FONTS: License Plates, Revisited

[dewline]

I've bought or otherwise legally acquired fonts inspired by license plates for cars and suchlike. Canada Type's Driver Gothic and E-Phemera's California Gothic for examples.

Ray Larabie did something interesting last year, that I only recently found out about. He came up with a family of 17 fonts, each of them inspired by one of the most heavily used plate-number styles in North America, each of these from a different US state or Canadian province. He's branded the family "Dealerplate".

By way of visually explaining what Ray's done here, let me link to one of the visual files hosted at his end.

Comments

[sabotabby]

And every one better than what the Tories did.

[dewline]

Hard to believe one could mess up license plate design, and I still paranoically suspect there was a purpose to this particular set of choices.

[almsfortheinsane]

Nice. :^)

[dewline]

Ray does good work.

[almsfortheinsane]

Aye, I like his fonts. :^)

[cynthia1960]

I am pleased by the California font.

[dewline]

Ray's version or E-Phemera's?

[cynthia1960]

Ray's.