↑ The discrepancies in each character made every letter form alive in a way, each moving and changing as the magnifying glass moved through the lines of the document, each in it’s own environment of colors and textures. The other security measures present on the page, at times overlaying the letters, gave these distinct printed forms a three-dimensionality. What would the amalgamation of a character be? By superimposing every instance of every character comes one final visual.
An investigation into the typography of passports.
Passports are constantly being updated to reflect the latest technology by including, and often embedding more sophisticated security features in their design, in order to thwart potential counterfeiters, fraudsters and imposters worldwide.
Guilloche design, holograms, optically variable ink, encoded data, invisible fluorescent fibers, ultraviolet dull paper, watermarking, binding, anti-scan pattern and ultraviolet reactive ink (amongst many others) are all part of the security measures embedded in a passport, but the hardest one to replicate is the type.
What typefaces are used in passports?
Though the answer may always be a mystery to the general public, nothing could stop someone to closer investigate it, after all we do own the document.
Passports are constantly being updated to reflect the latest technology by including, and often embedding more sophisticated security features in their design, in order to thwart potential counterfeiters, fraudsters and imposters worldwide.
Guilloche design, holograms, optically variable ink, encoded data, invisible fluorescent fibers, ultraviolet dull paper, watermarking, binding, anti-scan pattern and ultraviolet reactive ink (amongst many others) are all part of the security measures embedded in a passport, but the hardest one to replicate is the type.
What typefaces are used in passports?
Though the answer may always be a mystery to the general public, nothing could stop someone to closer investigate it, after all we do own the document.
↓ The peep hole of the microscope becomes an obsession, as recording every instance of every character provides reliable evidence of a fact; the same letter forms are non-identical. Following a stage of registering every character printed on the identification page, comes the stage of comparative analysis.
