Custom Lighted Signs — Built & Shipped Nationwide
Lighted Signs
Made to Last. Wired to Impress.
The Courthouse Club sign above is ours — open-face channel letters with LED acrylic neon, built and shipped from our shop. We fabricate custom lighted signs for lobbies, storefronts, and exterior facades. UL-certified electrical, 10-year warranty on letter materials, most orders ship in 16–20 business days.
Call us: 816-800-9444
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How It Works
Built to Spec, Wired to Last
Every custom lighted sign we build ships fully UL-certified, so your electrician and local inspector have nothing to flag. The components inside meet the same standards your building already requires.
In the box: lead wires, power supplies, wiring diagrams, and mounting hardware. You're not sourcing parts separately or guessing at the install.
Warranty In writing: a 10-year warranty on the letter materials and a 3-year warranty on the LEDs and power supplies, on our fabricated metal illuminated signs. Those aren't marketing numbers.
Lighted Sign Types
Custom Lighted Signs — Built for How You'll Use Them
Four distinct illuminated sign formats, each with different light sources, profiles, and install contexts. Pick the one that fits your space — or call us and we'll tell you which one we'd choose.
Push-Through Acrylic Signs
The face is a solid panel — aluminum or steel — with acrylic letters or shapes routed clean through it. The acrylic protrudes from the cabinet and glows outward when lit. The result is crisp, high-contrast letterforms that hold up in direct sun without washing out. A reliable choice for exterior storefronts where individual channel letters would be too fussy to install. Ships in 16–20 business days.
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Lighted Cabinet Signs
A cabinet sign puts the light source inside an aluminum or steel enclosure with a translucent face — the whole panel illuminates evenly, logos and all. These are our go-to recommendation when a design has fine detail or a dense layout that would be difficult to break into individual letters.
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LED Neon & Neon Channel Letters
LED neon bends into any shape — script, icons, abstract forms — without the fragility or running costs of glass neon. Neon Channel letters are individually fabricated, and then the Acrylic Neon is placed inside for a cool retro neon channel letter look.
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Marquee & Exposed-Bulb Letters
Exposed-bulb marquee letters put the light source on the face — no diffuser panel, no hidden LEDs. The bulbs are the aesthetic. Best for entertainment venues, restaurants, and retail where an industrial or vintage look is part of the brand identity. We fabricate these in the same shop as everything else, so the letter bodies and the bulb sockets are spec'd together rather than bought in.
Get a Marquee Sign QuoteCabinet, push-through, neon, or marquee?
| Format | How It's Built | Where the Light Sits | Ships In | Best For |
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| Push-ThroughAcrylic · Routed metal face | Your letterforms are routed out of a single sheet of aluminum or steel, then acrylic is pushed through from behind so it sits slightly proud of the face. | Behind the face, glowing out through each cutout | 16–20 business days |
Our Volume Build Exterior storefronts. Crisp, high-contrast letterforms that hold up in direct sun, where individual channel letters would be fussy to install. |
| Lighted CabinetAluminum or steel enclosure | An enclosure with a translucent face. The whole panel illuminates evenly — logos, fine detail and all — rather than lighting letter by letter. | Inside the cabinet, diffused across the panel | 16–20 business days |
Most Detail Designs that would be difficult to break into separate letters. Dense layouts, tight lockups, logos with fine internal detail. |
| Neon Channel LettersLED neon · Open-face channel | LED neon mounted on the face of an open-face channel letter, fabricated in our shop. The neon look without the gas, the fragility, or the maintenance. | On the letter face, visible as a lit line | 16–20 business days |
Most Detail Script, icons, and shapes that need to bend. Retail interiors and storefronts where the linework is the design. |
| Marquee / Exposed BulbBulbs on the letter face | Bulbs mounted directly on the letter face with no diffuser over them. A specialty build — real capability, low production volume. | On the letter face, visible as points | 16–20 business days |
Specialty Entertainment, restaurant, and retail character work where the warmth and the theatricality are the whole point. |
Best for: exterior storefronts — crisp letterforms that hold up in direct sun.
