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OCR-A font

Summary

OCR-A font is an open-source typeface[1]. It draws 365 Wikipedia views per month (open_source_typeface category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • OCR-A font is the creator of American Type Founders[3].
  • OCR-A font's image is recorded as Matt-OCR-A-B.png[4].
  • OCR-A font's image is recorded as OCR-A SP.svg[5].
  • OCR-A font's instance of is recorded as open-source typeface[6].
  • optical character recognition is named after OCR-A font[7].
  • OCR-A font's collection is recorded as Museum of Modern Art[8].
  • OCR-A font's inventory number is recorded as 1062.2010[9].
  • OCR-A font's designed by is recorded as American Type Founders[10].
  • OCR-A font's has use is recorded as optical character recognition[11].
  • OCR-A font's Commons category is recorded as OCR-A[12].
  • +1968-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of OCR-A font[13].
  • OCR-A font's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03h5j1s[14].
  • OCR-A font's Museum of Modern Art work ID is recorded as 139567[15].
  • OCR-A font's SourceForge project is recorded as ocr-a-font[16].
  • OCR-A font's Debian stable package is recorded as fonts-ocr-a[17].
  • OCR-A font's Ubuntu package is recorded as fonts-ocr-a[18].
  • OCR-A font's copyright holder is recorded as Monotype[19].
  • OCR-A font's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[20].
  • OCR-A font's Repology project name is recorded as fonts:ocr-a[21].

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Designation and Status

OCR-A font's instance of is recorded as open-source typeface[6].

History and Context

+1968-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of OCR-A font[13]. optical character recognition is named after it[7].

Why It Matters

OCR-A font draws 365 Wikipedia views per month (open_source_typeface category, ranking #1 of 9).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Museum of Modern Art optical character recognition

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . moma.org. moma.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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