# Hawaii license plate: Standard

> The Hawaii standard license plate: format LLL 999, for example AAA 000, 2025 to today, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Hawaii license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--hawaii) (7 registration series).

![Hawaii (United States) license plate, Standard (2025 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-hi/us-hi-standard-2025/hawaii-license-plate-standard.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLL 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2025 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Plate size | 12 × 6 in |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `us-hi-standard-2025` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--hawaii/standard-2025) |

Sources:

- [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-0009.htm)
- [§ 249-7(b): a new series of number plates is issued 'as determined by the directors of finance of each county through majority consent' — the mechanism by which a Hawaii base changes](https://web.archive.org/web/2024id_/https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol04_Ch0201-0257/HRS0249/HRS_0249-0007.htm)
- [City and County of Honolulu, the issuing authority for Oʻahu: the standard plate illustration showing Hawaii spelled with the ʻokina; the $5.00 plate replacement and $0.50 emblem replacement fees](https://www8.honolulu.gov/csd/motor-vehicle-license-plates/)
- [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hawaii)

## About this plate

It also produces something a parse API can actually use: two visually near-identical rainbow plates whose ERA is readable from a single diacritic. THE LIMIT OF THIS ENTRY, STATED PLAINLY: the legend and the geometry are law; the SERIAL ARRANGEMENT is not, because Hawaii delegates it to a majority consent among four county finance directors that is not published. Everything format-shaped here is observed and says so.

## How numbers are issued

The letter group advances; the numeral group cycles. Not published in any instrument located.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Rainbow](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--hawaii/rainbow-1991) | 1991 to 2025 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Rainbow](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/united-states--hawaii/rainbow-1991) (1991 to 2025)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-hi/us-hi-standard-2025.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/hawaii?series=us-hi-standard-2025
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-hi` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "us-hi-standard-2025"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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