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OCR-A

monospaced typeface designed for optical character recognition, used for the secure printing of checks and forms of for the trustable identification of devices with small sizes
Place open_source_typeface Q682579

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
open-source typeface
Inception
1968[8]
Has use
optical character recognition[7]
Collection
Museum of Modern Art[4]
Copyright holder
Monotype[9]
Copyright status
copyrighted[10]
Creator
American Type Founders[2]
Designed by
American Type Founders[6]
Inventory number
1062.2010[5]
Named after
optical character recognition[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en OCR-A en OCR-A font fr police de caractères OCR-A it OCR A it USASI-A ja OCR-A フォント ja OCR-Aフォント
🔖 Identifiers · 8
GND ID
7647531-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
OCR-A SP.svg ↗
Debian stable package
fonts-ocr-a
Freebase ID
/m/03h5j1s
Museum of Modern Art work ID
139567
Repology project name
fonts:ocr-a
SourceForge project
ocr-a-font
Ubuntu package
fonts-ocr-a

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🔗 Connections
Collection 1
Museum of Modern Art
Copyright holder 1
Monotype
Creator 1
American Type Founders
Designed by 1
American Type Founders
Has use 1
optical character recognition
Named after 1
optical character recognition
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Summary

OCR-An is an open-source typeface[1].

Related Entities

Museum of Modern Art optical character recognition

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . moma.org. moma.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · Verdy p · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Creator → —
    Collection → Museum of Modern Art
    Has use → optical character recognition
    Named after → —
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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