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MEXICO LICENSE PLATE FONT PROFESSIONAL
Even there, though, the solution also incorporates a modest squaring of the curves, although the latter has been finessed by professional typeface designers so that the resulting bowls don’t appear as squarish as they would otherwise.) (Note: Condensed versions of DIN 1451 itself, which is a proportional font, do implement this basic design adjustment. In a proportional font, such an outcome could be avoided by making such characters a little wider to enable the bowls to be semicircular, however condensed monospaced designs like license plate fonts don’t permit that solution. The likeliest reason for this is that the smaller-size bowls on these three characters (compared to C, D, G, etc.) would tend to end up disproportionately small if they had to be semicircular within the condensed, fixed-width monospaced lettering grid used on American license plates.
Some fonts that have mainly semicircular curves may nonetheless have squarish ones for the letters B, P, and R (particularly in license plate fonts that are the most condensed). Maintaining a minimum bowl size: Another potential reason for inconsistent appearance in font designs. The mechanical way these design features are handled in license plate fonts is a key factor telegraphing their more industrial appearance, over and above any embossing that might be done. The character strokes in license plate fonts, on the other hand, are typically uniformly thick with no variance. Also, fonts for graphic design like Eurostile contain horizontal strokes slightly narrower than verticals to compensate for a quirk of human perception so that they appear equal-width with the vertical strokes to the eye. For example, the curves in Eurostile connecting its straight sides aren’t perfect 90-degree arcs as with license plate fonts, but subtly finessed for a more refined appearance. Fonts with this type of construction are similar in concept to the mainstream typeface Eurostile, though of course considerably different in implementation - more condensed and without the refined optical adjustments.
Here, characters that would normally be composed of curved sides are box-shaped, i.e., the bowls have all straight sides on left/ right/ top/ bottom with rounded corners (usually perfectly circular 90-degree arcs).
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