Comments on: Dept. of Bad Taste: TxDot’s New License Plates

By: sadie

sadie — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:51:45 +0000

The new plates will make it easier to copy. Just take a photo of someone’s license plate, print and place on your stolen vehicle.

Seriously the new plates are extremely hard to read compared to the old plates. The font (kerning) is too close making it almost illegible to read especially from a distance.

Perhaps this was the whole idea!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:20:25 +0000

I just got these plates (http://rts.texasonline.state.tx.us/NASApp/txdotrts/SpecialPlateOrderServlet?grpid=60&pltid=115) for my Jetta.

They say “And Justice For All”. Organized by the State Bar of Texas (Texas Young Lawyers) and the $22 goes to assist Texas who couldn’t otherwise afford legal services.

I really like this design and the “State of the Arts” design. Both are clean, crisp, and simple. Especially like the TEXAS in all caps. Very distinctive and commanding, y’know?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:35:08 +0000

The only thing the new design lacks is a myspace.com/TxDOT URL.

By: JM

JM — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:40:17 +0000

I am so upset about these new plates, and got my car registration in the mail saying I need to replace mine. This ugly thing is not going on my car and is making me seriously consider a specialty plate…

Maybe they should have had a contest among elementary students state-wide that would have produced some much better results.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:19:06 +0000

Agree wholeheartedly with all the above. God forbid we should live in a place like, oh, I don’t know, EUROPE, where the government doesn’t require you to carry cheesy state advertising on your vehicle. So here’s the solution: we form a non-profit called “Texans for Good Design” and propose our own specialty plate which is black (since it seems everyone drives a black or gray car these days) with white text, the word TEXAS in white, no slogans, no flags, no stars, nothing else. The process is described here:

http://www.txdot.gov/drivers_vehicles/license_plates/specialty_faqs.htm

How about it Wick? Will you head this up? There are about thirty people here willing to jump in and help.

By: SC

SC — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:29:59 +0000

Once I saw the options available, I desperately tried to get my friends and family to vote on the new design, but alas, none were interested. Now they’re all complaining about how ugly it is (and they’ll get no arguments from me). I’m just saying, there was a much less ugly option available if people would have taken two minutes to visit the site in between Facebooking and Twittering all day.

By: Missy

Missy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:24:59 +0000

I actually sat at a stop light in Arlington and looked around, realizing I was surrounded by these atrocious plates. I didn’t vote in the contest they had because they were all hideous. Can’t they find a designer that will use something other than BRUSH SCRIPT??

I’m still a big fan of the State of the Arts plates. Wish they would have kept the serif font they previously used on it though.

By: Diane Goldstein

Diane Goldstein — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:05:13 +0000

Quit complaining. You can see “Texas” now. As for irony being a subtle instrument, please. This is not the Northeast.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:36:46 +0000

Can I just firebrand the back of my car? That about as Texan as it gets.

By: Spamboy

Spamboy — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:29:39 +0000

@cbs Best plate ever? You’re kidding, right?

@Bethany Did you see this plate? http://www.tressugar.com/988519