All About Novelty Plates And Signs - 1

All About Novelty Plates And Signs - 1

The concept of fashion and style has certainly extended beyond clothing and accessories. In several countries, especially the United States and Canada, using novelty license plates has become quite popular among younger generation and car lovers. A novelty license plate is a custom designed license plate for automobiles and other vehicles. In 19 U.S. states front DMV license plate is not a must. Therefore people are allowed to use custom designed license plates at the front of their vehicles. People use this opportunity to display their passion and desires on their vehicles.

The 19 U.S. states that require only the rear license plate are:

• Alabama

• Arkansas

• Arizona

• Delaware

• Florida

• Georgia

• Indiana

• Kansas

• Kentucky

• Louisiana

• Michigan

• Mississippi

• New Mexico

• North Carolina

• Oklahoma

• Pennsylvania

• South Carolina

• Tennessee

• West Virginia

People could always find a little humor in novelty license plates that they come across on  the vehicles speeding up on busy streets and highways. The fascinating thing about novelty plates is that they allow people to incorporate their passion, identity, carrier or personal preferences into the vehicle license plate. For instance, if you are a golf player with a passion for the game, a funny novelty plate can be inspired by a golf theme. If you are a tech guy spending your entire life on the internet, why wouldn't your license plate reflect it? For instance, you could use a funny internet phrase such as 'LOL' or 'OMG' in the novelty plate.

One other interesting fact about novelty license plates is that not all people who purchase novelty plates put them on their vehicles. Due to the endless freedom of design and art, most novelty license plates end up as home decor in living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms. Some people also have more than one novelty license plate, elaborating their passion and desire for different things.

Besides novelty license plates, other types of novelty signs and plates are also popular in the United States. Novelty signs are multipurpose and they come in different sizes. For example, some novelty signs are designed for domestic use  such as light switch cover plates, while some others allow users to customize them by inserting small photos into them. Novelty signs are available in different shapes, such as stop sign shape, circular and half plate. These signs and plates can be further customized using monogramming, engraving or airbrushing.

There are number of novelty signs and plates sellers within United States, who produce customized and themed novelty plates. They can be bought from online novelty plates shops as well. Depending on the level of design, detail and colors put into a novelty plate, the average price can vary between $10 to $25.

In addition to commercially sold novelty plates, state vehicle registration agencies also issue vanity plates (also known as "personalized" or "prestige" plates), which are basically extra-cost license plates with a custom serial (sequence of letters and/or numbers). However, almost all U.S. States and Canadian provinces that issue vanity license plates maintain a "blue list" of vanity plates that contains banned words, phrases, or letter/number combinations with profane or obscene messages, although standards as to what constitutes an unacceptable message vary widely among issuing jurisdictions.  These restrictions are also made to eliminate the confusion with the license plates used on federal government vehicles or license plates used on other classes of vehicles.

In 2007, the  American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) conducted the first ever vanity plates survey in North America. According to the survey, there had been 9.7 million vehicles with personalized vanity license plates, in North America, which means that almost 3.83% of registered vehicles in the United States had vanity plates on them.

If you are interested in stylish, customized and innovative novelty signs and plates that suits your personality and passion, you can choose from our thousands of themes or create your own custom design for your car, room, dorm or office. Guaranteed, you are never going to part with it.