UK number plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real UK number plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 10 plate formats issued in the UK and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: 1234 ABZ.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (DVLA) 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
- No plate size is set in the law
- Format
- LL99 LLL, for example GC68 LBB (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Every fact about United Kingdom number plates, with its source
Every UK plate you can make
10 plates across 6 classes (standard, electric, export, historic, motorcycle, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. UK number plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank UK number plate templates.
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Standard: Prefix (~1984–2001) Format L999 LLL · e.g. A903 MBQ Format, years and sources
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Standard (2001 → today) Format LL99 LLL · e.g. GC68 LBB Format, years and sources
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Ni standard (~2001 → today) Format LLL 9999 · e.g. ABZ 1234 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Ni reversed (~2001 → today) Format 9999 LLL · e.g. 1234 ABZ Format, years and sources
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Standard: Q (~2001 → today) Format Q999 LLL · e.g. Q845 YUY Format, years and sources
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Electric: Green zev (2020 → today) Format LL99 LLL · e.g. MY02 ZRO Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle (2001 → today) Format LL99 LLL · e.g. WX36 NGD Format, years and sources
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Trailer (2018 → today) Format L999 9999 · e.g. I906 2909 Format, years and sources
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Historic blacksilver (~2001 → today) Format LLL 999 · e.g. ZMQ 531 Format, years and sources
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Export X (2001 → today) Format XL99 LLL · e.g. XE70 KGU 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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