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Westminster (typeface)

Index Westminster (typeface)

Westminster is a printing and display typeface inspired by the machine-readable numbers printed on cheques and designed by Leo Maggs. [1]

16 relations: Cheque, Display typeface, Gill Sans, Highway Gothic, Letraset, List of typefaces, London, Magnetic ink character recognition, NatWest, OCR-A, Rachel, Nevada, Robert Norton (typographer), Royal Opera House, Typeface, United Kingdom, Westminster Bank.

Cheque

A cheque, or check (American English; see spelling differences), is a document that orders a bank to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued.

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Display typeface

A display typeface is a typeface that is intended for use at large sizes for headings, rather than for extended passages of body text.

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Gill Sans

Gill Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.

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Highway Gothic

Highway Gothic (formally known as the FHWA Series fonts or the Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs) is a set of sans-serif typefaces developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration and used for road signage in the Americas, including the U.S., Canada, Ecuador, Venezuela and Chile, with Asian countries influenced by American signage practices including the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

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Letraset

Letraset was a company known mainly for manufacturing sheets of typefaces and other artwork elements that can be transferred to artwork being prepared.

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List of typefaces

This is a list of typefaces, which are separated into groups by distinct artistic differences.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Magnetic ink character recognition

MICR code is a character-recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

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NatWest

National Westminster Bank, commonly known as NatWest, is a major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom.

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OCR-A

OCR-A is a font that arose in the early days of computer optical character recognition when there was a need for a font that could be recognized not only by the computers of that day, but also by humans.

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Rachel, Nevada

Rachel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.

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Robert Norton (typographer)

Robert Norton (1929-2001) was a British publisher, consultant on printing and Microsoft executive.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Typeface

In typography, a typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Westminster Bank

Westminster Bank was a British retail bank which operated in England and Wales from 1834 until its merger into the National Westminster Bank in 1970; it continued to exist as a dormant registered non-trading company until 4 July 2017 when it was dissolved Considered one of the Big Five, it expanded during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and took over a number of smaller banking companies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_(typeface)

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