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California license plate generator

Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real California license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 14 plate formats issued in California and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.

California license plate: GI16T19

Example: GI16T19.

Country or state
California (United States) Change
Link to this plate
Embed on your site The embed draws your text when it is a real registration format; for anything else, download the SVG or PNG.

For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (DMV) 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.

Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) for cars; 7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm) for motorcycles
Format
999LLL9, for example 123SBX4 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
Plates on a car
Two plates, front and rear
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Every California plate you can make

14 plates across 9 classes (standard, dealer, government, historic, motorcycle, personalized, specialty, temporary, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. California license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank California license plate templates.

How the generator works

  1. 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.
  2. Where a plate was issued in several looks (front and rear colours, an older base), choose the design.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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