Number Plate Fonts

It seems that some cars with cherished number plates think it’s ok to use a ridiculous font, making the registration nearly illegible a lot of the time. Not only is this a nuisance for the authorities, but after spending a pretty penny on a fancy registration, why would you want to go and ruin it with a tacky font? Most reputable number plate manufacturers would not allow the use of illegal fonts as they have to be licensed by the DVLA and I’m sure they wouldn’t risk losing this licence. So where are people getting these number plates made? The obvious answer would have to be the Internet. There are literally dozens of number plate manufacturing websites that allow the use to design their number plates with a whole host of options including illegal fonts and graphics. How do they get away with it? Well they say that these plates are for ‘show’ use only and not to be displayed on road cars, knowing perfectly well that the majority of these illegally designed number plates are going straight on a car! So what can the authorities do about this? Well not a lot by the looks of things as they Internet dealers seem to be all over the place. Some of them even set up in the Republic of Ireland, trying to evade the clutches of the UK authorities.