How do you get different fonts?
Until about 1988, Virginia’s standard plates were AAA-### format with a Sans Serif font. That’s when I saw the first plate.
When they switched to AAA-#### format, they needed more room for the extra character. So they switched to a Times Roman-looking monospaced font. That’s when I saw the second plate.
Before the font/format switchover, they started including the letters I, O, Q, and Z, which had be omitted because they looked like numbers. But I guess someone at the plate factory got ahead, because for the “PQR-###” series of plates, the P & Q are in the old font, but the R is in the new font. I saw several of these initially, but they’ve been phased out. However, there is one car sitting in an apartment garage near my office that still has the mixed-font PQR plate.
You must unlearn what you have learned. – Yoda
I once saw on that simply said LCNSPL8. Thought it was pretty funny.