OK, this is just wrong on so many levels. The Associated Press pointed out in a story published today in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that there’s a glaring grammatical error (the missing hyphen in “Show-Me”) and the fact that the Missouri State Department of Revenue refuses to fix it because “that’s how the plate looked when it won an online contest last year” (I suppose if the state’s name had been misspelled that they would have also left that alone, too), but this is all beside the point of the even more glaring fact that this is the ugliest, most embarrassing “design” (if you dare to even call it that) of a license plate in history! From the ugly color gradient to the uninspiring font usage to the boring state outline to the tiny image of the bluebird stuck way down at the bottom… it’s worse than bad. It’s horrible! Maybe if enough of us let them know how much it sucks, they’ll change it? I know, I know… don’t hold your breath.

Way to go, MO!