzzer (2007, rough outline), Autos (2007, old typewriter), U Better (2007), The Con (2007), Claim to Fame (2007), Girlfriend (2007), Book of Joe (2007), Ahmet (2007), Road Crew (2006, rough stencil), DINC (2006, blackletter), Post No Bills (2006, stencil), Ashtrays&Art (2006), Neat Neat Neat (2005), Shut Up (2005), Hello Hey Joe (2005), Wings For wheels (2005), Trustmaker (2005), Bad To Me (2005), BellBottomBlues (2005), DinkyToy (2005), Funkhouse (2005), Rodeoboy (2005), SaturdaysGirl (2002), SoWhat (2004), Blue Monday (2005), Betcha By Golly Wow (2005), Nathaniel (2005, blackletter), Brillo Blue (2005), Doctor My Eye (2005), Guilt For Dreaming (2005), Rhyming Bells (2005), Bob's Your Uncle (2005), Princess Jasmine (2005), 45 (2005), Seven (2005), 7-7000 (2005), Ahmet (2005), Alexei (2005), Boxer (2005), Cinema Aisles (2005), Divine Intervention (2005), Synchronicity (2005), Tangled Up In Blue (2005), Tjinder (2005), Untrue (2005), Special Edition 6 (2005), 20,000 Roads (2005), Big Diamonds (2005), Charly Baltimore (2005), Dream (2005), Fever In The Funkhouse (2005), Green&Blue (2005), Ring Ring (2005), Swoop Swoop (2005), Fuzzbox (2004; not to be confused with Bragagna's pre-2004 font by the same name), Ace In The Hole (2004), Balls (2004), The Christmas Font (2004), Beau Geste (2004), ByeBye (2004), Heart (2004), Loverboy (2004), Sycophant (2004), The Comedians (2004), Fishboy (2004), Truth (2004), King Me (2004), Snapper (2004), Blue Heaven (2004), Oceans Eleven (2004), Fresh Fish Seven (2004), Trason (2004), Your Type (2004), Da Doo Ron Ron (2004), Big Flirt (2004), Dicky Dee (2003), Boxtop (2004), Satellites (2004), Upsmack (2004), Starry (2004), Silicon Chip (2004), Howdy (2004), Grandpa Boy (2004), Scarlet Letter (2004), Capsule (2004), Doggy (2004), Little Eden (2004), Frank Mills (2004), Chewtoy (2004), Jez (2004), OneWitU (2004), BrineShrimp (2004), Joe College (2004, pixel face), stj-fro (2004), One Inch Rock (2004, pixel face), Black Hole (2004), Ya Ya Baby (2004), Blondie (2004), ShaLaLa (2004), Lower Eastside (2004), GeeWhiz (2004), Sixteen (2004), Joe Strummer (2004), Amy Johnson (2004), JoJo (2004), JodiGirl (2004), Zelda (2004), Hipster (2004), LaDolceVita (2004), LittleLove (2004), Mod (2004), MrEarl (2004), Noveltease (2004), QBats (2004), Ranger (2004), Rhymes (2004), BarkingDog (2004), BFBigmouth (2004), BooHoo (2004), Chance (2004), CowardSquared (2004), Cupid (2004), DincCorona (2004), FiftyFive (2004), FunkyBut (2004), Gamble (2004), HelloHello (2004), IdiotWind (2004), JimmyCap (2004), Luck (2004), Metropolitan (2004), MidnightKiss (2004), Mine (2004, letters in hearts), PerfectCouple (2004), Resolution (2004), Spitball (2004), StencilMeIn (2004), TypeToyNight (2004), YrChickens (2004), 11592003 (2003), 2004 (2003), BrokenPromise (2003), DincCorona (2003), DoublyBlessed (2004), EchoPark (2003), FiftyFive (2003), Fishing (2003), FunkyBut (2003), HelloHello (2003), Hoboken (2003), InstantKarma (2003), Integrity (2003), KaseyMac (2003), MidnightKiss (2003), PeppermintLump (2003), Resolution (2003), StencilMeIn (2003), ThreeCubicFeet (2003), TypeToyNight (2003), Crybaby (2003), DeepDark (2003), MajorLift (2003), Mikes (2003), MinorFall (2003), Beeper (2003), Kate (2003), Blacktop (2003), Def Caroline (2003), EZ Bake (2003), JoJo (2003), Kima (2003), Bait (2003), Dreamgirl (2003), Sugar Daddy (2003), Friday (2003), Birth of the True (2003), Soul Deep (2003), Virginia Plain (2003), Feelin' Groovy, Sunday SF, Socks, Boy Toy and Sweet Potato (2003), FunnyValentine, Laura, LonelyFrog, Pati (2003), BrokenDoll, Placemats, Satori, Scout, ThousandLies, ThousandOceans (2003), GetTheeGone (2003), Promises (2003), Rudeboy (2003), YuppieFraud (2003), Emmanuel (2002), Strummer (2002), Teardrops (2002), Busterboy (2002), Evergreen (2002), Blulite (202), Respect (2002), Pretty Baby (2002), Hickory Wind (2002), Chelsea Boys (2002), Femme Fatale (2002), Tour de Lance (2002), Peppermint Lump (2002), Ce La Luna! Nous (2002), El Goodo (2002, pixel font), Big Boy (2002), Farfallena (2002), Life On Mars (2002), Saturn Return (2002), GeeWhiz (2002), Train in Vain (2002), Massive Blur (2002), Lonely Planet Boy (2002), Littlebits, Secretarial Pool, Eight Bits, Firefly, Fluff, Startone, Cupcake, Diet Dr. Creep, Dr. Creep, messaround, Pencilbox, Crush No 47, Crush No 49, and Dialtone. Mac and PC. Plus Starry F. Hope (1997) at Chank's site. Commercial fonts: Booboy (2001), Ingigo (2001, script font), Rufus (2001: four pixel/bitmap fonts), Chinese Symbols: Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Boxtop Fontset, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Lovelight, Moonlight, Sunlight, YaYa, Alvin, Amplifier, BigBeatBold, BigBox, Bit-Thing, Boxboy, Chatterbox, Chinatown (oriental simulation), Chopsticks, Console, Cup O'Joe, dincBATS, dincINK, Dinette, DincINK (1998), Dixie, Dreamboat, Duojet, Esquire, Fireball, Flashlight, FourWay, Geebot, gomer, goober, Highball, Homework, jacks, Jetage, Jetage Hi-Fi, Jetage Lo-Fi, Kingbats, Light Series, Loverboy, Moondog, Mister Lee, Mr. Big Stuff, PaperTiger, Pipeline, Popstar, Pushpop, Recordhop, Rocketship, Roundup, Rubberduck, Satellite, Scripto, SquareBox, SquareCircle, Speedometer, Starlite, Sugar, Swizzle, Thinman, transistor, TwinTone, Ultramatic, Variable Videobox, W. Square, Wash&Wear, Whatnot, Winky, Yin Yang, Tight Toy Night, Funtime, OCRDINC01 and 02 (OCR-like fonts). Latest commercial fonts: Whirlwind, Gaslight, Love, Captain, Funtime, FiFi, Fakebook, FlameJob, OCRDINC, Tight Toy Night, Swingbats, Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, YaYa, Boxtop Fontset, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Moonlight, Sunlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Hotrod (2001), Iceberg (2001), Gutterball (2001), Homewrecker (2001), Bubba (2001), Starry Night (2001), Lady Luck (2001), Automobile (2001), Hydromatic (2001), Seventeen (2001), Whirlwind (2001), Gaslight (2001), Love (2001), Captain (2001), Swingbats (2001), FiFi (2001), Flamejob (2001), Fakebook (2001), Madness (2001), Apple Scruffs, Marmalade (2002), Queen of Corona (2002), Cupcake (2002), Starry Eyes (2002), Juice (2002), Fivebits (2002, pixel font), Matchbox, Hot Burrito #3, Fishsticks, Eightbits (pixel font), FoolsGold, Drive, Sleepwalk (2002), Icecube, Pruneface, Witness 2HB, Zerogirl (stencil font, 2002), Fairytale of New York, Levi Stubb's Tears (2002), AllModCons (2002), Babylon (2002), BigBoy (2002), ChampsElysees (2002), ConcreteandClay (2002), ElGoodo (2002), Farfallena (2002), Heroes&Villains (2002), LifeOnMars (2002), LittleRamona (2002), MerseyBeat (2002), MetalGuru (2002), Missile (2002), OnYourBike (2002), Pinup (2002), Reconnez (2002), SaturdaysGirl (2002), SaturnReturn (2002), ShepherdsBush (2002), Tatum (2002), TiniestDancer (2002), TumbinDice (2002), VeraGemini (2002), YesterMe (2002), Rising (2002), Treason (2002), Monami Vrai (2002), Robot Girl (2002), Tattooed Sailor (2002), Sunrise (2002), Midnight (2002), Kakadu (2002), Ana (2002), Ace (2002), Yobbo (2002, dot matrix font), GoGo (2002, pixel font), Waltzing Matilda (2002), Memorial Day 911 (2002), Good Riddance (2002), Boys (2002), One Tin Soldier (2002), One After 909 (2002), Joey (2002), Infidelities (2002). Working on a font for Fountain. Some of her fonts can be bought at SnapFonts. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Diogene's monospace list | As posted on abf by Diogene:
