SECURITY ELEMENT HAVING RELIEF STRUCTURE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR

The invention relates to a security element (S) for producing security documents, such as bank notes, checks, or the like, which shows a theme in front of a background, which has a relief structure (7, 10, 12-14, 16, 17), which covers a theme region (1, 4) of the security element (S) and provides the theme there and covers a background region (2) of the security element (S) and provides the background there, wherein there is an outline (3), which delimits the theme from the background, which is also formed by the relief structure, wherein the relief structure (12, 14 and 17) of the outline differs from the relief structure (10, 13, 16a) of the theme region and the relief structure (7, 16b) of the background region (2) such that there is a brightness and/or color contrast between the outline (3), on the one hand, and the theme region (1, 4) and background region (2), on the other.