As the 1999 document Optical Character Recognition: An illustrated guide to the frontier explains: (We’ll overlook the fact that the foundry is responsible for Hobo.)īut just one of its fonts has a spot in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection, and that font is OCR-A, a typeface created in 1966 to be read for a very specific audience: machines.Īnd the machines of the time did not have the ability to differentiate between fonts, making such a font necessary. Franklin Gothic, Century Schoolbook? Both of them credited to ATF typographers. for decades, has a lot of fonts to its name, many of them incredibly well known and of high-quality. ( Eric Fischer/Flickr) How the challenges of making fonts readable by machines influenced typographyĪmerican Type Founders, trust of 23 different type foundries that defined typography in the U.S. The OCR-A typeface, shown at the Museum of Modern Art.
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