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OCR-B Machine Readable

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OCR-B is the monospaced face Adrian Frutiger drew in 1968 for ECMA and the world ratified in 1973 — the digits under every barcode, the two lines at the foot of a passport, a shape engineered for optical scanners yet still legible to the eye.

This system reads that machine-vision heritage as a scanner console: cyan phosphor characters glowing on a deep, dark teal field. Everything is fixed-pitch, tabular, and lit from within — a single luminous hue over an unlit ground, never neon clutter.

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  • OriginSwitzerland
  • Period1968 (design); ISO/ECMA standard 1973
  • DesignerAdrian Frutiger
  • MovementsOptical character recognition · Mid-century standards-body type design

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