Credits

Fonts stay on the server. No commercial font was purchased.

• Alte DIN 1451 Mittelschrift

  Peter Wiegel. SIL Open Font License 1.1 (reserved font name). Default for most countries, including CH, AT, FR, IT, GB, NO, BE and LI. Marked in the UI as stylised.

• D-DIN Bold

  Datto. SIL Open Font License 1.1. Only the country code in the blue band (D, A, F, NL, …).

• Creabyte Plate Font

  Creabyte. An own drawing after photos of embossed Swiss plates, the default for Switzerland. Stylised, not the official typeface. All rights reserved; the font file may not be passed on.

• Swiss font choice (shipped, free)

  D-DIN Condensed Bold (Datto, OFL). Alte DIN 1451 (Peter Wiegel, OFL). IBM Plex Sans Condensed Bold (IBM, OFL) as a Helvetica-like option. TeX Gyre Heros Cn Bold (GUST) as a Helvetica Condensed substitute. Liberation Sans Narrow Bold (Red Hat, GPL-2 with font exception) as an Arial Narrow substitute. Racing Sans One (Impallari, OFL) in a US plate style, in the Fun group. None of them is the official ASTRA/Lineto face.

• Further free fonts

  Plate-like: Barlow Condensed Bold (Barlow Project, OFL), Oswald SemiBold (Oswald Project, OFL), Roboto Condensed Bold (Roboto Project, OFL), Sofia Sans Condensed Bold (Lettersoup, OFL), Archivo Narrow Bold (Omnibus-Type, OFL), Overpass Bold (Red Hat, OFL, a free reading of Highway Gothic), Big Shoulders Display Bold (Patric King, OFL). Fun: Black Ops One, Bungee, Press Start 2P, Monoton, Tilt Neon, Russo One (all OFL). Variable fonts without a reserved name were reduced to one fixed weight; fonts with a reserved name are unchanged. Source: Google Fonts.

• Fun plates

  Fantasy templates (I ❤ …, Agent 007, NO PLATE, mirror text, show plate gold, carbon, neon, mum’s taxi). Not official, no police or authority plates, no arms or seals. Heart, rings, checker and carbon pattern are our own GD drawings.

• Optional Swiss fonts (not shipped)

  SNV (URW, commercial), Penitentiary Gothic (E-phemera, commercial, not public domain), Arial Narrow Bold and Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold (system, proprietary), LL Numberplate Switzerland (Lineto, commercial). Path in config.local.php under plate_fonts or a file under resources/fonts/optional/. See docs/ASSETS.md.

• GL-Nummernschild

  Gutenberg Labo. Free use according to LICENSE.txt in the font folder. Germany, a recreation of the FE face. Seals stylised: a pair of circles after the district code, no inspection sticker and no state arms.

• Kenteken

  LeFly Fonts. CC BY-SA 3.0. An interpretation of the Dutch plate face, not the RDW master. Source: lefly.vepar.nl. The licence text is next to the font file. Share-alike applies to the font file, not to a rendered PNG. NL stays stylised.

• QR Code

  Encoder by Kazuhiko Arase, MIT licence. “QR Code” is a trademark of DENSO WAVE.

Proportions

• EU band

  Council Regulation (EC) No 2411/98: blue field 40–50 mm wide, circle of stars 15 mm, distinguishing sign at least 20 mm. At 420×100 px the band is 40 px (about 44 mm when 100 px stand for 110 mm). Photo reference: Wikimedia Commons “German license plate 0-180-6.jpg”.

• Switzerland and Liechtenstein

  CH rear: federal arms left, cantonal arms right, dot at mid letter height. The shields are public-domain files from Wikimedia Commons, not an official ASTRA depiction. Front without arms. LI: blue over red, without the princely crown.

• Other detailed countries

  AT without the federal seal. FR shows only the department number on the right, no regional arms. IT shows only the province on the right, no year disc. BE: black rim, bordeaux approximated as #8C1D40. NO: white field, flag band and N. NL yellow close to RAL 1023 (#F5C400). GB: white front, yellow rear, geometric Union Jack, no Charles Wright face.

Charles Wright (GB) and Lineto/ASTRA (CH) are not shipped. Colofon