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1. #Font used on texas drivers license registration
2. #Font used on texas drivers license license

The RAF terrorism however allowed to fund a project over a couple of years - running from the functional scope document being created in 1977 to the final decision of 1982 to not introduce the design on license plates. The first priority was a requirement for readability by humans and machines as the decade was the same that saw the development of other typefaces for optical character recognition, namely OCR-A and OCR-B. And despite the requirement to hinder falsification, the scope document did list that point only in the second place. Faked FE-Schrift letters (e.g., "P" to "R") appear conspicuously disproportionate.Īnother motivation for the new typeface came from a spike in the theft rate of license plates in the early 1970s. Whilst the DIN typeface was using a proportional font, the FE-Schrift is a monospaced font (with different spacing for letters and numbers) for improved machine readability. For example, the initial slashed zero ( ∅ ) could be mistaken for an 8, so Hoefer replaced it by a design with a reduced white slash in the upper right corner. The typeface was slightly modified according to the results of tests that lasted from 1978 to 1980 at the University of Giessen (Department of Physiology and Cybernetic Psychology). The original design for the FE-Schrift typeface was created by Karlgeorg Hoefer who was working for the Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (Federal Highway Research Institute of Germany) at the time.

Modifications to FE-font plates are somewhat more difficult, as they also require the use of white paint, which is easily distinguished at a distance from the retroreflective white background of the plate, in particular at night. For example, it was easy to change a "P" to an "R" or "B", a "3" to an "8", or an "L" or "F" to an "E".

#Font used on texas drivers license registration

The motivation for the creation of the typeface arose in the late 1970s in the light of Red Army Faction terrorism 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.