Bar Code Fonts, Where To Find Them

Posted Apr 29th 2004 12:03PM by Pariah S. Burke

A Design Weblog reader, Chris, asks:

Where can I find good quality barcode fonts? Our creative team needs them for both OS X and Windows (for package design), and our warehouse needs them on Windows to be used inside FileMaker Pro databases (inventory control).

Good question, Chris. There are some excellent bar code fonts out there. I've listed a few resources below. This list is by no means exhaustive. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any OpenType bar code fonts, so you'll have to license both Mac and Windows Type 1 or TrueType formats. And, as with all fonts moving between the platforms, the display may differ slightly in your FileMaker databases and other documents when they're moved from Windows to Mac or back again.

various bar codes Bitstream makes bar code fonts for 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar, Code 128, Code 39, MSI-Plessey, UPC, and Zip Code. The Bitstream site also recommends contacting a Bitstream sales person to see if other bar code fonts are available.

BizFonts offers MICR E-13B, CMC-7, OCR, POSTNET, PLANET, PDF417, Code 39, Code 128, DataMatrix, Codabar, UPC, EAN, Interleaved 2 of 5, MSI Plessey, and more, as well as bar code font integration tools.

Elfring Fonts has Windows only TrueType and some Type 1 and UNIX/DOS PCL fonts for 2 of 5, 2 of 5 Interleaved, 3 of 9, 93, 128 UCC/EAN, Bookland, Codabar, EAN 8, EAN 13, Postnet, UPC-A, and UPC-E.

From RiversEdge you may obtain Code 39, 3 of 9, Full ASCII, Mod 43, Code 128/UCC/EAN128/SCC14/18, Code 93, Codabar, 4 State Australian Postal code, Interleaved 2 of 5, PostNet, FIM & Planet Code, MSI-Plessey (Mod 10/ Mod 11), UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8, ISBN, and 2 & 5 digit Supplements in formats for Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP (Truetype & Postscript), Macintosh (Truetype & Postscript), Unix Postscript (Postscript Type 1 & Postscript Type 3), UNIX/DOS HP PCL (PCL Softfonts), IBM AFP (Bounded & Unbounded Box), Siemens (Graphmod), and Xerox (Centralized & Decentralized)

For Windows 3.1x, 95, 98, ME, NT 3.x, NT 4.x, XP, 2000, CE, Unix, Linux, OS/2, and OS/2 War ID Automation offers speciality Java-based software to print PDF417 2D barcodes.

Reader Comments

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1. Dear DesignWeblog,

The barcode font "3 of 9" is free and can be used in commercial applications. A little search on google show you several places to download the font. Pretty useful !

Regards

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Francois Verbeeck

2. I highly recommend Azelea as a source for high-quality cross-platform barcode fonts and support utilities. They were conspicuously absent from your list.

http://www.azalea.com/

g.

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Grant Hutchinson

3. Thanks, Grant. My list is hardly exhaustive, as I noted. Thanks for adding to it!

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Pariah Burke

4. I encourage everyone here to take a look at Morovia Barcode fonts and software. 100% compatible with Microsoft Office. Unbeatable! the URL is
http://www.morovia.com/font/

They also have a good barcode knowledge site at
http://www.morovia.com/education/

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marshal_at_Kansas

5. If you are looking for UPC or EAN barcode fonts, take a look of our website at http://www.32tech.com

Please call us and mention this page, we will provide you a discount price.

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by UPC Barcode Fonts

6. Hello, I work for a Petroleum Distribution in Indianapolis, In. I'm looking for a bar code system to be able to put bar codes on fleet units so I can Scan the bar code and get truck number and gallons that are pumped off to each unit!
If you can help me with this or know a company that can help me I would appreciate it!

Thanks Terry
Crystal Flash Petroleum

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Terry Pearman

7. PrecisionID at www.precisionid.com recently entered the barcode market. PrecisionID offers professional barcode solutions including OCR-A/B, MICR, Code 128, and Code 39. The PrecisionID programming staff brings more than 5 years of industry experience and it shows in a reliable, easy to use product.

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Donna Kanipe

8. If you are looking to add barcodes in your Office documents like Word, Excel or other third party publishing tools. You could take a look at SmartCodeComponent(http://www.technoriversoft.com/component.html) from Technoriver

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by James Boo

9. If you are looking for free (really free) fonts and encoders, have a look at these pages :
- http://grandzebu.net/informatique/codbar-en/codbar.htm
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/winbarcodes/
It's a GNU GPL project which provide you fonts and VB encoders for 3 of 9 code, code 128 and EAN 128, EAN 13 and EAN 8, interleaved 2 of 5, PDF417 and Datamatrix symbologys.

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Grandzebu

10. Another source for free barcode fonts can be found at http://freebarcodefonts.dobsonsw.com with free copies of Codabar, Code 128, and Code 93.

Posted at 6:02AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Free Barcode Fonts

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