Safety element with relief structure and manufacturing method thereof

In a security element (S) for producing documents of value such as banknotes, checks or the like which is a subject against a background that includes a relief pattern (7, 10, 12-14, 16, 17) comprising a motif region (1, , an outline (3) is covered 4) of the security element (S) and there provides the subject and a background area (2) of the security element (S) is covered, and there provides the background provided which delimits the subject against the background, which also by the relief structure is formed, wherein the relief structure (12, 14, 17) of the outline from the relief structure (10, 13, 16a) of the design area and the relief pattern (7, 16b) of the background area (2) is different, so that a brightness and / or color contrast between the contour line (3) on the one hand and the subject area (1, 4) and background portion (2) on the other.