OCR-A
TYPEFACE
ISO 1073-1; OCR A Extended; OCR fork; OCR-A font; OCR-A Extended; OCR-A extended; ECMA-8
OCR-A is a font created in 1968, in the early days of computer optical character recognition, when there was a need for a font that could be recognized not only by the computers of that day, but also by humans.Motivation for OCR-A from Microscan OCR-A uses simple, thick strokes to form recognizable characters.