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Additions in 2005 include the dingbat faces Beautilities EF Alpha, Ornamental Rules EF, Diavolo Rules EF, Squares EF (Alpha, Beta and Gamma), Topographicals EF Alpha, Typoflorals EF Alpha, Typographicals EF Alpha, Typomix EF Alpha, Typosigns EF Alpha, Typospecs EF Alpha and Beta (which have several fists), Typostuff EF Alpha, Diavolo EF, Schablone EF, Gigant EF, Maloni EF, OCRA EF, EF Unovis (a 16-weight family inspired by Quadrat). In the handprinted category, let us mention Filzerhand. Their blackletter collection includes some bastardas (Alte Schwabacher, Lucida Blackletter), some frakturs (Fraktur, Justus Fraktur, NeueLutherscheFraktur, Walbaum-Fraktur), some rotundas (Weiss-Rundgotisch), and some texturas (Gotisch, Old English). Commissioned fonts include Castrol Sans (2007). Newest URL (2008). Listing at Fontworks. Future events schedule. New fonts. Catalog of their typefaces [large web page warning]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Norwegian designer at Die Gestalten of Friends (2004, an OCR-like sans), Kit Lean, Kit Ideal, Kit Shiny, and Kit Fat (2001, a monoline family). FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss outfit that published OCR-B in 1966, Adrian Frutiger's rounded and human readable counterpart to OCR-A. One of Frutiger's rare failures. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Face 2 Face (or: F2F)
| Polish designer Alexander Branczyk, b. 1959, (Frankfurt, Germany) is the main typographer at F2F (Face 2 Face), which is based in Berlin and Frankfurt. Other participants include Stefan Hausen, Alessio Leonardi, Torsti Maier-Bautor, Thomas Nagel, Haike Dehl and Sybille Schlaich. F2F specializes in what it calls anarchistic typography. Branczyk made F2F CzykagoTrans (1995) and a few other experimental fonts, as well as Bellczyk, CZYKago-Cameo, CZYKago-Quer, OCR-Alexczyk, OCR-Bczyk, SubberlogoMini, TheczykM, MadzineScript, BurnoutChaos, Frontpage, MonakoStoned, Entebbe, OCRFBeta and OCRHeike. Other designers: Thomas Nagel (ScreenScream, Shakkarakk, ElDeeCons, Madame Butterfly, Pixmix, Shpeetz, TyrellCorp), Heike Nehl (LoveGrid, Starter Kid, Lego Stoned, Twins), Alessio Leonardi (PrototipaMultipla, TagliatelleSugo, Mekanik Amente, Metamorfosi, provinciali, AlRetto, F2F TechLand, F2FAlLineato, F2FMekkasoTomanik, F2FSimbolico (1992, dingbats), Poison Flowers (1992)), Stefan Hauser (F2FBoneR, Haakonsen), Sybille Schlaich (Styletti Medium). Face2Face groups the designers of Moniteurs and xplicit ffm. Bitstream link. Alternate URL. In 2003, these designs by Alexander Branczyk appeared in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection: F2FBurnoutChaos LT Std, F2FCzykago LT Std Light, F2FCzykago LT Std Semiserif, F2FCzykago LT Std Trans, F2FEntebbe LT Std, F2FFrontpageFour LT Std, F2FMadZine LT Std Dirt, F2FMadZine LT Std Fear, F2FMadZine LT Std Script, F2FMadZine LT Std Wip (1992), F2FMonakoStoned LT Std, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Regular, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Shake, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Bold, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Regular, F2FTechLand LT Std. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Company located in Fareham, Hampshire, UK, and (possibly) run by David Gibbins. 150 truetype-font collection: go here, here, here, here, here, and here. The 150 fonts have no copyright information other than the date, 2001. Here are the names of this collection: Aston-Italic, Aston, AstonPoster, Barker, Bentine, Brancusi-Italic, Brancusi, Burns, ButlerCaps, Cambridge-Bold, Cambridge-BoldItalic, Cambridge-Italic, Cambridge, CambridgeOpen, Chaplin, Charterhouse-Bold, Charterhouse, Cleese, Constable, Cooke, Corbett, CorpusChristi-Bold, CorpusChristi-Italic, CorpusChristi, Crosby, DaVinci, Dali, Degas, Dodd, Donnatello, Durham-Bold, Durham-Italic, Durham, DurhamPoster-Bold, DurhamPoster-Italic, Edinburgh-Bold, Edinburgh-BoldItalic, Edinburgh-Italic, Edinburgh, Epstein, EpsteinFat, Eton-Italic, Eton, Exeter-Bold, Exeter-Italic, Exeter, Formby, Gainsborough, Gauguin, Gilbert, Gordonstoun-Bold, Gordonstoun-Italic, Gordonstoun, Hancock, Hardy, Harrow-Bold, Harrow-BoldItalic, Harrow-Italic, Harrow, Harvard-Bold, Harvard, Hepworth-Bold, Hepworth, Hope, Keaton, KebleBlack, KebleBoldOutline, KebleCondensed, KebleCondensedBlack, KebleCondensedLight, Keele-Bold, Keele, KingsCollege-Bold, KingsCollege-Italic, KingsCollege, Laurel, Leighton, LeightonCondensed, LeightonExtended, Lloyd, Manet, Marceau, Marlborough-Bold, Marlborough, Matisse, Michaelangelo, Miller, Millfield, Milligan-Bold, Milligan-BoldItalic, Milligan-Italic, Milligan, Miro, Monet, Moore, Morecambe, Peterhouse-Bold, Peterhouse-BoldItalic, Peterhouse-Italic, Peterhouse, Picasso, PicassoLite, Pollock, Pryor, QueensCollege-Bold, QueensCollege-BoldItalic, QueensCollege-Italic, QueensCollege, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rodin, Roedean-Bold, Roedean, Rubens, Secombe, Sellers, Seurat, Sorbonne-Bold, Sorbonne-BoldItalic, Sorbonne-Italic, Sorbonne, StAnnes-Italic, StAnnes, StPauls-Bold, StPauls, Stowe, Sykes, ToulouseLautrec, Turner, Upminster-Bold, Upminster, VanGogh, Verrochio, Warhol, WarholHeavy, WarholLight, Warwick-Bold, Warwick-BoldItalic, Warwick-Italic, Warwick, Wellington, WellingtonHeavy, Winchester-Bold, Winchester-Italic, Winchester, Wisdom, Wise, Yale-Bold, Yale-Italic, Yale. This free font collection may or may not be produced in agreement with Qualitype. Commercial font services, including barcode solutions (about 500 USD for Barcode2000, which includes 3 of 9, Code 93, Interleaved 2 of 5, EAN/UPC, MSI/Plessey, Code 128, Codabar, MICR/E13B, CMC-7&USPS Barcode, and OCR A, OCR B, Letter Gothic, Line Draw&the Euro Currency Symbol) and TrueType logo and signature fonts (200 USD per font in 6 weights). Sells Barcode Assistant. Free barcode demo fonts. Free copy of Fontaware (Windows 3.1 font management). Free font recognition service. Font vendor for Bitstream. Barcodes sold:
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Polish commercial foundry. Their main product is the Naomi Sans family. Other fonts include OCR-A, OCR-B, Monospaced and eTerminal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonty PL
