Created by Conor Mangat, Platelet is a display screen sans font family. This typeface has 3 styles and was published by Emigre.

Platelet is not simply an upper and lower case alphabet in three weights; it is in reality an entire host of new chances for the typographically-minded driver.

The inspiration for Platelet originated from the California license plate. Comparable to the making up limitations of the typewriter, the manufacture of license plates also needs using monospaced type; not just for mechanical requirements, but also to fulfill the need of fitting a fixed number of characters onto each plate while maximizing their legibility at a distance.

The main function of a license plate, of course, is to determine a vehicle, and the California Department of Motor Automobiles has had different numbering sequences considering that its creation. For instance, when an earlier series of license plates bring six digits was rapidly tired by the quick growing variety of autos, the present seven digit design was embraced, which has undergone numerous schemes of number and letter arrangements. When the DMV lacks serial numbers next time, it would be difficult to increase the variety of digits to 8, considering that 7 is the maximum variety of digits that humans can dependably keep in mind; hence the seven digit telephone number. Possibly future license plate serialization plans will be increased by including characters such as $%&& * # @!?, or perhaps symbols and pictures.

While Platelet is maybe too fanciful for application on basic license plates, its usage may be ideal for the vanity plates, which the DMV offers at a higher rate, to additional separate them from standard plates. The vanity plate owner is permitted to select a customized plan of characters that typically spells a name, word, visual pun, palindrome, etc. Given that the characters on vanity plates normally have a significant arrangement, they are instantly more unforgettable than a string of random characters, and for that reason the design of the letterforms could afford a lower degree of legibility.

Platelet includes some unforeseen solutions to the various problems dealing with monospaced styles. It likewise offers solutions that resolve the reduced legibility of geometric designs, which tend to render lots of characters equivalent, thus decreasing their function for text applications. The "m" and "w" skillfully solve the density issue of the three stems by reducing the middle one. The "i" and "l" fill their width not with the standard prolonged serifs, however with a large curved lead-out stroke. Another imaginative option is the lowercase "b," which includes the upper case form within the lower case character. This increases the acknowledgment aspect of the "b," which would otherwise be very comparable to other characters, such as the "d," due to the geometric rigidity of Platelet's letterform construction.

Font Family:
· Platelet Thin
· Platelet Regular
· Platelet Heavy