Unfortunately Simpson college has the license plate with the colors inverted. Red/cardinal background with the yellow/gold lettering.I have black plates. I might consider ISU plates if they flipped the colors, Cardinal main color with Gold lettering, I think I think it would look better.
But I think the regular Iowa plates are god awful too. For some reason the Iowa State patrol says it has to be all white behind the lettering, which is dumb, so many states don't. The one that was made somewhere that was the Iowa Flag was the best. There versions we could vote on were not great, and the one that was chosen is terrible.
Also I don't think they said they have to be white background. They just said it sure would be easier to read plates if there was more contrast between the background and lettering, and we got the monstrosity we have by default now.
Also. A few months ago they made the Iowa Flag version available.