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I recently noticed that the State of Illinois has changed the font of the *stamping* on license plates.
The design is the same, but the stamped text is a bit thinner and the glyphs are blockier.
I am surprised how much this change is bothering me, to be honest. It has never occurred to me how much that is a defining feature. The first one I saw I assumed had to be fake!
@TechConnectify There was a brief period here in Ontario (Canada) when a quality control issue on the plates meant that they had to temporarily order them from a different place - and they came with a different stamped font (I believe they came from Nova Scotia and used their font). Was really odd to see!
We also briefly had printed plates, but they were inverted (bright numbers on dark background) and cops complained that they were hard to read, especially at night when shining a light on them. So we went back to the old stamped plates.
@kepstin I suppose it's possible that's what's happening, but at the same time I can recognize there were legibility flaws with the old font. So I'm more inclined to believe this is a deliberate change.
@kepstin although, speaking of quality control issues, there was a run of plates where the paint would flake off very prematurely. Not helped by the fact that we use road salt in the winter!
It was free to get a replacement, but a lot of folks would end up just repainting their plates. Which was kind of adorable.
@TechConnectify the quality control issue we hit here was exactly the same thing - paint flaking off the numbers! Indeed, we use road salt here too. We also did the free replacement thing, but it was a big enough run of plates and the quality control issue hadn't been solved yet, which is why a second source of places was used temporarily.