About MICR Cheque Font
A personal cheque is a document with two readers. The engraved bank name, the ruled payee line and the handwritten courtesy amount are for a person; the bottom five-eighths of an inch belongs to a machine. That clear band carries the MICR line set in E-13B — ten digits and four symbols, printed in iron-oxide ink.
The glyphs are lumpy on purpose. Their thick and thin strokes exist to generate a magnetic waveform a sorter can distinguish at speed, not to satisfy a type designer. Everything above the band — the pale blue safety tint, the tone-on-tone pantograph, the microprint rules — is quiet so the band stays legible.
- Origin
- United States and Canada
- Era
- 1950s onward; E-13B adopted by the American Bankers Association in 1958
- Key figures
- American Bankers Association · Stanford Research Institute · General Electric · ANSI X9 committee
- Movements
- Bank automation · Magnetic ink character recognition · Security printing
MICR Cheque Font design spec
Colors
Typography
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