| Grzegorz Klimczewski, who runs Fonty PL, a Polish foundry, is the Polish designer of a commercial font that mimics the letters found on Polish traffic signs, called Tablica drogowa. He also made the commercial faces Naomi Sans, Rashel Serif, Grawer (monoline with many hairline weights), Pismo Szkolne (upright script), OCR-A, OCR-B, eTerminal, and the monospaced/typewriter family EFN AgeMono (10 styles). Pixel fonts by him include include EFN Cena, EFN Elegants, EFN Screen Banners, EFN Impressive, EFN Machines. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Creations in 2011: Generic Video Game Font 01 and 02, Take A Walk Man (based on the original logo for the Sony Walkman Cassette Tape Players from the 1980s), 21st Century Dot Matrix, Diamond Plate (texture face), Extrude (an experimental 3-D/geometric font, inspired by Mynameiscapo's "Metal Hammer [beta]"), Backtrude, OneQuarterTrude, OneQuarterTrude Inverse, MidTrude, ThreeQuarterTrude, ThreeQuarterTrude Inverse, InTrude, FrontTrude, Diamond Plate, Qbet, Fun With Curves. Creations in 2012: Titanium Mines (an octagonal face based on the logo of Outland, 1981). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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H2D2
| Graphic and web design company in Frankfurt. Fonts to their credit: LT Mhai Thaipe (1997, Thai simulation script by Markus Remscheid, Linotype), LT Russisch Brot (1997, Linotype, a grunge face by Helmut Ness and Markus Remscheid), H2D2 Flame (OCR-A face, commercial), H2D2 Pochi (commercial headline face), H2D2 Lefthand (2006, children's handwriting, free). Special designs include a stencil font based on the license plates in Tobago, Alevita (based on Helvetica), H2D2TEXT-8PT (pixel face), Bizz Screen 10pt (pixel face), Audioplast (for a music label by that name), Norma (a futuristic face for V2). Offices in Frankfurt and San Francisco. I suspect that the type designer is Markus Remscheid. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Type 1 versions of the fonts that come with the HPSJ5100C printer: AGaramond-Bold, AGaramond-BoldItalic, AGaramond-Italic, AGaramond-Regular, AlleycatICG-Bold, AlleycatICG, BernhardModern-Roman, BocaRatonICG-Solid, BocaRatonICG, ChiladaICG-Cuatro, ChiladaICG-Dos, ChiladaICG-Tres, ChiladaICG-Uno, Copperplate-ThirtyOneAB, Copperplate-ThirtyThreeBC, DecoturaICG-Inline, DecoturaICG, FajitaICG-Mild, FajitaICG-Picante, FranklinGothic-Condensed, FranklinGothic-Roman, Goudy, LitterboxICG, Myriad-Bold, Myriad-BoldItalic, Myriad-Italic, Myriad-Roman, NuptialScript, OCRA, PaisleyICG-01, PaisleyICG-01Alt, PaisleyICG-02, PaisleyICG-02Alt, ParkAvenue, PrestigeElite-Bold, PrestigeElite-BoldSlanted, SaturdaySansICG-Bold, SaturdaySansICG, Stencil, Tekton-Bold, Trajan-Bold, UltraCondensedSansOne, UltraCondensedSansTwo, VAGRounded-Black, VAGRounded-Bold, VAGRounded-Light, VAGRounded-Thin, WhimsyICG-Bold, WhimsyICG-Heavy, WhimsyICG, WontonICG. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gifs of the fonts used on the old IBM Selectric type balls:
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Free but useless demo versions of OCR-A and OCR-B: IDAutomationSOCRa (2005), IDAutomationSOCRb (2005). Full price: an incredible 99 dollars! There are excellent free versions of OCR elsewhere. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial barcode vendor since 2000 that wove an intyricate web of various web sites and company names. It seems to be run by Brant Anderson from AdvanceMeants. Other business names: BizFonts.com, AdvanceMeants.com, MicrEncodingFonts.com, PostnetFonts.com. In any case, they sell almost all imaginable barcode fonts, including PDF417, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 128, POSTNET (POSTal Numeric Encoding Technique: used for US zip codes by the US Postal Service), PLANET (a new US Postal Service barcode), FIM (Facing Identification Mark: US Postal barcode for classifying mail), 4-State, RM4SCC (Royal Mail 4 State Customer Code: British barcode), and Australia Post Address bar code fonts. The demo fonts IDAutomationSC128L, IDAutomationSI25L, IDAutomationSOCRa, IDAutomationSPLANET, IDAutomationSPLANETn, IDAutomationSPOSTNET, IDAutomationSPOSTNETn can be found here. They also sell other things such as MICR and OCR fonts. The PDF417 font costs 300USD per user for one computer. Postnet, Planet, OCR fonts evaluation package. There is a free Code 39 font, but the same page issues the following incredible warning: In many cases, other barcode fonts distributed as "freeware" or fonts that are sold very cheap are illegal counterfeits. You and your organization may be held liable for using and/or distributing these illegal software products. Beware of companies that distribute "free" fonts from unverifiable sources with copyright notices from companies that do not exist. Learn more about how to identify and report illegal counterfeit barcode fonts. Fear tactics are well known to politicians. To see them used by a company is particularly disturbing. First of all, barcode fonts are the easiest thing on earth to make. There are totally free barcode packages that cover *all* barcode schemes, and they were built from the ground up. Their campaign asks readers to report suspicious barcodes - huh? ID Automation's definition of "suspicious" is "different from ID Automation fonts". This is bottom of the gutter stuff, and if I were in the market, I would say no to ID Automation. Dafont link where one can find IDAutomationHC39M. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss designer of OCR-A (2008), Atari Small (2007), Beteckna (2007), modeled after Paul Renner's Futura. He had help of Gürkan Sengün. Supported by the Free Software Foundation license, it comes in these styles: Beteckna, BetecknaLowerCase, BetecknaLowerCaseBold, BetecknaLowerCaseCondensed, BetecknaLowerCaseItalic, BetecknaSmallCaps. Alternate URL. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Developer of a free OCR-A package (originally designed by an ANSI committee) consisting of metafonts and type 1 faces found here. He used the OCR-A metafont files of Tor Lillqvist and Richard B. Wales to make large bitmaps, which were use in potrace to make outline traces. FontForge was used to create the fonts. His font exactly matches the X3.17-1977 document of the American National Standards Institute. I found some problems in the truetype file, so I used FontForge to generate OCRA in 2008 in Truetype, Opentype and type 1 formats, leaving the Sauter copyright intact inside the font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Katatrad (was: Behaviour)
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In 2012, Stawix was established in Bangkok. At Stawix, Ruecha published Seravee (2012, a didone family), and Letra Pro Headline (2012, a manicured and permed didone). Images of their best-selling typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Kral Typefaces
