British Columbia license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real British Columbia license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 13 plate formats issued in British Columbia and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: HV226A.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (ICBC) or a licensed plate maker, and showing a registration that was not issued to the vehicle is an offence in most places.
Private by design. The page downloads an empty plate and writes your registration into it on your device; the registration is never sent to us. Need many plates, or plates in your own app? The plates API returns every plate and its empty template for each format.
- Format
- L999LL, for example X336WJ (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Every fact about British Columbia licence plates, with its source
Every British Columbia plate you can make
13 plates across 7 classes (standard, agricultural, historic, motorcycle, personalized, specialty, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. British Columbia license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank British Columbia license plate templates.
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Standard 2014 (2014–2025) Format LL999L · e.g. HV226A Format, years and sources
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Standard 2025 (2025 → today) Format L999LL · e.g. X336WJ Format, years and sources
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Standard: Commercial truck (2025 → today) Format 9LL999 · e.g. 5EY623 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Prorate (2025 → today) Format 9999P9 · e.g. 1007P8 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Industrial (2025 → today) Format 9X9999 · e.g. 7X7384 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle (1970 → today) Format 999LL · e.g. 407NW Format, years and sources
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Agricultural: Farm (2025 → today) Format 99999L · e.g. 61202C Format, years and sources
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Trailer utility (2025 → today) Format 9ULLL9 · e.g. 5URXW5 Format, years and sources
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Historic: Vintage antique (1966 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 749709 Format, years and sources
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Historic: Collector (2006 → today) Format LLL999 · e.g. JRI225 Format, years and sources
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Personalized (1979 → today) Format LLLLLL · e.g. CDNDRD Format, years and sources
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Specialty: Parks 2017 (2017–2025) Format RK999L · e.g. RK534X Format, years and sources
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Specialty: Parks 2025 (2025 → today) Format P999LL · e.g. P617LY Format, years and sources
How the generator works
- Choose a country or state, then the plate: the standard plate first, then motorcycle, personalized, historic and the rest, each with the years it was issued.
- Where a plate was issued in several looks (front and rear colours, an older base), choose the design.
- Type a registration, a name or any text. It is drawn on the plate as you type, in the plate's own lettering, and shrunk to fit when it is long (24 characters at most). The generator also says whether it fits that plate's real format, the one the issuing authority publishes; tick "Only real formats" to draw real registrations only and see which plates a registration fits. Characters the plate's lettering does not have, like emoji, are left out, and the generator names them.
- Download the plate as SVG (a vector for print and design tools) or PNG (2400 pixels wide), copy a link, or copy the code to embed it on a web page.
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