Talk:OCR-B

Meaningless sentence
The current version of the article says the font "has been created to get financial features, bank-oriented specifically." I'm hesitant to just delete it, but I can't work out what it means. If somebody can figure it out, please edit to make it clear! Cheers, Dricherby (talk) 21:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC)


 * The font was originally used on machine readable bank documents, such as bills payable by bank/postal transfer. For example, it is used for the machine readable line on "giro" payment forms in some countries.  I have cleaned up the summary to make this a bit clearer without adding original research about the specific document types. Jbohmdk (talk) 05:26, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Glyph shapes: Location of original drawings
The various OCR-B specification documents do not include the prescribed shapes of all glyphs; instead, the documents only give a small number of example shapes and instruct readers to order authoritative copies by writing to the ECMA secretariat in Geneva. Therefore, it is very hard to find authoritative sources for the actual glyph designs. In 1998, the original drawings for the OCR-B glyphs were located at the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (N470 p.20). As of July 2019, they seem to be stored in climate controlled archives in the historic documents division of Stonybrook University Library in New York (personal e-mail communication from ECMA, July 25, 2019). It would be nice to somehow work this into the article because it would be very valuable information for type designers, and anyone interested in the history of the glyph shapes. However, I am not sure how to find an authoritative reference for the current location. Maybe there’s a record about this archive in the catalog of the Stonybrook library. — Sascha (talk) 10:10, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * If you have sources for its prior locations, even that would be an improvement to the article. There is always, not that it's ideal… &mdash;ajf (talk) 21:38, 25 July 2019 (UTC)