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Typeface reconstruction

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Article(s)
Vehicle registration plates, FE-Schrift
Request
please make characters uniform like File:FE-Schrift.svg, sorry for my strange images and eyeballing … -- Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 14:47, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have inverted some so all characters are darker than their background--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:29, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Graphist opinion(s)

"designed to prevent easy modification"?

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Can anyone explain in what sense this font is designed to prevent modification? In the FE-Schrift article, it is explained that FE-Schrift cannot be modified by adding additional foreground colour strokes (usually black) without making the changes look odd. This is what one might typically expect would be done to falsify a vehicle registration plate. Adding background colour is less of a concern, since it will not be retroflective and hence will be obvious at night and under some other lighting conditions.

I grabbed a copy of WP's display of Mandatory, and tried modifying some of the characters in this way (actually by overlaying them in a graphics editor.) In almost everything I tried, it was easy, with perfect registration! Of the ones you might expect, a small number (V --> M and 7 --> Z) don't work, but most do, e.g. J --> U, L or F --> E, O or 0 --> Q, C --> G, O, Q or 0, P --> R, 3 --> 8. There are a few others that don't quite work, but the amount of overhang is so small that any infill with background colour would only be noticed by very close inspection, e.g. D --> B, P --> B, 6 or 9 --> 8.

In short, Mandatory does not seem any more resistant to modification than any average font. Unless someone can source or otherwise explain this claim, perhaps it should be removed? -- 122.200.24.30 (talk) 03:45, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]