Font identification

Ant555
Ant555 Posts: 1,569 Forumite
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Does anyone know what the name is of the font that is used for the numbers on the right hand side of this image.

<the link is to an item on a site that sells party goods but its the font that I would like to identify and use for something else>
https://www.zazzle.co.uk/pink_concert_ticket_party_invitation-256607015548388947



Many Thanks

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  • wongataa
    wongataa Posts: 2,620 Forumite
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    Try one of the many font identification websites that are found with a quick Google search. SOme of them allow you to upload images of the font you want identifying.
  • Ant555
    Ant555 Posts: 1,569 Forumite
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    Thanks - for future reference on this thread if someone else searches for something similar - I used this site
    https://www.fontsquirrel.com/matcherator

    It matched to several fonts even though the characters were sideways to start with but all of the matches were paid for versions. However I searched for a generic version of the font names and found similar that were free.

    Thanks
  • eddddy
    eddddy Posts: 16,405 Forumite
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    You mean the font on the ticket itself? It looks like OCR-A. See: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/ocr-a/


    It's designed for reading by machine (i.e. OCR or Optical Character Recognition).

    I'm guessing you want it because of the way it looks, rather than for OCR. But for OCR, there's also OCR-B. See: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/ocr-b/
  • Ant555
    Ant555 Posts: 1,569 Forumite
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    Yes, font identified as ocr on that web site - links were to paid-for fonts.

    I found a similar font that suits my needs for free once I knew what to look for so all good now.

    Cheers
  • Robisere
    Robisere Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    Courier New: it's in all Microsoft font collections.
    I think this job really needs
    a much bigger hammer.
  • cookie365
    cookie365 Posts: 1,809 Forumite
    It's nothing like Courier New.

    It's FF-OCR-F

    https://www.linotype.com/822216/ff-ocr-f-regular-product.html?SiteId=574

    Actually, it's not but it's close ;)
  • Robisere
    Robisere Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    cookie365 wrote: »
    It's nothing like Courier New.

    It's FF-OCR-F

    https://www.linotype.com/822216/ff-ocr-f-regular-product.html?SiteId=574

    Actually, it's not but it's close ;)

    Take another look: type the sentence "Pink Ticket Concert Party Invitation" in Courier New, then compare with original.

    The only difference is that the original is a little bolder, which can be sorted by using the whole font family or stack.
    http://www.cssfontstack.com/Courier-New

    I love it when someone just jumps in without actually checking facts.
    I think this job really needs
    a much bigger hammer.
  • Mr_Toad
    Mr_Toad Posts: 2,462 Forumite
    edited 10 October 2016 at 8:35AM
    Robisere wrote: »
    Take another look: type the sentence "Pink Ticket Concert Party Invitation" in Courier New, then compare with original.

    The only difference is that the original is a little bolder, which can be sorted by using the whole font family or stack.
    http://www.cssfontstack.com/Courier-New

    I love it when someone just jumps in without actually checking facts.

    If you'd actually read the original post properly and checked the facts yourself before you jumped in you would have known the OP was asking about the image, not the web page and the numbers, not the characters, and those are nothing like Courier New.
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  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    Let's all breathe! HTML/web pages were never designed to be universally rendered. There are a lot of layers of bodges including font substitution, CSS font families, webfonts any or all of which may or may not be interpreted in the same manner by different browsers. HTML is a markup language, not an image, we can both look at a page and see it differently, neither being right or wrong, and fonts in particular.

    If you want to guarantee we see the same thing, you make an image, a photo, a screenshot.
  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    edited 10 October 2016 at 11:02AM
    Robisere wrote: »
    Take another look: type the sentence "Pink Ticket Concert Party Invitation" in Courier New, then compare with original.

    The only difference is that the original is a little bolder, which can be sorted by using the whole font family or stack.
    http://www.cssfontstack.com/Courier-New

    I love it when someone just jumps in without actually checking facts.

    Facts checked, OCR STD A can be downloaded for free here:

    http://fontsgeek.com/fonts/OCR-A-Std-Regular/download

    Would you like a towel to wipe that egg off ?

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