Illinois license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Illinois license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 8 plate formats issued in Illinois and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: 980 9382.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (Illinois Secretary of State) 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)
- Format
- LL 99999, for example AB 12345 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Plates on a car
- Two plates, front and rear
- Every fact about Illinois license plates, with its source
Every Illinois plate you can make
8 plates across 7 classes (standard, dealer, government, motorcycle, specialty, temporary, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. Illinois license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Illinois license plate templates.
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Standard 2001 (2001–2017) Format 999 9999 · e.g. 980 9382 Format, years and sources
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Standard 2017 (2017 → today) Format LL 99999 · e.g. AB 12345 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle (~2026 → today) Format LL 9999 · e.g. NA 4778 Format, years and sources
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Trailer semi (1999 → today) Format 9999 ST · e.g. 1204 ST Format, years and sources
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Specialty index (~2026 → today) Format LL 99999 · e.g. CT 25055 Format, years and sources
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Dealer (~2026 → today) Format 99999 · e.g. 91678 Format, years and sources
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Temporary (2020 → today) Format 999 LL 999 · e.g. 861 KM 448 Format, years and sources
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Government (~2026 → today) Format MP 99999 · e.g. MP 42163 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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