Tennessee license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Tennessee license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 6 plate formats issued in Tennessee and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: 262127.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (Tennessee Department of Revenue) 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) for cars; 7 × 4 in (178 × 102 mm) for motorcycles
- Format
- LLL 9999, for example LTO 8199 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Plates on a car
- Rear plate only; no front plate required
- Every fact about Tennessee license plates, with its source
Every Tennessee plate you can make
6 plates across 3 classes (standard, motorcycle, and specialty), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. Tennessee license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Tennessee license plate templates.
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Standard 2022 (2022–2024) Format LLL 9999 · e.g. ZXN 5049 Format, years and sources
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Standard igwt 2022 (2022–2024) Format 999 LLLL · e.g. 346 LYOF Format, years and sources
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Standard 2024 (2024 → today) Format LLL 9999 · e.g. LTO 8199 Format, years and sources
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Standard igwt 2024 (2024 → today) Format 999 LLLL · e.g. 827 IACY Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle (~2024 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 786662 Format, years and sources
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Specialty index (~2024 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 262127 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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