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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!
But - I'm relieved they're still being stamped.
Shame on all the states that just print them now. Cheapskates.
@TechConnectify Yeah, but look at all the REALLY COOL plates you can get in Arizona now! Seriously, I do think some are awesome and it's an easy way for the state to make money.
Now if only the other states could catch up and get rid of the front plate too!
I'd like to see something replace plates altogether. They have a lot of flaws.
@weiln I disagree so hard on the front plate thing.
Several hit-and-runs get solved every year because the front plate fell off and was left at the scene. I really do not understand the aversion to putting another $1 piece of metal on the front of your car other than aesthetic preferences, and when we're dealing with machines that can kill people aesthetic preferences like that can go eff allllll the way off.
@TechConnectify The one downside I’ve seen with front plates in Portland, because they also have registration stickers, is that they get stolen and re-used as illegal back places on similar-model cars. But that seems like a minor downside and ultimately fixable if the front/rear plates had distinctly different design elements.
@BrianEnigma you know what's funny? There have been actual solutions to this.
GM had a Buick I think where the rear license plate went in a slot that was only accessible from the trunk. So someone would have to break into the trunk to remove the license plate.
Something like that could be done on the front, too, if integration were considered something that needed to be done. But because of states that don't require front plates nobody bothers.
@TechConnectify @BrianEnigma seems like back and front plates could also be made visually distinct (a different colored blank) making it super obvious if they were installed in the wrong place. It would likely take a little education but seems like it might not be that hard.
@mark @BrianEnigma @TechConnectify Nice. The challenge I could see with it in the US is that our license plates are almost state branding a lot of the time which I could see leading to some opposition. That's not a good reason not to do it though.