Is Texas license plate ever going to have colors again? (design, car)

[Horizonite]

More important than the color of the plate is the vehicle that it's attached to.

[earthisle]

The colored design is awful. Have you ever tried reading one quickly? It's way more difficult than the black and white. It also doesn't match most cars. Black and white are neutral and match everything.

[recycled]

Although I live in CA, I was recently in TX and several other gulf coast states. I like the plain white TX plate with black characters. Simple, clean and easy to read. I wish every US state would adopt a design similar to TX for the standard issue license plate.

Some states along the gulf coast have goofy-looking license plates. Namely, Alabama, where I lived for a few years in the 1990s. When I lived there, they had a simple "Heart of Dixie" plate. Now, Alabama has so many special plate designs, most of which have hard-to-read black characters on a dark or complex design & color background. Even the stock Alabama plate has so much design background it is hard to read.

Here in CA, many people pay extra to get a plain black plate with yellow block characters and California written in block yellow letters across the top. This is the retro plain black plate design from the 1960s. For the past 18 or so years, the stock CA plate has been plain white, dark blue characters with California written in red cursive letters.

[JH6]

white plates looks great on my pearl white car.

[Lowexpectations]

On the list of things to care about this isn't anywhere near worth even considering putting on the list

[Mr. Clutch]

I'm one of the few that like both the current black and white plates and the previous colorful ones. They're both pretty cool designs in their own way.

Look at it this way, at least it's not nearly as bad as the Virginia or New York plates.

[turf3]

I still think the best look was when I was a kid; one year they were white letters on a black background, the next year would be black letters on a white background, and they just alternated. No cutesy little slogans, artwork, or cursive text that can't be read reliably.


I wish however they would go back to the steel plates with embossed letters. The current plastic with silkscreened letters (not sure if that's the actual process, but it looks like it) looks really really cheap and crummy. Do they still make them at the state pen?


Anyone remember how all the plates in the whole state used to come up for renewal on the same one day? Talk about lines at the DMV...

[C24L]

I think it would be nice if the texas license plate got colors again.I hope we get them again.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by Dopo

If it's not obvious, I HATE the white license plate
And I hate it more because it replaced the previous plate that was extremely cool

Looks like we have had the lame white plate for 4 years
Any hope that we will get a decent plate again?

I believe they gave us the crappy white plates to make more people purchase the custom plates.

A LEO told me the state moved to the white plate because LEOs were having trouble identifying/personally reading the 'middle plate' (the one you like). I liked the oldest plate. The 'middle one' and then the white one......my opinion is the opposite of yours....I hated the middle plate, and like the white one.

I do think Texas has a number of cool custom plates .

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by Lowexpectations

On the list of things to care about this isn't anywhere near worth even considering putting on the list

LOL.

A first world 'problem'.