Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay are adopting a format based on the European one and the German number plate font?
In Australia, number plates are similar to US ones, but there exists an alternate, larger format based on EU ones, mostly for imported European vehicles. It looks a bit how-do-you-do-fellow-Europeans, and also uses the German font.
French Guinea has EU license plates (upper right corner), pointing it out so you or anyone else can compare it with the mercosur ones.
Isn’t it legally just a perfectly ordinary département of France, formally indistinguishable from Île-de-France or similar? France has a weird fetish for insisting that its most far-flung possessions are not one iota less quintessentially French than anywhere in l’Hexagone
It's a region of France but it has a specific status given the distance, and their own parliament of 55 elected officials
Afaik, Mayotte, Martinique, and Corsica also have the same status and their own parliament
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_territorial_collectivity
weird fetish
Ask people in those "far-flung possessions" whether they agree!
Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay are adopting a format based on the European one and the German number plate font?
Yes, but they always use the narrow type instead of the regular, as their licence plates are less wide. In Germany, the narrow type is only a fallback if there are too many digits on the plate for the use of the regular type.
In October 2014 the members of the Mercosur South American trade bloc agreed to introduce a common design for license plates. They adopted a size of 400 millimetres (16 in) x 130 millimetres (5.1 in) similar to that used in Australia and China. The design uses the narrow script Engschrift FE-Schrift (fälschungs-erschwerdend, forgery-impeding typeface) design to show the registration code with 7 elements. The FE-Schrift was found to perform better against alteration and falsification in comparison to the Brazilian Mandatory script as shown in a test at the INTI. The design also includes a blue strip above the registration code with the Mercosur emblem in the left upper corner, the national flag of the member state in the right upper corner, and the country name printed in the center. It was agreed to introduce the Mercosur design by 2016. The actual introduction was delayed until 2018.
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Chile should lean into the memes and make their license plates vertical instead of horizontal
Thinks that looks like uk. That is uk
Why doesnt bolivia also switch?
From a purely aesthetic pov i like the Chilean one best.
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