Ohio license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Ohio license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 7 plate formats issued in Ohio and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: WNV 6896.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (Ohio BMV) 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
- LLL 9999, for example KAB 2026 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Plates on a car
- Rear plate only; no front plate required
- Every fact about Ohio license plates, with its source
Every Ohio plate you can make
7 plates across 6 classes (standard, dealer, motorcycle, specialty, temporary, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. Ohio license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Ohio license plate templates.
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Standard 2013 (2013–2021) Format LLL 9999 · e.g. WNV 6896 Format, years and sources
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Standard 2021 (2021 → today) Format LLL 9999 · e.g. KAB 2026 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle (2015 → today) Format LLL99 · e.g. SZP32 Format, years and sources
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Trailer (2021 → today) Format ULL 9999 · e.g. ULB 1657 Format, years and sources
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Specialty index (~2026 → today) Format LLL 9999 · e.g. GNF 3470 Format, years and sources
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Dealer (2021 → today) Format 999 L9LL · e.g. 302 Z2UF Format, years and sources
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Temporary (~2026 → today) Format LLLLLLL · e.g. YZEKMGP 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.