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I wonder why they chose monospace. Wouldn't a proportional font be more tamper-resistant?
by xtreme 9y ago
I wonder why they chose monospace. Wouldn't a proportional font be more tamper-resistant?
- jpatokal 9y agoLicense plate recognition would be harder if they used a proportional font.
- msangi 9y agoI'd guess that's because it's designed for a fixed number of letters to a plate. Monoscpace doesn't have spacing issues and possibly make the plates easier to recognize.
- dfox 9y agoOne of the peculeraties of german license plates is that the number is not fixed length at all. Another one is that the dash in the plate number (which is not printed on the FE ones and only implied by position of the inspection stickers) is significant and there could be two plates with same characters that differ only in placement of said "dash".
- _pmf_ 9y agoKeming is hard.
- kalleboo 9y agoThe linked article says "FE-Schrift is a monospaced font (with different spacing for letters and numbers) for improved machine readability"
- hanbura 9y agoGerman licence plates are designed to be cheap to produce in high quality. Tiny licensed shops can just stamp them for you. That's much harder with proportional fonts. And of course OCR, as everybody else already mentioned.