French license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real French license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 17 plate formats issued in France and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: W-280-NS.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (SIV) 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
- 300 × 210 mm (11.8 × 8.3 in); 520 × 110 mm (20.5 × 4.3 in); 275 × 200 mm (10.8 × 7.9 in) for cars; 210 × 130 mm (8.3 × 5.1 in) for motorcycles
- Format
- LL-999-LL, for example BX-427-QM (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Every fact about France license plates, with its source
Every France plate you can make
19 plates across 8 classes (standard, consular, dealer, diplomatic, historic, moped, motorcycle, and temporary), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. France license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank French license plate templates.
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Standard: FNI (~1984–2009) Format 999 LL 99 · e.g. 242 DE 99 Format, years and sources
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SIV standard (2009 → today) Format LL-999-LL · e.g. BX-427-QM Format, years and sources
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SIV standard 275×200 mm (2009 → today) Format LL-999-LL · e.g. GR-453-XY Format, years and sources
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SIV standard 300×210 mm (2009 → today) Format LL-999-LL · e.g. FR-756-FV Format, years and sources
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SIV motorcycle (2009 → today) Format LL-999-LL · e.g. JK-320-MY Format, years and sources
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Moped: SIV cyclomoteur (2009–2015) Format L 99 L · e.g. R 66 L Format, years and sources
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SIV moped (2015 → today) Format LL-999-LL · e.g. GM-101-ME Format, years and sources
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Historic: Collection (2009 → today) Format LL-999-LL · e.g. OP-586-KM Format, years and sources
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Dealer: W garage 2009 (2009–2025) Format W-999-LL · e.g. W-280-NS Format, years and sources
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Dealer: W garage 2026 (2026 → today) Format W-999-LL · e.g. W-789-KJ Format, years and sources
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Temporary: WW 2009 (2009–2025) Format WW-999-LL · e.g. WW-702-QB Format, years and sources
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Temporary: Transit red (2009 → today) Format LL-999-LL · e.g. UY-993-BX Format, years and sources
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Temporary: WW 2026 (2026 → today) Format WW-999-LL · e.g. WW-979-ZI Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic CD (2009 → today) Format 999 CD 9999 · e.g. 600 CD 8433 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic CD delegation (2009 → today) Format L 999 CD 999 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic K (2009 → today) Format 999 K 9999 · e.g. 160 K 7274 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic K delegation (2009 → today) Format L 999 K 999 · e.g. V 394 K 752 Format, years and sources
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Consular C (2009 → today) Format 999 C 999 99 · e.g. 137 C 586 88 Format, years and sources
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Consular K (2009 → today) Format 999 K 999 99 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.
More French license plates
- France license plates
- Blank French license plate templates
- The département number on French plates (in French)