Kentucky license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Kentucky license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 8 plate formats issued in Kentucky and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: 875668.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (KYTC) 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
- L9L999, for example D5T354 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Plates on a car
- Rear plate only; no front plate required
- Every fact about Kentucky license plates, with its source
Every Kentucky plate you can make
10 plates across 6 classes (standard, dealer, historic, personalized, specialty, and temporary), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. Kentucky license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Kentucky license plate templates.
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Standard 2008 (2008–2020) Format 999 LLL · e.g. 248 EQP Format, years and sources
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Standard 2020 (2020 → today) Format L9L999 · e.g. D5T354 Format, years and sources
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Standard igwt (2020 → today) Format L9L999 · e.g. G2P714 Format, years and sources
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Historic (1968 → today) Format 999 · e.g. 733 Format, years and sources
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Personalized (1977 → today) Format LLLLLL · e.g. DNAKCL Format, years and sources
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Personalized 7×4 MM (1977 → today) Format LLLLLL · e.g. ACVWLN Format, years and sources
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Specialty index (~2026 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 802357 Format, years and sources
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Specialty index 7×4 MM (~2026 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 345152 Format, years and sources
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Dealer (1996 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 875668 Format, years and sources
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Temporary (~2026 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 336944 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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