STF_WESTMOBSTER NRC

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Westmobster NRC — Magnetic Ink Character Recognition style

A typeface design inspired by the MICR aesthetics style.

I haven't checked and compared this against any of the others already in existence, but due to this it's obvious that this is going to share several resemblances with other similar fonts that are out there.

But I'm pretty confident that this isn't just your next Westminster or Data70.

Just to point out one of the unmistakable difference here for example, is the more distinct Sci-Fi characteristic, which is especially strong within it's uppercase set.

This sort of fonts have been strongly associated with computers technology, especially in the late 1960s and early-to-mid 1970s. Nowdays these lettering concepts are frequently used to indicate computer involvement in television series, films, books, music fashion and several other media.

In the 1960s, the MICR fonts became a symbol of modernity or futurism, leading to the creation of look-a-like "computer" typefaces that imitated the appearance of the MICR fonts.

It still requires some minor adjustment and tweaks, but the global concept is finished.

Let me know what you think,

Cheers

16 Comments

Comment by Sed4tives 26th july 2023

It might look simplistic at first, but its certainly not the case, just zoom in and take a closed look at the glyphs and for example all the softened round features.

Now imagine all that custom smoothing without 2x2 filter settings.

Yup... no filters used.

Comment by Sed4tives 26th july 2023

I wonder how you managed to pull off the curves from horizontal/vertical to a 45 degree angle at 1x1 filters?

Could also add the OCR and MICR characters from the Optical Character Recognition block as many OCR systems—including MICR systems—make use of said characters…

Comment by Bryndan W. Meyerholt (BWM) 26th july 2023

@Sed4tives - Wonderful version you have created here.  Westminster & Data 70 are two of my favorites.  :^)

@Bryndan W. Meyerholt (BWM) - If you zoom in on the outer left shoulder of the A at the midpoint, you can see a little of what tricks @Sed4tives may have employed.  ;^)

Comment by Goatmeal 26th july 2023

Not for long now ^^

Thanks guys for the appreciation =)

Comment by Sed4tives 26th july 2023

@Goatmeal: Gone!

Comment by Sed4tives 26th july 2023
Comment by Sed4tives 26th july 2023

@Sed4tives - ;^D

Comment by Goatmeal 26th july 2023

Nice work, very impressive curves!

Comment by V. Sarela (Yautja) 28th july 2023

@Yautja: Thank you! 😇

Comment by Sed4tives 30th july 2023

Its official, FS is broken with idiots

Comment by Sed4tives 4th august 2023

@BWM: Optical Character Recognition block included!

Comment by Sed4tives 5th august 2023

cool, it looks like westminster.

Comment by Commenter/Cloner 6th august 2023

@Commenter/Cloner: Seriously? And all this time I had been aiming for Comic Sans #dayumfailz..

Comment by Sed4tives 6th august 2023
Comment by Sed4tives 9th august 2023

It also contains an additional set of numeral figures that more closely mimic the original MICR numerals.

Comment by Sed4tives 9th august 2023

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