| Born in Faribault, MN in 1974, Joseph Kral designs and sells his own typefaces. He lives in Pittsburgh. He founded Kral Typefaces (now defunct), and co-founded the Test Pilot Collective, where he made, e.g., AtariBaby (1998), Braille (1999), OCRJ (1998), OCRK (1998), Twin Sites, Xerxes (1998), Lakestreet (1998), JoesFoot (1998), Mechanical (1999), Kaliberuckus (2002, dot matrix), Pyrotechnics (1998), Saarikari (1998), Quayzaar (2002, a squarish font), Tricon (2002, unfocused pixel font), Shaolinstyle (1998), Stick26 (1998), Tryptomene (1998), and many other faces. At GarageFonts around 1996: HannahBad, Kindee, Kral, Pooty. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Microsoft's list of barcode and OCR font suppliers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MADType (mattdesmond.com)
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Free types as of 2010: Marble Roman, Environ regular, Dorkbutt, Europa, Exsect, Inthacity, Liquidy Bulbous, Lustria (2012, Google Web Fonts), Stomper. Commissioned types: 77kids (2007, for the children's brand; the sketched faces were done with Justin Thomas Kay), AE Aerie (2005-206, American eagle Outfitters), AE Newburgh (2005-206, American eagle Outfitters), AE Summer Fonts (2007, all for American Eagle Outfitters), EEL Futura (2006, for Enjoying Everyday Life), Nike World Cup (2006), Virgin America (2006). Orphaned types that disappeared or were planned but never executed: BrotherMan, Caprice, Convolve, HipstersDelight, Lugubrious, ModestaSmallCaps, Serifity, Skitzoid, Sliver, ThrowupSolid, Auresh (1998, futuristic; Test Pilot Collective), Kcap6 (1998, with Cina; Test Pilot Collective), Epiphany (1997; Test Pilot Collective), Testacon (with Kral and Cina; Test Pilot Collective), Civicstylecom (1999; Test Pilot Collective), Lutix (1998; Test Pilot Collective), Xerian (1997; Test Pilot Collective), Swoon, Furtive (2004, a sans), the display face Flathead (2004), the blackletter face Bahn (2004), Mesotone BT (2006, Bitstream, a monoline sans), Practical (a monoline connec script, planned in 2007 but not published), Poliphili (planned in 2007, as a revival of an Aldus/Griffo font), Wutupdo (1996, Garage Fonts), GFDesmond (Garage Fonts), Drone. |
British Columbia and/or Winnipeg-based computer scientist who obtained his PhD from Waterloo. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba, in the Computational Geometry Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science. He developed these fonts:
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Monospace fonts: Christopher Widdowson
| Christopher Widdowson lists, shows, and compares these monospaced fonts for shoeing computer code:
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Monotype's monospaced font families: Andalé Monospace, Arial Monospace, Courier, Letter Gothic, Lucida Console, OCR-A, OCR-B, MICR, Typewriter, Typewriter Elite, Typewriter Gothic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MyFonts selection of OCR A and OCR B typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nelco's (commercial) truetype font set includes TxFntN6, TxFntN8, TxFntB8, TxFntB10, TxFntB12, TxFntB14, OCRA-BT, Nelco Symbols. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonts include a newly digitized Futura family (Paul Renner, 1928), in the Bauer Classics collection. Go here for a description of the old printing machines. In the collection Grafia Latina, we find Diagonal ND (Antoni Morillas, 1970), Uncial Romana (Ricardo Rousselot, 1996), Pascal ND (José Mendoza y Almeida, 1959), Sully-Jonquieres (José Mendoza y Almeida, 1980), Fidelio ND (José Mendoza y Almeida), Llerda ND, Paris ND, Flash ND and Arabescos ND, all by Enric Crous Vidal (1945 to 1953). Check also the Fundicion Tipografica Bauer in Barcelona and Visualogik Technology and Design in the Netherlands. Font list. More details: "Within the GRAPHIE LATINE collection Neufville Digital releases the works of famous typographers like José Mendoza y Almeida, René Ponot, Tomas Vellvé, Antonio Morillas, Ricard Giralt Miracle, Ricardo Rousselot, Juan Trochut and others. The BAUER CLASSICS collection includes the many typefaces from the Bauersche Giesserei. The first fontfamily available is FUTURA that has been completely digitized anew to meet today's professional demands. Many other fonts are to follow. Neufville Digital produces and markets the fonts from Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, Bauersche Giesserei, Ludwig&Mayer, Fonderie Typographique Française and Fundición Tipográfica Nacional. You will certainly be familiar with famous typefaces like Futura, Bauer Bodoni, Weiss, Folio, Imprimatur and many others from the rich type founding era. Neufville Digital digitizes them from their original artwork using state of the art technology and makes them available in compliance with the latest standards." Among the fonts to be reissued, we cite a few. From Ludwig&Mayer: Allemannia Fraktur (1908), Allright (1936), Altenburger Gotisch (1928), Bastard Mediaeval, Beatrice (1931), Chic, Cochin (1922), Commerciale, Diplomat (1964), Firmin Didot (1929), Hallo (1956), Kombinette (1932), Krimhilde (1934), Kupferplatte (1950), Largo (1939), Magnet (1951), Wolfram (1930). From FT Neufville: Antiqua (1850). From FT Nacional: Astur (1940), Belinda (like 15th century Spanish calligraphic writing, with fine curved serifs on the tips of the ascenders), Cervantes, Elzeviriano, Hispalis (1940), Imperio (1949), Inglés (1940), Interpol (1950), Numantina (1940; for a digital version, see Nick Curtis's Numancia NF (2011)), Radar (1940), Romana, Victoriana (1940). From the Bauersche Giesserei: Astoria (1911), Azurée (1908), Baron (1911), Baroness (1911), Baskerville-Antiqua (1923), Batarde (1915), Bauer Bodoni (1926), Fette Antiqua (1850), Lithographia (1895), Manuskript Gotisch (1899), Noblesse (1908), Steile Futura, Stephanie (1890), Times-Antiqua, Venus (1907). From FT Française: Bizerte, Italienne, Romantiques (1937), Stylo (1937). Their Catalogo de tipos (1978) shows many other typefaces too, so, with some repetition, we find the handwriting/script faces Vigor, Sinfonia, Privat, Sirena, Maxim, Litografia, Leyenda (Legend), Bernhard Cursive and Adagio, the federal money typeface Azuree (1908), the typewriter family Ibematic, OCR A-1, the blackletter face Gotico (or Manuskript-Gotisch), the outline fonts Royal and Columna, the checkbook face Litho, the display faces Nobleza and Carnaby, the Egyptian family Epoca (=Beton), as well as Homera (=Hyperion), Corvinus, Volta and Impressum. Galaxy ND (2006) is a mysterious, organic and quite useless typeface. | |
