Pennsylvania license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Pennsylvania license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 9 plate formats issued in Pennsylvania and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: QCUWPXV.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (PennDOT) 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 ABC-1234 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Plates on a car
- Rear plate only; no front plate required
- Every fact about Pennsylvania license plates, with its source
Every Pennsylvania plate you can make
9 plates across 8 classes (standard, dealer, government, motorcycle, personalized, specialty, temporary, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. Pennsylvania license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Pennsylvania license plate templates.
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Standard: Visit PA (~2017 → today) Format LLL-9999 · e.g. ABC-1234 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Let freedom ring (2025 → today) Format LLL9999 · e.g. ZTQ8661 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle (~2017 → today) Format 9LL99 · e.g. 3RH22 Format, years and sources
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Trailer (~2017 → today) Format XLL-9999 · e.g. XHD-9675 Format, years and sources
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Personalized (2017 → today) Format LLLLLLL · e.g. QCUWPXV Format, years and sources
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Specialty index (2017 → today) Format LLL9999 · e.g. GDA9607 Format, years and sources
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Dealer (~2017 → today) Format H99-999H · e.g. H91-699H Format, years and sources
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Temporary (2017 → today) Format 9999-999 · e.g. 1861-491 Format, years and sources
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Government (~2017 → today) Format PA-99999 · e.g. PA-89921 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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