Designed to be read by the first optical character recognition machines, not by people. That is exactly why it looks like the future as imagined in 1968.
Download IBM Plex Mono, free ↗Google FontsOCR-A itself is licensed. IBM Plex Mono is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in IBM Plex Mono in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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Tip. Headline in IBM Plex Mono, standing in for OCR-A, body copy in Inter. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · IBM Plex Mono 400
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20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: IBM Plex Mono
Why IBM Plex Mono. Machine-readable character; Plex Mono keeps the technical register without the novelty. OCR-A itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in IBM Plex Mono, which is free to use on the web and in print.
IBM Plex Mono, on its own. Typewriter monospace with a corporate edge. Technical register without the novelty.
If OCR-A is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.