Quoting: In the early days of computer optical character recognition, there was a need for a font that could be recognized by the computers of that day, and by humans. The resulting compromise was the OCR-A font, which used simple, thick strokes to form recognizable characters. The font is monospaced (fixed-width), with the printer required to place glyphs 0.254 cm (0.10 inch) apart, and the reader required to accept any spacing between 0.2286 cm (0.09 inch) and 0.4572 cm (0.18 inch). The OCR-A font was standardized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as X3.4-1977. X3.4 has since become the INCITS and the OCR-A standard is now called ISO 1073-1:1976. There is also a German standard for OCR-A called DIN 66008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
OCR: Zach Whalen
| A part of Zach Whalen's 2008 thesis at the University of Washington touches upon the history of OCR. An excerpt: Early OCR technology such as David Shepard's Robotic Reader-Writer built in an attic and unveiled to the public in 1951, focused on tasks like reading for the blind and text duplication. It was not until Reader's Digest purchased and implemented a large-scale OCR machine for managing its database of subscribers that OCR realized its potential for streamlining data entry. In this way, utility and efficiency became the driving forces of OCR innovation as numerous corporate, government, and financial institutions purchased or developed recognition technology for managing large amounts of information. In order for any of these tools to work efficiently, a reliable input pattern must be achieved. The noted OCR developer and prolific inventor Jacob Rabinow writes of the importance of this input in developing his pattern-matching technique after working with Vannevar Bush on his Rapid Selector. Thus, the typographic challenge facing OCR developers was to develop a font as reliable and uniform as a pattern of dots that yet remained legible to human readers. Emphasizing the benefit of strict control for minimizing costs, Rabinow later wrote, "Now, how can we get this control? The answer is Standardize. Standardize the type of paper, standardize the size of paper, standardize the quality of printing, standardize the quality of printing, standardize the format, and standardize the font". This drive for standardization had culminated three years prior to Rabinow's writing in a standard document issued in 1966 by the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI). This document, X3.17-1966, presented a recommendation for a standard set of alphanumeric character shapes for OCR, including 10 numerals, 26 letters (capital), 17 symbols, and 4 abstract symbols. Shortly after the design and publication of OCR-A, the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) sponsored an alternative character set, eventually released by the ISO as ISO-B or OCR-B (Frutiger). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Adobe's version of OCR-A based on ATF's original from 1968. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
OCRAbyBT-Regular (1990-2001) is the OCR-A font from Bitstream. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
OCR-A commercial font choices (all called OCR-A) include fonts by Adobe, Bitstream, URW++, Elsner+Flake, Apply Interactive, ParaType, Linotype, and Monotype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
OCR-A: Richard Wales
| Metafont definition for the OCR-A Optical Character Recognition Font. By Richard B. Wales from UCLA's Computer Science Department. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
OCR-A: Tor Lillqvist
| OCR-A was coded in METAFONT84 by Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK (Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
OcrA (1994) is the OCR-A font from URW and Softmaker. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Quoting: The OCR-A font was developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to be readable by the computers of the 1960s. The OCR-A font is still used commercially in payment advice forms so that a lockbox company can determine the account number and amount owed on a bill when processing a payment. A site license for the OCR-A font is very expensive, so someone undertook to create a free font. He started with the MetaFont definitions, used FontForge and potrace to construct a TrueType font, then assigned each glyph a Unicode code point. The shape of each glyph was defined by ANSI as described in their document ANSI X3.17-1977. Those shapes were coded in the MetaFont language as strokes by Tor Lillqvist and Richard B. Wales. Their work is in the .MF files under MetaFont Sources. The MetaFont program and the OCR font definitions are available as part of the TeX package from the CTAN archive. ANSI specifies a character spacing of between 0.09 and 0.18 inch. The American National Standards Institute makes the X3.17-1977 document available on their web site for a modest fee. Unfortunately the X3.17-1977 document can not be put here, for completeness, since ANSI has copyright on it. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
OCR-B: Adobe
| Adobe's version of OCR-B, which was originally designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1966 for the European Computer Manufacturer's Association. It is rounded and easier to read than the rounded octagonal OCR-A font, which was designed for machine readability. OCR-B is ugly, malformed and quite useless nowadays. Quoting Linotype: Additional acclaim came after Frutiger was approached to come up with a more pleasing design for the optical character recognition typefaces used for computers. The result was OCR-B, which became the worldwide standard in 1973. Quoting Spiekernmann: The work was commissioned by the European Computer Manufacturers Association ECMA in Geneva. They didn't want to adapt OCR A, which was already used in the USA. Frutiger's job was to make a machine-readable type that was acceptable to the human eye as well. He started in 1963 and designed it on a finer grid than OCR A with its 5x9 squares. Apart from the font for machines he also designed a version for letterpress printing that had lower case characters and subtle stroke variations. The original OCR B was monospaced and had round stroke endings. The second version was proportional and had straight stroke endings. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
OCR-B: Norbert Schwarz
| OCR-B was developed by Adrian Frutiger. Norbert Schwarz (Rechenzentrum, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum) developed this metafont package. In 2010, Zdenek Wagner created type 1 and Opentype versions of this font, as OCR B Outline. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
