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1. lostlo+Fkk[view] [source] 2024-12-10 07:28:18
>>mamoul+(OP)
Any ideas on what the font is in the 3rd image? I like it.

‘MENU SELECTION BY HONEYWELL KITCHEN COMPUTER’

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2. Cumpil+zmk[view] [source] 2024-12-10 07:49:13
>>lostlo+Fkk
If you Google "classic computer font that's on cheques", you'll find it as the first result.
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3. Animat+Sqk[view] [source] 2024-12-10 08:44:31
>>Cumpil+zmk
The amusing thing is that there never was such a computer-readable text font.

The original Magnetic Ink Character Recognition digits still seen on paper checks are from a set that only has numbers and some delimiters. There are no letters in MICR. Anything that looks like that font with letters is a dated attempt to look futuristic.

MICR digits are really a kind of bar code. They were originally read by a one-track magnetic head.[1] The waveform out represents only how much ink is present. But it doesn't matter to the magnetic reader where the ink is placed vertically within the read track. That's why the digit forms are so weird, with those varying-width lines.

Bank of America had the first MICR readers and check sorters custom built. This was so successful that it powered BofA to become the biggest bank in the world at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Recording_Machine,_...

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