CMC7

CMC7 font by Harold Lohner is a free techno display typeface that channels the strange beauty of old magnetic-ink check readers. Its letters are built from rigid, evenly spaced vertical bars that bend just enough to suggest curves, like a barcode melted into letterform. The result feels both mechanical and ghostly—crisp, staccato strokes that read as text from afar but resolve into machine code when you get close.

Using CMC7 turns any word into a strip of futuristic scanning data, so it shines on sci‑fi posters, cyberpunk titles, experimental branding, club flyers, glitch art, and motion graphics. This free font likes to run large, where the bar structures can really vibrate; pair it with a simple geometric sans-serif for body copy to keep everything legible and grounded.