World Language Resources: "thousands of products supporting literally hundreds of languages. We have herein the most comprehensive collection of products for language learning, translation, dictionary, OCR, fonts and many other uses to be found anywhere." Commercial outfit. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer with Tony Lyons at Letraset of the OCR style face Buzzer Three (1995). FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Free but useless demo versions of OCR-A and OCR-B: PrecisionIDOCRA1DEMO (2005), PrecisionIDOCRB1DEMO (2005). At 79 dollars a shot for the originals, this is highway robbery. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Waxham, NC-based vendor of barcode fonts and software. These cover Code 128, Code 3 of 9 (Code 39), EAN, UPC, Postnet, Interleaved 2 of 5, PDF417, ASP Barcodes, PDF417, OCR-A, OCR-B, MICR, and Data Matrix barcodes, and cost between 75 and 129 dollars per barcode style. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Japanese foundry with these free fonts: GD-TiVangerion-JA, GD-Digit13LED-OTF (pixel font), GD-HighwayGothicJA-OTF (highway lettering, kanji included), GD-AirportRunway-OTF (2008, octagonal lettering), GD-TiVangerionJA (2006, kana). Fonts without downloads: GD-HyperElectricJA, GD-HyperSuperEnergyJA, GD-OCR-K_JA, GD-SunnyEgg320, GD-MorseBarcode-JA, GD-InaniwaUdon, GD-ProjectNotes, GD-Koigokoro-JA, GD-ComicTitle-JA, GD-Digit17LED. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
With the tax software QuickBooks from Intuit Inc comes a free font file with 8 weights of the family Quick Type (truetype), and an OCR-A font. Has a Pi font. All fonts are copoyright by Monotype. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As part of the TurboTax family, free fonts of the QuickType family (including a Mono font and a Pi font), and OCR-A. All these Agfa-Monotype fonts come in truetype format. See also here. The names: OCR-AII, OCRBMT, QuickTypeIICondensed-Bold, QuickTypeIICondensed-Italic, QuickTypeIICondensed, QuickTypeIIMono, QuickTypeIIPi, QuickTypeII-Bold, QuickTypeII-Italic, QuickTypeII. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scannerlicker (was: Loligo Vulgaris)
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Typefaces from 2010: Menta (an organic monoline sans), Gerusa (minimalist sans), SuperBlack (fat, counterless), Tucátulá 2010 (handprinted, with Ricardo Gomes and Carla Estrada). Other faces include Catorze (geometric sans; substyles include Catorze 27 Style 1 (2011)), Horta (slab serif), Illiad, Menta (2010), Ulular, and Pixelmixel. MyFonts link. Dafont link. Loligo Vulgaris at MyFonts. Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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TrueType and PostScript barcode fonts and barcode generators: Code EAN 13, EAN 8, Addon -2 and -5, EAN Velocity, Code UPC A, UPC E, Code 128, EAN128, UPS128, Code 39, -extended, PZN, Code 93, 2/5 Interleaved, 2/5 industry, direction and identcode of the Deutsche Post AG, Codabar, Monarch, plaintext-font OCR-B, 2D-Barcode PDF417 (only Bar Code generator). Commercial product. The demos are crippled. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Subtype (was: Typisc or Suprb)
| Swedish commercial foundry, est. 2006, earlier called Suprb or Typisc. Commercial fonts: NTMY (2009, ultra-black), Alasca (2008), Quick16 (2008: pure geometry), ASCA (2008, "the cousin of OCR"), Myld (2008, avant garde ideas), Wyld (2010, hairline version of Myld), DIRR (2007, an unreadable extra black concoction), ASCA and ASCA-D (2007, rounded octagonal), LIW (techno, in bold and regular versions), Wyld (2007, Avant Garde to the extreme), Quick16 (2008, experimental), Alkasca (2008), Building (2006), Asphalt (2007, avant garde). Free fonts: Quart (2008, kitchen tile style), SWEM (2007, experimental), Cloud (2006, hairline font with connected letters, by Andreas Pihlström). Alternate URL. YWFT link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Test Pilot Collective (est. 1998) is a type foundry located in San Francisco, CA, USA. Typeface designs by Joseph Kral, Matt Desmond, and Michael Cina. The fonts were available via Makambo: 6X7OCT (Michael Cina), AMBER (Matt Desmond), AMERICANGOTHIC (Matt Desmond), AOLSUCKS (Joseph Kral), ATARIBABY (Joseph Kral), Auresh (StarTrek font, Matthew Desmond, 1998), BASIS (Matt Desmond), Bastard (Michael Cina, 1998), BEAT (Matt Desmond), Braille (Joseph Kral, 1999), CALIPER (Michael Cina), CAM (Michael Cina), Cheese (Michael Cina, 1998), CINAHAND (Michael Cina), Civicstylecom (1999, Matt Desmond), COMPOSITE (Michael Cina), CROSSOVER (Michael Cina), CURBDOG (Matt Desmond), DATDATA (Joseph Kral), DESMONDTEXT (Matt Desmond), DOUBLEOSEVEN (Joseph Kral), ER9 (Matt Desmond), Europa (Matthew Desmond, 1998), FIREFLYLOVE (Joseph Kral), FORMATION (Michael Cina), FOURFORTY (Joseph Kral), GOTHICOANTIQUA (Matt Desmond), HALFWIT (Joseph Kral), INVOICE (Matt Desmond), JOESFOOT (Joseph Kral), Kcap6 (dingbats by Michael Cina and Matthew Desmond, 1998), KRALHND (Joseph Kral), Lakestreet (grunge font by Joseph Kral, 1998), LUNARMOD (Matt Desmond), Lutix (StarTrek font, Matthew Desmond, 1998), MAETL (Michael Cina), MECHANICAL (Joseph Kral), NANOCODE (Joseph Kral), NASH (Michael Cina), OCRJ (Joseph Kral), OCRK (Joseph Kral), OCTOBRE (Joseph Kral), OPENLUNCH (Joseph Kral), PLATFORMS (Joseph Kral), PYROTECHNICS (Joseph Kral&Michael Cina, 1998), RAZORSUITE (Joseph Kral), REFLECTOR (Joseph Kral), RETRON (Matt Desmond), SAARIKARI (Joseph Kral), SCREWMOPHEAD (Joseph Kral), SELECTOR (Michael Cina), SHAOLINSTYLE (Joseph Kral), SHIFTY (Matt Desmond, 1998, also [T26]), Stem (Michael Cina, 1998), STICK26 (Joseph Kral), Stomper (Matthew Desmond, 1999), SUBITO (Joseph Kral), Testacon (by Cina, Desmond and Kral, 1999), TRISECT (Michael Cina), TRYPTOMENE (Joseph Kral), TWINSITES (Joseph Kral), ULTRAMAGNETIC2 (Michael Cina), UNISECT (Michael Cina), WOODDALE (Matt Desmond), WRONGWAY (Joseph Kral), Xerian (Matthew Desmond, 1997), XERXES (Joseph Kral, 1998), ZEBRAFLESH (Joseph Kral). They made a custom font for Citibank, a modification of Joe Kral's OCRK (1998). MyFonts site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
The tibetan OCR Project seeks to develop a Tibetan Optical Character Recognition System. It was started in 1998 by the Tibetan language scholars Don Stilwell (who created the Gaka Tibetan font in truetype format), Leonardo Gribaudo, Lee H. MacDonald, Marvin Moser, Chris J. Fynn, Pierre Robillard, Xavier Franc, Robert Taylor and Robert Chilton. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer with Paul Crome at Letraset of the OCR style face Buzzer Three (1995). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial barcode fonts from A-BIT_Z: Code EAN 13, EAN 8, Addon -2 und -5, EAN Velocity, Code UPC A, UPC E, Code 128, EAN128, UPS128, Code 39, -extended, PZN, Code 93, 2/5 Interleaved, 2/5 Industrie, Leit- und Identcode der Post, Codabar, Monarch, OCR-B. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typeco.com
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TypOasis, 2002
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Typonauten
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Unifon (or: Unifon Press)
