Optically variable security element

A method for manufacturing an optically variable security, comprising the steps of:

• providing a substrate having opposing first and second main surfaces;
• producing a coating of the first main surface in that at least one, one-dimensional line grid and one background layer that contrasts with the line grid are applied to the first main surface of the substrate;
• in an embossing step, producing an embossing on the first main surface in that a two-dimensional grid of elevated and/or depressed embossing elements is developed on the first main surface;
• combining the coating and the embossing pattern in such a way that on a majority of the embossing elements lies at least one line segment of a line in the line grid, wherein due to a specific progression of lines in the line grid, on some of the embossing elements no line segment comes to lie;
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• at least two of the parameters ‘position of the line segment on the embossing element’, ‘orientation of the line segment on the embossing element’ and ‘line width of the line segment’ varying location dependently across the dimension of the optically variable pattern such that, due to the line grid, a movement effect is created when the security element is tilted.