Which state has the best-looking license plates?

I'm enjoying the new Smokey Bear ones here in Oregon: 

Living 6 months a year in CA I have learned to hate the plate white with red script plate.

Utah's plate with Delicate Arch is pretty cool

NC has one speciality plate I can't love enough

I've always liked the 80s California "sunshine" plates, the ones like this.  A decade or so ago they brought back the black "60s" plates as a retro thing -- I wonder if the "radwood" scene can convince them to make 80s style plates again?

In reply to thatsnowinnebago :

Oh, I really like that one.  Would definitely pay the premium to put it on my car.  

Big fan of Vermont's utilitarianism here: 

It really pops on certain cars. 

Also really like Tennessee's latest: 

I can’t remember if I have photos, but we used to have a collector nearby who had all the states, all the years, all the everything. The collection covered the walls of several buildings with everything in order.

We visited after his passing, too, and I recall seeing boxes upon boxes of plates. No idea where they went. 

wisconsin's recent road america plate is pretty cool

I was surprised to see this one pass here in Florida.

79rex said:

 

wisconsin's recent road america plate is pretty cool

That is pretty perfect. Subtle, classy, on target. 

David S. Wallens said:

I was surprised to see this one pass here in Florida.

You can get university plates here, too, but only Michigan-based. I think if someone put Ohio State on a Michigan plate, it would spontaneously burst into flames.

In reply to Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) :

Same here. Florida offers lots of plates for state institutions. When I saw this campaign come up in an alumni e-mail, I didn’t think it would pass. Yet here we are. 

I came to post the polar bear plate, not surprisingly that was the first one picked. After that the Statue of Liberty plate, and I like the colors on this New Mexico plate. 

The new Ohio ones are trash. The design is busy and too much like the Bob Evans plates no one liked either and printed plates look a lot worse than stamped ones. 

The coveted DE black plates around here. The lower the number, apparently the more $$$$...

Oh, plates. A topic I know far too much about, and have very strong opinions on. My father is a prolific collector and regional director of ALPCA. If you collect plates and live in the northeast, you know him. I believe he has somewhere on the order of 50,000 plates.

I have somewhere on the order of 300. less impressive.

My all time favourite was the FL Challenger plate. Good colors, great layout. Somber and beautiful

So of course it was replaced by the less interesting challenger plate (featuring the orbiter in space!) and eventually watered down to the meh Challenger-Columbia plate.

I had always been attracted to the screen prints, Utah and Wa come to mind.

But found after moving to WA, they lose their appeal when you see them on every single car. I vowed never to put one on my cars. My Daily wore a spectacular state park speciality:

And my Camaro wore a National park plate:

until such time as I found a proper 'year of Manufacture' plate

My least favourite plates are the conservative pearl clutching virtue signaling plates, although in conjunction with the right vanity can prove to be pretty funny

In regards to the NWT bear plates the only other Non-standard north american plate I am aware of is the early Tennessee plates:

I like black plates with white lettering.

Alaskan yellow Final Frontier or Bear Plates. New Mexico chili peppers plate is a close far behind.

My current fave...

My previous fave...

I might have a slight bias...

I like the MT plate from the standards posted above. 
 

I saw a Georgia plate with an OHIO STATE logo recently. WTF? Anything to make money I guess. 

https://mvd.dor.ga.gov/motor/plates/PlateDetails.aspx?pcode=SO

Toyman! said:

Ours are a lovely bland. 

I liked the sunrise palmetto plate better.

In reply to Turbo_Rev :

Also on the blue TN plate, numbers then letters will have in god we trust around the tri star logo. Letters then numbers will just have the tri star logo.

Kentucky had some facepalms and decent plates over the years...

But nothing beats that the Commonwealth got sued over the "Smiley" or teletubby plate, bottom right corner of the above image.

News article linky

Back when I was younger, living in Quebec, we got a new colour every year.....

I like the loon and the moose.