These license plates are based directly on current New York license plates, as seen here. Beneath the registration name is ' Liberty City State'. Every vehicle that has a license plate has 'LIBERTY CITY' in large blue capital letters, with the exception of the immovable trailers found ingame, which all bear the registration 'ON-10N EC'. In Grand Theft Auto IV, license plates do not have an actual letter-number combination. While still more varied than in GTA III and GTA Vice City, the games only offer a limited number of license numbers, with each of them specific to certain vehicles models. These will change if a new session of play is started, even if stored in a garage.įor Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, license plates in both games feature a 'LC' (Liberty City) and 'VC' (Vice City) prefix, respectively, followed by a four-digit number. Note, however, that during a session of play, all cars of the same model will have the same number plate (for example, all Landstalkers will have the same plates).

Each of the three major cities in San Andreas have their own plates and some vehicles have their own custom license numbers. License plates are dynamic in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, generating a random 7 character number in the format AB12 3 CD, divided into groups of four and three characters. In GTA Vice City there are a few different variants of plates, including a Florida one, however all of them are illegible. Here's a German truetype variant that I stumbled across.Īdditionally you could just ask the ASTRA Authority, maybe they'd be helpful since 'The ASTRA determines the typeface and dimensions for letters and numbers'.License plates in GTA III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City are static textures, with all plates in GTA III reading LC R29. Its top recalls the capital O from Germany’s FE Schrift. License plates, while the odd zero character with its base wider than

Some of the numbers, however, exhibit oval-shapedĬurves akin to, but a bit different from, those seen in American Some charactersĪre based on DIN 1451, such as C, G, O, and Q, which retain DIN’sĬircular rounds, while other characters with rounded shapes such as B,ĭ, P, and R feature more squarish rounds, similar to France orīritain’s alphabets. Switzerland’s font seems to show multiple influences. That being said, there are a number of typefaces available that either were modeled after or resemble various types of license plates.Ī good clone is Numberplate Switzerland | 2000–2004, Stephan Müller, commercial You will NEVER find a 100% accutare version of this unless you fly over to Switzerland and manage to source and bring back the dies. The characters are imprints from plate-making dies made specifically for the plate-making machines that produce them. These are not fonts in the traditional sense where you can just download them digitally to use.

Common fonts on license plates