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This week, on Wednesday, I saw one of the new format Alberta license plates for the first time. A couple of years ago the Alberta government announced a contest to design a new license plate to replace the current design which has been in circulation since 1984 as the pool of ABC-123 format combinations was due to run out. After running the competition, the recession hit and the government decided that replacing every plate in the province was an avoidable expense and announced instead that the format would be changed to simply add another digit (ABC-1234) for newly issued plates. Both formats will be valid for the foreseeable future.

It looks like they plan to avoid vowels; the first two plates the I saw were BBF, but I have since seen a couple of BBB plates. The typeface is definitely narrower and will make the license plate game a little more challenging as the plates are a bit harder to read, especially at an angle or in poor light.

For those of you following along at home, I’m looking for plate 633 right now, or x633 on a new format plate.

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