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As it turns out, this font (or its imitations) were based on the Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) numerals developed by bankers in the 1950s to make cheques readable by machines, but still also recognizable to humans... (2/5)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_ink_character_recognition

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