United States · 10 registration series, sourced from Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV).
Type any Florida registration — valid plates render below, on their real designs.
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GET /v1/plates/us-fl/match?plate=…
GET /v1/plates/us-fl/match?plate=ILC%20578
{ "plate": "ILC 578",
"valid": true, "exact": true,
"matches": [{ "id": "us-fl-standard",
"render_url": "…svg?serial=ILC%20578" }] }
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the default series issued to private road vehicles
"Apportioned" at the bottom is the decode: an International Registration Plan vehicle whose fees are divided among the states its fleet actually runs through. The tell-tale detail is the sticker — a month, not the owner's birth month, because fleets have no birthday.
In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.
"Restricted" at the bottom marks a restricted-use vehicle — a class the statute defines purely by cross-reference to six paragraphs of the vehicle-tax schedule. The serial itself carries no meaning.
In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.
The serial is ordinary; the word "Wrecker" along the bottom is the code — Florida legislates its bottom legends, and this one marks a tow truck.
In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.
The characters mean nothing; Florida's geography is spelled, not encoded — the bottom legend names the county where the plate was sold. And that is optional twice over: owners may take "Sunshine State" or the state motto instead, and a county commission can vote its own name off entirely.
In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.
vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico)
The words are the category and the number is the whole serial: a separate series running since "Horseless Carriage No. 1", for vehicles built in 1945 or earlier — a fixed cutoff, not a rolling age.
In the sample, 9 for any digit.
Its own numeric series, statutorily "commencing with Antique No. 1", for vehicles thirty years old and counting — a rolling threshold, the opposite design choice to the Horseless Carriage's fixed one. In 1999 it absorbed and renamed the old twenty-year "Collectible" series.
In the sample, 9 for any digit.
owner-chosen serials inside an official frame
Owner-composed within seven characters, so the letters mean whatever was paid for. The one statutory extra: the personalized statute alone allows a hyphen.
In the sample, L stands for any letter.
optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs)
Over a hundred designs, one rule for the characters: specialty plates carry ordinary Florida serials. The artwork is the message — the serial still decodes to nothing.
In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.
trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle
"Dealer" at the bottom, and the plate binds to the dealership, not to any vehicle. The trap: a dealer may run a specialty design instead, which displaces the legend — the one bottom legend the statute lets disappear.
In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.
"Manufacturer" at the bottom — the maker's own fleet, split from the Dealer legend by the statute itself in adjacent sentences, and born by name in a 1999 chapter law.
In the sample, L stands for any letter and 9 for any digit.