Ontario license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Ontario license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 12 plate formats issued in Ontario and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: O44 25T.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (MTO) 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) (convention, not statute)
- Format
- LLLL 999, for example ZNTE 608 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Every fact about Ontario licence plates, with its source
Every Ontario plate you can make
12 plates across 7 classes (standard, diplomatic, electric, historic, motorcycle, personalized, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. Ontario license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Ontario license plate templates.
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Standard 1986 (1986–1997) Format 999 LLL · e.g. 532 RJK Format, years and sources
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Standard 1997 (1997 → today) Format LLLL 999 · e.g. ZNTE 608 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Commercial (2011 → today) Format LL 99999 · e.g. UE 93502 Format, years and sources
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Standard blue (2020–2020) Format LLLL 999 · e.g. MHJH 973 Format, years and sources
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Electric: Green (2010 → today) Format LLLL 999 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle 2013 (2013–2024) Format 9L9L9 · e.g. 2Y7G5 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle 2024 (2024 → today) Format 99L9L · e.g. 49F2L Format, years and sources
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Trailer 2002 (2002–2025) Format L99 99L · e.g. O44 25T Format, years and sources
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Trailer 2025 (2025 → today) Format LL9 99L · e.g. UB7 77K Format, years and sources
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Historic (2007 → today) Format 9H9999 · e.g. 9H5282 Format, years and sources
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Personalized (1998 → today) Format LLLLLLLL · e.g. GVPTSXGI Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic (1994 → today) Format 999 LLL · e.g. 859 EPN 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.