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OCR-A

One of the first optical character recognition typefaces, produced by ATF to meet the criteria set by the U.S. Bureau of Standards. ISO 1073/1 from 1976 includes capitals, figures, and control characters. [SIS]

Photo-Lettering had a phototype adaptation named Cathode Ray. [PLINC One Liner 1971]. A lowercase was added before 1980. [U&lc Vol. 2 No. 7 p55] Added to the Letraset library in 1986. [U&lc Vol. 13 No. 1 p67]

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