With the registry being where it is, would anyone be able to read it?
one idea is to put the registration behind the bridge and have the type's top pointed to the ship's forward. That way you'd be able to read the registry from behind.
Also... any reason for that font? Doesn't look like the starfleet standard :\
Nobody actually reads the registry, starships have transponders, and have an "electronic signature", so reading is irrelevant(technically).
The answer to your font query is, I opted a soviet font just because. "Federation standard" is also no such thing. Plenty of Federation member worlds have their own fonts and signage... I site the Federation long-ranged shuttle that dropped off Spock in TMP. It had a mixture of fonts, as it used both Vulcan a Terran. If you re-read my earlier posts, I sited that my direction for the Alpha-Centaurians was to be biased towards Russian ideology. The fonts are just an extension of that.