Westminster (typeface)

Westminster (typeface)

Westminster is a display typeface bundled with certain Microsoft products (including Windows 98 and Windows Me). It was created in the 1960s and is named after the British bank that helped fund its production. The entire font is based on the machine-readable numbers printed on cheques.

ee also

*List of typefaces
*OCR-A font, another font designed to be machine-readable.


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