Blippo
Another variant of Bayer’s Universal Alphabet, resembling ITC Bauhaus in design, ITC Ronda in proportion and fit, prepared by FotoStar in the mid 1970s.
Cavalero BT
A handsome, square sanserif, the ultra extended Cavalero is strictly a display design. The typeface was inspired by the Chevy Cavalier logotype.
Courier 10 Pitch
Another in the series of competent IBM serifed typewriter faces, this one from Howard Kettler in Lexington in 1956.
Letter Gothic 12 Pitch
Roger Roberson skillfully adapted the sanserif to the monospace IBM typewriter at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1956.
Mesotone BT
Matt Desmond (MADType, Pufficlaude BT) would like you to meet Mesotone BT. This computer typeface design is monoweight and somewhat monowidth. The squarish unicase glyph forms feature eased corners and…
MICR
MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. This set of numeric characters, when printed with special magnetic inks, can be read by special scanners. MICR characters are found in a…
OCR-A
A set of capitals adequate for machine reading only; this barely legible pioneer sees declining use.
OCR-B BT
Adrian Frutiger’s distinguished and successful 1966 design for the European Computer Manufacturers’ Association improving readability of letters for both machines and humans. OCR-B is replacing OCR-A.
Orbit-B
A second VGC face, this one by S. Biggenden, borrowing from the structure of MICR figures to lend computer associations to the page.
Automatic AOE
A retro seventies idea of the Futuristic typeface, Automatic is a reflection on the simple and innocent ideas of the future from our past. To reach to moon, to colonize…