Is CO due for a new license plate redesign? (live in, title)

[Ruth4Truth]

I agree with you, OP; would like to see more variety in the plate design. it's the first thing I noticed after moving to CO; all the plates look the same, even most of the special-interest ones have the same basic mountain design, and only add an element in the middle of the plate per the special interest of choice.

Why would one have to do away with embossed plates just to get some nice background artwork? California embosses their photo-artwork plates, as well as the plainer plates.

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Why would one have to do away with embossed plates just to get some nice background artwork? California embosses their photo-artwork plates, as well as the plainer plates.

FWIW - The flat plates are likely cheaper, and they're definitely easier to make because you don't have to stamp them.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

FWIW - The flat plates are likely cheaper, and they're definitely easier to make because you don't have to stamp them.

Would the savings be reflected in the registration fees, though?

I like the look of the embossed ones, but maybe I'm just old-fashioned. I'd still opt for the fancy background ones, if I had to give up embossing.

Right now, I have the hunting/fishing conservation ones, which, instead of a central element among the lettering, has wildlife perched on top of the standard mountain theme. I feel it adds a lot more to the boring mountain design, fwiw. Though the one in post #5 is nice, too, but I'd have to eliminate a letter from my vanity plate lettering to accommodate one like that.

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Would the savings be reflected in the registration fees, though?

I like the look of the embossed ones, but maybe I'm just old-fashioned. I'd still opt for the fancy background ones, if I had to give up embossing.

Right now, I have the hunting/fishing conservation ones, which, instead of a central element among the lettering, has wildlife perched on top of the standard mountain theme. I feel it adds a lot more to the boring mountain design, fwiw. Though the one in post #5 is nice, too, but I'd have to eliminate a letter from my vanity plate lettering to accommodate one like that.

Not likely. We're pretty cash-strapped from a DOT perspective. CDOT's 10-year deferred maintenance backlog is over $1 billion and growing. Any savings they realize will probably be reallocated somewhere else.

[Mike from back east]

IMO any savings will be so trivial that it doesn't matter. Thanks to TABOR, Colorado continues to burn the furniture so they can stay warm.

[cowboyxjon]

Ok, I actually reached out to the Department of Revenue (Motor Vehicle Section) and they responded today. To clarify, the default/standard license plates will be the same as they are today - the white mountains, green numbers, green sky, with the embossed/raised lettering. (Yay!).

However, if you want to keep your old letter/number combination when you renew your plates, that would be a custom plate, and those are the god-awful, cheap-looking, non-embossed (flat) printed plates. And based on what they said, all of the non-default plates will be printed on demand with non-embossed (flat) letters/numbers.

[Milwaukee City]

As a license plate collector(yes people really do this) Colorado has an iconic plate design and to get rid of it would be crazy but many states have had iconic plate designs and went away from it ie California(black and gold)(sunset) New York(Liberty plate) and even Iowa has changed to something cartoonish. Printed plates are garabge and nobody likes them, part of the art is the stamping and how you get your design to work within it. Otherwise fine, just go out and do some stupid hologram plate.



As a license plate collector I often change out my front plate to one of my favorites, this month I am rockin' a 1934 Colorado plate I paid $110 dollars for and it looks great on the F150.

[Hschlick84]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

As a license plate collector(yes people really do this) Colorado has an iconic plate design and to get rid of it would be crazy but many states have had iconic plate designs and went away from it ie California(black and gold)(sunset) New York(Liberty plate) and even Iowa has changed to something cartoonish. Printed plates are garabge and nobody likes them, part of the art is the stamping and how you get your design to work within it. Otherwise fine, just go out and do some stupid hologram plate.



As a license plate collector I often change out my front plate to one of my favorites, this month I am rockin' a 1934 Colorado plate I paid $110 dollars for and it looks great on the F150.

I disagree. Montana has quite a few artistic flat printed plates. The printing technology got better over the last 2 decades, you rarely ever see them faded by UV light or weather. Colorado is just behind with the times as being iconic, refuses to upgrade their standard license plates and keep the embossed plates as special order.

https://dojmt.gov/driving/plate-desi...ture-forestry/

Examples

[Plainswalker]

Colorado can do waaaay better, the only other big state plate I see as plain right now is Cali plates, which, Cali as we all can agree are either rental cars, or ******* drivers.

Don't be like California. Do better for your home state.

[Melanzana92]

Nah, our green and white standard plates are iconic and therefore fine.

That being said, I'm not against some sort of "upgrade" to real imagery of something awesome like the Maroon Bells, for example. But again, it should be something awesome, not generic.