Bar code 39 font

Something that should be pointed out regarding bar codes. Having such a font isn't enough. That is, you can't necessarily drop a bar code straight into a project and have it be readable at a checkout counter.

If the code is being printed on a high quality paper, and on a professional printing press, then you can likely get away with it as is. But it all depends on the process. If you're going to print on a plastic bag with a flexo press (rubber printing plates), then there's going to be a lot of spread. Such that lines will print too thick, and possibly run over each other.

That's where reduction comes in. The printer will tell you what the reduction percentage is for the process being used, and material being printed on so the final printed bar code works as expected. A good bar code generating app will do this for you. If a bar code needs to be reduced by 25% (and that would be a lot for most purposes), you can't just scale down the whole thing by 25%. You have to reduce each vertical bar on center by 25% so they maintain their relative positions to each other. Like this (using Code 39 as an example). Top is normal. Bottom is a 25% width reduction.

As I do not download fonts, and in particular the Bar code 39 font, I am uncertain of the correct free font site to direct you. Perhaps someone else will post here with that information rather than a Google guess.

Do you know where I can download the font?

I cant give you a source either but "free" fonts are among the leading cause of adware infections. You must find a trustworthy site like a major company. Too many small hosting sites use the promise of "free" to lure unsuspecting users into downloading bad stuff bundled with the software they wanted.

If it's free when it shouldn't be, it will have a cost in malware exposure.

Here's one (of many) places to get it.

https://fonts2u.com/bar-code-39.font

Simple download with just the font and a text file.

Edit: Never mind. That one's junk. Someone gave all of the character names duplicates of the Unicode entries. You can't simply type numbers and letters to have it work.

Drag and drop the font into your /Users/yourname/Library/Fonts folder. That is one of three default locations that the operating system scans for fonts.

This one is at least useful:

https://www.dafont.com/code39.font

Keys and which bars they produce:

bleyeme wrote:

Thank you! Do you know where I can download the font?

Did you try a google search?