Those "German" style reg plates.

Audi is the favourte skanger brand these days, so the naff fake german plates complete the look.

In true Irish style, we go from no regulations to bringing in the most complicated convoluted regulations in the world, and then practice almost zero enforcement.

From wiki, if it's accurate : "Unlike legal requirements in all other European countries, a standard uniform character font is not required. The rules simply require legible black sans serif characters, no more than 70 mm high and 36 mm wide with a stroke width of 10 mm, on a white reflective background. The result is that a large variety of perfectly legal font styles may be seen, on either pressed aluminium or acrylic plates, both of which are allowed.[2] Despite the rather relaxed lack of a specified font, the hyphen between the lettering must lie between the minimum dimensions of 13mm x 10mm or the maximum dimension of 22mm x 10mm. Vehicle owners may be fined if the plate's format does not meet the requirements, and the vehicle will fail the mandatory periodic National Car Test"

A san serif font, means any font without projecting characters (Serifs)

An example of a Sans Serif font


An example of a Serif font


Serifs marked in red


I do like the not well known abilty to choose your own font style though, as long as its san serif.

I doubt those german style fonts are sans serif ?

In fairness the french fonts look good on french motors.