Moore Computer was designed by James H. Moore of
Typographic House, Boston [Cristen Moore-Abdow] and released by VGC
in 1968 [Splorp]. Jaspert
describes it as an alphabetic extension to E 13 B
(also E-13B, see MICR), a set
of numerals and control characters “designed to meet the needs of
magnetic character recognition in automatic cheque and document
reading equipment.”
Appears as Moore Computer in Photoscript’s 1968
catalog, in VGC’s 1972 catalog, and in Phil’s Photo’s 1980 catalog;
and as Data Process in Lettergraphics’ 1976 catalog.
Headliners’ (neo-)Computer (before 1978) is different
only in a few glyphs incl. ‘KW5?’. Photo-Lettering’s Magnetic
Ink series (various weights, with lowercase) comes close
except for a few glyphs (‘O’ is unmodulated, ‘I’ has thick top and
bottom etc.) Mecanorma had the similar More…
Moore Computer was designed by James H. Moore of Typographic House, Boston [Cristen Moore-Abdow] and released by VGC in 1968 [Splorp]. Jaspert describes it as an alphabetic extension to E 13 B (also E-13B, see MICR), a set of numerals and control characters “designed to meet the needs of magnetic character recognition in automatic cheque and document reading equipment.”
Appears as Moore Computer in Photoscript’s 1968 catalog, in VGC’s 1972 catalog, and in Phil’s Photo’s 1980 catalog; and as Data Process in Lettergraphics’ 1976 catalog. Headliners’ (neo-)Computer (before 1978) is different only in a few glyphs incl. ‘KW5?’. Photo-Lettering’s Magnetic Ink series (various weights, with lowercase) comes close except for a few glyphs (‘O’ is unmodulated, ‘I’ has thick top and bottom etc.) Mecanorma had the similar Magnetic (c.1971); Berthold Fototypes and Zipatone had G.K.W. Computer (1974).
Monotype’s digital version is simply named Computer and doesn’t credit the designer.
