page_title: Vehicle registration plates of Singapore
section_title: Current scheme
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle registration plates of Singapore / Current scheme
caption_attribution_description: English: A Singaporean white-on-black rear vehicle registration plate on a silver Ford Focus car.
context_page_description: Vehicle registration plates in Singapore are administered by the Land Transport Authority.
context_section_description: In general, every motor vehicle in Singapore has a vehicle registration number. Two colour schemes are in use: the black-on-white (front of the vehicle) and black-on-yellow (rear) scheme, or the popular white-on-black scheme. The number plate has to be made of a reflective plastic or metallic with textured characters which are black (for white-yellow), or white or silver (for black ones). Although no standardised typeface is used, all typefaces are based on the Charles Wright number plate typeface that was and is still used in the UK. Thinner-looking variants are commonly used by SBS Transit buses, taxis and goods vehicles. Rarely, the Arial Bold or FE-Schrift font used in Germany can be seen – though the use of these fonts is prohibited by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). Also worthy of note is that if the vehicle licence plate is blocked by bicycles or has a bicycle rack attached at the rear of a vehicle, or any other fittings such as wedding decorations that obstructs the view of the number plate, motorists must hang an additional licence plate on the vehicle.
  A typical vehicle registration number comes in the format Sxx #### y:
  S – Vehicle class ("S", with some exceptions, stands for a private vehicle since 1984)
  x – Alphabetical series ("I" and "O" are not used to avoid confusion with "1" and "0")
  #### – Numerical series (from 1 to 9999, without leading zeroes)
  y – Checksum letter ("F", "I", "N", "O", "Q", "V" and "W" are never used as checksum letters; absent on special government vehicle plates and events vehicle plates)
caption: A white on black number plate scheme
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