Personalized plates

We're experiencing significant delays in our ability to issue personalized and specialty plates. Due to this delay, you may want to consider waiting to apply for a personalized or specialty plate. We don't have a timeline for when production delays will return to normal.

If you applied and your temporary license plate is expiring soon, visit a vehicle licensing office to get a new one.

We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

Learn about the rules for personalized plates, see costs, and begin the application process.

1. Decide what you'd like to have on your plate

Standard-size plates can have between 1 and 7 characters.

Motorcycle and small trailer plates can have between 1 and 6 characters.

You can use:

• Letters
• Numbers
• Hyphens
• Spaces

You can't use:

• Unusual characters: (#, %, &, @, +, !) etc
• Invalid letter and number combinations
• Vulgar, racial, ethnic, or indecent messages

We can deny applications for personalized plates if they violate our personalized plate standards.

Choose which background you want

Chose between personalized plates with:

• The standard mountain background
• A special design background

Use these tools to help you plan your plates:

• See which letter and number combinations are allowed
  1. Go to "Look up personalized plates"
  2. Under "Questions?" select "Click here for Personalized plate requirements"
• Check to see if your plate is available

2. Find out the initial cost for a plate

Personalizing a special design plate will cost more. Contact a vehicle licensing office to find out the total cost of your plates.

Initial cost for plates with the standard mountain background

Note: Yearly plate renewal fees will apply.

Initial cost for special design plates

Note: Yearly plate renewal fees will apply.

3. Submit your payment and application

Mail the payment and a completed Specialty License Plate Application to the address on the form.

4. Update your Good To Go! account, if needed

If you have a Good To Go! electronic tolling pass, be sure to update the contact information on your account with the Department of Transportation. Update your Good To Go! account online, or call 866-936-8246.

5. Renew your plates yearly

You must renew your plates every year.

We will cancel your personalized plates and they will be available for another vehicle owner to use if you don't:

• Renew your personalized plate within 45 days after the renewal date
• Transfer your personalized plate to a new vehicle within 30 days of the sale of your previous vehicle