@riley I can still write in Graffitti , but yes, it was a compromise.

I guess the reverse trend were fonts like Data70 and Westminster that mimicked the look of MICR, but weren't.

In other bizarre standards of typography, it seems that the original Adrian Frutiger tracings of OCR-B were accidentally thrown out at the standards agency that held them. OCR-B is required for use on passports, so it's kinda important