| Unifon is a free font that serves as a proposal for a phonetic alphabet to help people read better and faster. It was proposed by Margaret S. Ratz in 1966. Unifon D 2005 (2005) is OCR-like and Uniforn Ra (2005) is roman. T [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Videogame Text
| This site is a blog about a book proposal by Zach Whalen on the typography and types used in videogame text. It is immensely useful for type historians, and highly recommended. It is based on Zach's 2008 dissertation at the University of Washington entitled The Videogame Text: Typography and Textuality. Interesting subpages: [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Commercial barcoding software: Wasp Fontware is a powerful bar code utility that seamlessly integrates TrueType fonts with your favorite business software and database applications. The fonts are compatible with all windows applications including the most common word processors and spreadsheets. Easliy (sic) create bar codes simply by changing the font. 100 USD for one user, 10,000USD for a site license. Supports Code 39, Code 128, UCC 128, Code 93, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN/JAN-8, EAN/JAN-13, Codabar, MSI Plessy and Postnet bar codes. The package includes 6 TrueType fonts, OCR-A and OCR-B fonts, and barcoding software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
words+pictures
| Foundry that does custom work and sells some fonts, mostly grungy modifications of well-known styles. Font names: Leubner (2002), Topogigio (2002), Babushka (2001), Minsk (2001, like Babushka, a gorgeous Cyrillic imitation font), bank, bastante, basterg, blanco, blip, bodega, boot, cabra, caslost, chefic, chiva, classico, coalities, cobrag, conduct, constitution, crate, curse, deconstruct, dente, dupe, flash, gross, gus, highway, hippie, houdini, jose, lagrima, life, liquor, liturgy, marta, mencilbold, moda, muchobas, mypure, obelika, preacher, prodigy, qwerty, random, recog, rescue, seviche, sign, stenciloni, tainted, verve, zocrab, spam, spike, kutztown, student (free), kunkeltown (free stencil font). The fonts are made by Gerry Chapleski (b. Bahamas, 1967), who used to run the outfit under the names Gerry Chapleski Design and EditableGraphics. Freeware fonts Crate (a stencil font, 2001), Circuit (2001), Alien (2002), Onesystem (2002), Vindex (2002), Shrek (2002) and Seviche (2001). Flute is a freebie stencil-look font (2001) and Supa (2002) is a freebie OCR font. MyFonts sells these fonts: Alien, Andalusia, Ave Maria, Babino, Babushka, Bastante, Basterg, Blogger, Bodacious, Cabra, Chefic, Chiva, Circuit, Classico, Coalities, Cobrag, Conduct, Constitution, Cordoba, Crate, Curse, Decon, Domo, Dupe, Flash, Flute, Function (1995, typewriter), Geek, Geo, Geomed, Gross, Grotto, Gus, Highway, Hippie, Houdini (a tweaked didone), Ingots, Jose, Kinko, Kunkeltown (stencil), Kutztown, Leubner, Lifer, Limbo, Liturgy, Marta, Mencilbold, Minsk, Moda, Muchobastante, Mypure, Obelika, Onesystem, Preacher, Prodigy, Qwerty, Random, Readme, Rescue, Seviche, Shrek, Sign, Spam, Spike, Student, Sweat, Topogigio, Totti, Version2, Vindex, Vivacious, Zocrab. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Yagpo! Wylie is an extensive free Tibetan Unicode-compliant face. Names related to this font and to the open source Tibetan OCR project are Alexander Stroganov, Namhay Norby Rinpoche, Palden Sherab, Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, Gualwa Karmapa Orgen tinley Dordje, Ayang Rinpoche, Rangrig Dorje Rinpoche, Geshe Tsering Dondrup and Kristoffer Lindqvist. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zal Moxe | Design student in Toronto, who is working on this unicase font (2005) which combines OCR with Startrek. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Czech TeX and font software expert, whose place on the web is called IceBear Soft. He created makebarcode, a free package done in 2008 for the TeX community. It contains TeX macros for printing various 2/5 bar codes and Code 39 bar codes. The macros do not use fonts but create the bar codes directly by vrules. It is therefore possible to vary width to height ratio, ratio of thin and thick bars. The package is convenient for printing ITF bar codes as well as bar codes for identification labels for HP storage media. In 2010, he published OCR-B Outline. These are type1 and OpenType versions of an earlier Metafont by Norbert Schwarz (Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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German type foundry in Hamburg established in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake. They offer original fonts as well as improved versions of classical fonts. There are many non-Latin fonts as well. In-house designers include Jessica Hoppe (Carpediem), Verana Gerlach (Aranea), Petra Beisse (PetrasScript), Uwe Melichar, Manuela Frahm (Fritz Dittert), Ralf Borowiak, Lisa von Paczkowski, and Achaz Reuss. 
Creator at FontStruct in 2009 of mostly pixel font families such as IMSureItSBeenDoneBefore (in many styles). He also made Material Electrons, as well as The Video Game Arcade Font, CASIOpeia ((+Menus), based on the CASIO fx-7700G Power Graphic Scientific Calculator) and Data Entry (inspired by TechnoDisplayCapsSSK, (C) 1992 Southern Software, Inc. [and 4 glyphs from the MICR font E-13B]). Other fonts: Futuristic Terminal Display (2009, great!), Mag Not Mad Solid (2009, pixel face), Mag Not Max (2009, horizontally striped pixel face), Son of Zaxxon (2009, horizontally striped, +Solid; both based on the 1984 Sega game Future Spy), Goin'Commando (2009, based on a 1985 Capcom game called Commando), Zenny Coins (2009, based on a 1987 Capcom game called Black Tiger), Smoking Gun (2009, based on the game Gun.Smoke (1985, Capcom; used again for 1943: Battle Of Midway, 1987, Capcom)), Bentley Bear (2009, based on 1983 Atari game called Crystal Castles), Temporal Aviator 84 (based on the 1984 Konami game Time Pilot 84), Reindeer Flotilla, Jet Bradley (inspired by the video game logo for "TRON 2.0", 2003 Buena Vista Interactive / Monolith Productions), Alan One (Font from TRON, 1982 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Buzzard Bait (font from Joust, 1982 Williams Electronics Inc., and its sequel, Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest, 1986 Williams Electronics Games, Inc), Genetic Engineering Error (from Robotron: 2084, (C) 1982 Williams Electronics Inc., and its sequel, Blaster, (C) 1983 Williams Electronics Inc), Mutant Bender (from Defender, (C) 1980 Williams Electronics Inc), Stargate Immortals (from Stargate, (C) 1981 Williams Electronics Inc), Separate Ways (from Journey, (C) 1983 Bally Midway Mfg), Deadly Disks (from Discs Of TRON, (C) 1983 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Jerry Belvedere (from Satan's Hollow, (C) 1981 Bally Midway