On September 1st 2001 the DVLA introduced a new compulsory font for all number plates in the United Kingdom. This font was released with the aim of making number plates more easily read. Any number plate attached to a vehicle after this date must meet the requirements detailed below.
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In today's blog, we'll be taking a look at DVLA car number plates, in particular the fonts that will make your reg plates road legal in the UK. The reason that this blog is required at all is because the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency have brought about new legislation and British standards for number plates when it comes to fonts, digits, and spacing.
This font was released with the aim of making vehicle registration plates easier to read by police and ANPR cameras, which will help the police identify vehicles that break any laws. It also helps if you've had your car or private number plates stolen, among a range of other crimes.
The name for UK car registration fonts is called "Charles Wright", which is named after its original designer. The font was used on many old style number plates before an updated version was created, which is sometimes called "Charles Wright New", and it's this new version that is compulsory on all private registration plates as of September 1st, 2001. This font is clear, simple, bold, and pretty much perfect for car number plates, which is why it's being introduced on a widescale basis.
First of all, the digits on UK number plates have to be monospaced. This means that every character (except I / 1) is of equal height and width. This extends to all reg plates on UK roads, from prefix registration plates to suffix private number plates, dateless car registrations, and those from Northern Ireland.
Size matters when it comes to fonts for reg plates, and as mentioned previously, UK number plate fonts are monospaced. As a quick refresher, this means that all letters (except I) and numbers (except 1) are the same height and width.
In addition to this, all characters on UK number plates must also be 50mm wide and 79mm tall, and the thickness of each stroke on the characters must be 14mm. This applies to DVLA personalised registrations as well as general government stock, Northern Irish plates, and all new number plate formats moving forward.
There are some people selling illegal number plates in the UK, or show plates, that don't adhere to British standards and are not road legal. Sometimes they mess with spacing, so the digits look like they spell a word a bit more clearly, and others use illegal tints, colours, and materials for the acrylic reg plates.
Only two fonts are legal for number plates in the UK: standard and 3D effect (aka two-tone). Previously available fonts such as italic, highline and carbon are now prohibited on new registration marks.
In addition to this, you cannot add anything extra to a registration number other than flags and borders. This means that, for example, you cannot add your own slogan beneath your private registration on the number plate (this space is for the name of the manufacturer/supplier of the plate) and you cannot add any custom image to the side of the number plate.
The risk of illegal spacing, materials, digits, or anything else we've detailed is a failed MOT for your vehicle and your number plate may also be seized. You're also liable to a police fine of up to 1,000.
If you'd like to find out more about the DVLA and their legislation for registration plates, you can visit the National Numbers FAQs page. The FAQs page features lots of information regarding new number plate legislation and personalised plates in general, covering retention documents and entitlement information, age identifiers that correspond to the age of your vehicle, the transfer process for DVLA number plates, transfer fees, and all other British standards.
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I dont collect number plates myself, but I do pay attention to the different styles and types and find it all quite interesting (and also means I get very tetchy when I see the wrong period of font or type of plate on a car, because its one of those things once you know whats right and wrong you cant un-notice it LOL)
The earliest of these plates had 3D raised letters and numbers riveted to the metal backing. These gave way to pressed aluminium or Perspex plates we are used to these days, but there was a lot more leeway given to fonts, so long as they fitted into some basic standards of size.
The Black series of UK license plates consisted of fonts nearly same as DIN 1451. In 1972, the United Kingdom issued new license plates with a font created by Gareth Attrill. This UK font is used in several countries like Jordan, and Brazil. Although the UK font is highly visible, Automatic license plate readers and law enforcement have difficulty in recording the numbers. The letter I and the Number 1 and the letter O and the number 0 are exactly the same!
I want to make up some number plates for a early 1960's Matchbox J2 Pick-Up that I have just reworked. The sticking point is the number plates as I cannot find the correct font for them, all I can find is the naff post 2001 narrow version.
The number plate font you require is called "Charles Wright Font" named after the designer I believe. If you "Google" it you should be able to download it and then it comes up with all the other fonts in MS Word (well it does on my computer anyway).
Thanks for the information, am I not right in thinking that there was a Charles Wright 1935 Font, which was a wider version of the current font. When I was trying to find out information about number plate fonts I came across this website -type.com/who-was-charles-wright/ The first line of the website sums it all up perfectly really "It is surprisingly difficult to find information about the origins of the fonts used for vehicle number plates in Britain". I presume originally before 1935 dealers in early cars, lorries, tractors and steam engines just painted the number on the vehicles freehand, did they have a manual of what the fonts were to look like and if so was it the Local Vehicle Licensing Office (LVLO) which gave them out. It wasn't such a nanny state then. I don't know I am sure others have more knowledge than me?
I can't answer any of those questions but what I can do is reveal a means of making authentic pre-2001 plates. There are various firms who make 'show' plates in a variety of fonts, some of which are clearly illegal and only suitable for off-road use, but they also include some of the older styles. They usually have a preview system on their website that allows you to type in any registration you want and customise the plate font, size etc. By downloading the preview images and resizing them you can create authentic plates - helpfully they often include the dimensions so just divide these by your scale and resize the images to those values and your plates will even end up exactly the right size.
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Highline number plates are like regular number plates only they have the registration characters printed in the highline font. The highline font can be used for both 3d number plates and standard number plates. 2351a5e196