Licencia is inspired by the tall, soft-cornered lettering on vehicle licence and registration plates world-wide, and has the functional appearance of serial numbering. Although designed using a 3×7 matrix, Licencia breaks free of the grid whenever necessary and doesn’t stick rigidly to its monospaced origins.

Licencia has features that normal block faces don’t offer. It has a proper lowercase, boasts a full complement of Latin Extended-A characters, and is supplied with a handy faux italic. The fonts are optically spaced, and kerned where necessary, making them more useful and satisfying for display purposes.