Morovia OCR-A & OCR-B Fonts
OCR-A and OCR-B are widely used in passport, bank checks, serial tracking labels, credit card imprints, cash registers, license plates and US postal mail. Morovia OCR-A & OCR-B Fontware contains all different sizes of OCR-A and OCR-B fonts (6 sizes in total). These fonts comply to the most recent ANSI standards X3.17-2000 and X3.49-1982. Special symbols for euro-banking are also included with each font.
Package Contents
Morovia OCR-A & OCR-B Font package contains a total of 8 OCR-A and OCR-B fonts. To meet the ANSI measurement requirements, these fonts should be printed at point size 12.
For application compatibility, two fonts (OCR A
and OCR B
)
are added. They
are identical to MRV OCRA I
and MRV OCRB I
fonts
respectively except the
typeface names.
Font Name | ANSI Size | Character Spacing (inch) | CPI |
---|---|---|---|
MRV OCRA I | OCR-A Size I | 0.010 | 10 |
MRV OCRA IV | OCR-A Size IV | 0.0143 | 7 |
MRV OCRB I | OCR-B Size I | 0.010 | 10 |
MRV OCRB III | OCR-B Size III | 0.010 | 10 |
MRV OCRB IV | OCR-B Size IV | 0.0143 | 7 |
OCR A | same as MRV OCRA I | ||
OCR B | same as MRV OCRB I |
Euro-Banking and National Symbols
Morovia OCR-A fonts implement all symbols required by the ISO standard, which contains several euro-banking symbols and National symbols.
Symbol | Character Code | Corresponding Latin Character |
---|---|---|
Chair | oxf0 | eth |
Fork | 0x5F | _ (underscore) |
Hook | 0x7E | ~ (asciitilde) |
Vertical Mark | 0x7C | | (pipe) |
To input the Chair
symbol, you can use extended character input method. On
Windows platform, this can be achieved by holding ALT key and pressing 0240 at
the numeric keypad (located at the right of the normal keyboard).
Character Drawings
- OCR-A Size I (corresponding font MRV OCRA I)
- OCR-A Size III (corresponding font MRV OCRA III)
- OCR-A Size IV (Corresponding font MRV OCRA IV)
- OCR-B Size I (corresponding font MRV OCRB I)
- OCR-B Size III (corresponding font MRV OCRB III)
- OCR-B Size IV (corresponding font MRV OCRB IV)