Mfg Co, and from Satan's Hollow, (C) 1981 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Tortuga (from 600, (C) Konami 1981; Turtles, (C) 1981 Stern Electroncs/Konami; and Turpin, (C) 1981 Sega/Konami), OCRA Pixel 15x10, Intelligent Television Dings (Right, Left), Hand Aviator (Palm pilot font family), Intelligent Television (based on typeface used in Intellivision games by Mattel Electronics, and the True Type Font "Intellect"), DMP-200RS (based on the output of the Radio Shack DMP-200 printer), Bubbles (based on Bubbles, (C) 1982 Williams Electronics Inc), Mukor Rules All Galaxies (from Blasteroids, (C) 1987 Atari Games), Futuristic Terminal Display, Winky and the Hallmonsters (from Venture, (C) 1981 Exidy), Bubble City (from Road Blasters, (C) 1987 Atari Games), Mag Not Mad (from Mag Max, (C) 1985 Nichibutsu / Nihonbussan Co., Ltd), The Bacterian Empire (from Thunder Cross, (C) 1988 Konami, and its sequel, Thunder Cross II, (C) 1991 Konami), Solvalou Combat Aircraft (from Xevious, (C) 1982 Namco Ltd / Atari, and its sequel, Super Xevious, (C) 1984 Namco), Red Falcon Organization (from Super Contra, (C) 1988 Konami), Lucas Readies The Lawyers (from Star Fire, (C) 1979 Exidy), Cheese Was The Bait (from Mousetrap, (C) 1981 Exidy), Thunder and Lightning (from Raiden, (C) 1990 Seibu Kaihatsu Inc), Pepper The Zippering Angel (from Pepper II, (C) 1982 Exidy Incorporated), Beware I Live (from Sinistar, (C) 1982 Williams Electronics Inc), Goin Commando (from Commando, (C) 1985 Capcom), The Monkey Biz Gang (from Kangaroo, (C) 1982 Sun Electronics Corp. / Atari), Vic Viper (from Gradius / Nemesis, (C) 1985 Konami), Diskarmor Attack (from Rygar, (C) 1986 Tecmo), Benkin The Jogging Elf (from Mystic Marathon, (C) 1984 Williams Electronics Inc), Qix Are For Kids (from Qix, (C) 1981 Taito America Corporation), Omni Consumer Products (from ROBOCOP, (C) 1987 Data East Corporation), Mister Not Undo (from the Mr. Do series, Lady Bug and Jumping Jack: Lady Bug, (C) 1981 Universal; Mr. Do, (C) 1982 Universal; Mr. Do's Castle, (C) 1983 Universal; Mr. Do's Wild Ride, (C) 1984 Universal; and Jumping Jack, (C) 1984 Universal), Micro Police Pgo Stick Division (from Hopping Mappy, (C) 1983, 1986 Namco), Great Demon World Village (from Ghouls 'N Ghosts, (C) 1988 Capcom), Demon World Village (from Ghosts 'N Goblins, (C) 1985 Capcom), Secret Agent Dabney Coleman (from Cloak&Dagger, (C) 1983 Atari), Getting Away With It (from Electronic's 1991 self-titled album; a variation of Wim Crouwel's "Stedelijk" alphabet, used on his 1966 Vomgevers poster for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam), Galden Tribe Attacks Mu (from Last Duel, (C) 1988 Capcom), Superior Scientists (from Vastar, (C) 1983 Sesame Japan Corp), Keeper of the Zoo (from Zookeeper, (C) 1982 Taito America Corp), Taito 1982 (Font used in the following Taito games: Elevator Action, (C) 1982 Taito Corp; Front Line, (C) 1982 Taito Corp; Jungle Hunt, (C) Taito America Corp / Jungle King, (C)1982 Taito Corp; and Wild Western, (C) 1982 Taito Corporation), Howard Fine&Howard (from The Three Stooges, (C) 1984 Mylstar Electronics), TwinBee And WinBee (from TwinBee, (C) 1985 Konami), Quest For Honor (from Last Mission, (C) 1986 Data East USA, Inc), Street Justice (from Vigilante, (C) 1988 Irem Corp), Colwyn's Glaive (from Krull, (C) 1983 D. Gottlieb And Co.), Command Prompt (a family based on Microsoft system fonts), Temporal Aviator 84 (from Time Pilot '84, (C) 1984 Konami; used again for Contra, (C) 1987 Konami), Helicopter and Jeep (from Silkworm, (C) 1988 Tecmo Ltd), A Different Space Odyssey (from Space Odyssey, (C) 1981 Sega Enterprises Ltd), Cosmic Cruiser (from Kozmik Krooz'r, (C) 1982 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Kaptn Kroozr Goes Wacko (from Wacko, (C) 1982/1983 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Rescuing Astronauts (from S.R.D. Mission, (C) 1986 Taito Corp), Super Joe (from The Speed Rumbler, (C) 1986 Capcom), Alex Murphy (inspired by the RoboCop movie logos), Blazer of Trails (Chevy logo font), 
German [T-26] designer of Cologne (a 7-weight techno font family), 
The idea of Katatrad originally comes from the vision and support of Cadson Demak design team. Started out by a type design exhibition project and transformed itself to a boutique font collection. Katatrad, which is located in Bangkok, offers fonts from new and up coming designers from Thailand. The collection is also available in standard Latin set and Latin&Thai version of the same font. Stawix Ruecho (Katatrad) designed the super-contrasted didone family 
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Fundicion Tipografica Neufville SA is a foundry based in Barcelona, headed by Wolfgang Hartmann, which writes about itself: "Neufville Digital produces and markets the fonts from Fundicion Tipografica Neufville, Bauersche Giesserei, Ludwig&Mayer, Fonderie Typographique Française and Fundicion Tipografica Nacional." 
In 1968, American Type Founders produced OCR-A, one of the first optical character recognition typefaces to meet the criteria set by the U.S. Bureau of Standards. The design is simple so that it can be read by a machine, but it is slightly more difficult for the human eye to read. OCR-A follows the 1981 standard set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), X-3.17-1981 (size I). The same design is also specified for the German DIN 66008 standard. The letters are rounded and octagonal, a true monstrosity in vogue ca. 2001 in Swiss and German graphic design circles. [
Graphic and media designer and art director in Espinho, Portugal, b. 1984. He is the son of an Arts and Crafts teacher and grandson of a typographer. He has designed some typefaces, such as Illiad Sans (2008, a 4-style family), 
Born in Duesseldorf in 1951. She co-designed at Apply Design (now Apply Interactive) in 1999 a nice series of stencil fonts with Guenther Flake: WaltonStencil-BlackRough, WaltonStencil-WhiteRough, LaPinaStencil, LasertacStencil, ReedonStencil, RoundedStencil, SerpentineStencil, StencilAntiqua, TeaChestStencil, WesternStencil, AdveraStencil, ArstonStencil, BankStencil-Medium, BankStencil-MediumRough, CaslonFinaStencil-Black, CaslonFinaStencil-BlackRough, ChicoStencil-Rough, ChicoStencil, FerroStencil, GeometricStencil, GlaserStencil. Some of these can be bought at 
The fonts produced in 2002: Bauhouse, ClassiCaps Xmas 2002, GGothique MK, Lombardic, Mouse Traces, Music Elements, DreiDreiDreiBlack, Griffo's Font, Noisy Buttons, 
Ingo Krepinsky (b. 1976, Eschwege) graduated in 2000 from Fachhochschule Hannover, and in 20903 from Hochschule für Künste Bremen, where he specialized in typography. He is a cofounder and type designer at Typonauten, a Bremen-based commercial font foundry started in 1998. 
Foundry established in Prague in 2006 by 
This is one of the most talented FontStructors. He/she made 
