Seems very cool, but I feel like the ligatures and the vowels aren’t coming out right. But it’s quite possible that the creator knows more about forms of Arabic than I do.
Definitely in North Africa I’ve only ever seen the numbers the way you have them. And Googling “Saudi license plate” etc. shows the same thing.
I would expect pretty much all Arabic speakers to be able to read both variants, but I would also have thought that they’d pick your version for a font.
