Jonathan Hoefler @jonathanhoefler.com · Jan 5 An opportunity to improve legibility, at no cost! For @nysdmv, and others. Originally, license plates had bubbly letters because of how they were fabricated: characters were stamped in relief, and their faces were painted by a roller. But today, → (1/4)
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(2/4) …plates are printed and stamped in separate steps, so there's no need for gloppy shapes. Change only the art, not the dies, to include crisper intersections. (Left, the real plate; right, a mockup.) Same topology, different art. →