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The motivation for the creation of the typeface arose in the late 1970s in the light of terrorism by the Red Army Faction when it was discovered that with the then-standard font for vehicle registration plates—the DIN 1451 font—it was particularly easy to modify letters by applying a small amount of black paint or tape. For example, it was ...
Mandatory is a typeface developed from the Charles Wright typeface, [1] introduced for use on vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom.Its block letters and numbers are designed to prevent easy modification and to improve legibility, with stroke separation on the M and W which are pointed at the centre, and the tail of the Q which is thinner and clearer.
Jersey registration plates consist of the letter "J" followed by one to six digits; plates may incorporate the coat of arms of Jersey in a white strip on the left, above the country identifier GBJ (Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Jersey) and below the text JERSEY. This design is similar to the EU standard plate but it is not blue and is ...
A highway sign using Clearview in Farmington Hills, Michigan, near the terminus of westbound I-696 (2005). The standard FHWA typefaces, developed in the 1940s, were designed to work with a system of highway signs in which almost all words are capitalized; its standard mixed-case form (Series E Modified) was designed to be most visible under the now-obsolete reflector system of button copy ...
Samples of Monospaced typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Anonymous Pro [1]Bitstream Vera Sans Mono [2]Cascadia Code: Century Schoolbook Monospace
In metal typesetting, a font (American English) or fount (Commonwealth English) is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface, defined as the set of fonts that share an overall design. For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman " (or "regular"), " bold " and " italic "; each of these exists in a ...
Since the mid-1990s, however, several teams have shifted away from the block numbers in favor of numbers that match a specific team font (e.g. Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles, etc.) or in the case of the Pittsburgh Steelers, match the jersey number font with the helmet numbers while otherwise leaving the jersey design alone.
The logo of DMA Design from 2001 to 2002. According to MasGrafx Racing Graphics, Microgramma is the font of several NASCAR numbers used by Richard Childress Racing and Dale Earnhardt, Inc., such as the #8 (mainly driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. until 2007), #3 (Dale Earnhardt and Austin Dillon) and #29 (Kevin Harvick). Some of these are in italics.