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I believe fancy typography has no place on a license plate.

Germany designed the FE-Schrift especially for license plates which is hard to forge/easily (machine-) readable.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10444760

It's a play on their flag design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Maryland

See texas, its worse.

I can still read the Texas plate. Even knowing the default plate number is MD plus the year of joining the US doesn’t help to be able to read the Maryland plate. I’m not even sure why there is the faux-3D look anyway.