Best for: designs that would be difficult to break into separate letters.
Best for: script, icons, and shapes that need to bend.
Best for: entertainment, restaurant, and retail character work.
How a push-through sign is actually built
Push-through is the format we make more of than anything else on this page, and the one buyers have the hardest time picturing from a finished photo. It is not letters stuck to a panel — your artwork is cut out of the panel, and acrylic fills the openings. These four shots are the same sign, a brushed black round cabinet for Drip, from bare metal to the wall it hangs on. It is also a good example of how we build lighted logo signs, where the artwork is a mark rather than a line of type.
Your artwork is routed out of a single sheet of aluminum or stainless. One pass, so every letter and counter sits in exact register with the next — nothing to align on site, nothing to space by eye.
The same file drives a second cut, this time through solid acrylic. Each piece is machined to match its own opening — that tolerance is the difference between an edge that looks intentional and one that looks gapped.
Every piece is dry-fit by hand before anything is bonded or sealed. The acrylic sits slightly proud of the face, and that small stand-off is what gives push-through its dimension in daylight — before a single LED is switched on.
LEDs, lead wires, power supplies and a wiring diagram go in before it ships, UL-certified end to end. Drip went edge-lit with a halo behind the cabinet — one piece to hang, one thing to level.
With individual channel letters, someone has to template the wall, mark it, and hang each letter true. With push-through, the router set the spacing, not a chalk line. There is one thing to lift and one thing to level, and nothing that can drift a quarter inch across twelve feet of wall. On a busy storefront sign that is the difference between an afternoon and a day.
Three ways to finish the face
The exposed acrylic edge always glows — that is what push-through is. What you choose is how much light comes through the front, and that single decision changes the whole character of the sign.
White acrylic on the face and the edge. The brightest option we build and the most visible after dark — the default when the sign has to carry across a parking lot.
Translucent high-performance vinyl or paint over the acrylic face. The face glows in your brand color while the edges stay white, or a second color if you want the outline to read separately.
A metal or painted face matched to the cabinet, applied over the acrylic. It blocks light from the front and forces it out the edges only, so the letters read as floating metal. Our most-requested look for interior signs and lobbies.
Six cabinet finishes
We don't use thin sheet metal. Every cabinet is fabricated from architectural-grade aluminum or stainless steel, built to take years of weather without warping. The finish you pick also decides what the routed edge looks like: brushed grain absorbs the cut, mirror polish shows it as a bright outline.
Lighting direction & color
Two separate decisions. Direction changes how the cabinet is built, so pick it first. Color is the easier call and can change late. These three are the looks that genuinely read differently in a photograph — bright white and warm white differ in warmth rather than shape, so they're spec'd below rather than shown as their own cards.
Light comes out of the letter edges and nowhere else. Crisp and architectural, and the right call when the wall behind is already busy, already lit, or too close to take a halo cleanly.
The edges light and the cabinet also washes the wall behind it, which lifts the whole sign off the surface. What Drip chose — see Step 04 above — and the more dramatic of the two on a plain wall.
A fixed color LED, or programmable RGB set by controller for an additional charge. Worth it when the sign has to change for seasons or campaigns rather than sit on one color for ten years.
Our Work
Push-Through Signs We've Built
Four recent push-through installs — storefronts, lobbies, and building facades. Every one shipped as a single piece, so there was one thing to hang and one thing to level.
LED acrylic neon, and how it gets mounted
The glowing line in these letters is solid acrylic — a rounded, polished profile that carries the light inside the material itself. It reads like a lit glass tube from a few feet away, and it holds a crisp, even line where softer materials go blobby around a tight curve.
It is not silicone flex neon, the soft rope you see on consumer signs, and we bend and finish it in our own shop rather than brokering it out. One decision shapes a neon sign more than any other: what it gets mounted to.
Three ways to mount it
Same letter, same profile, three very different signs. The photos are the same R built all three ways, so you can see what actually changes.
The profile sits inside a fabricated metal channel letter with an open face. You get the neon line plus a real metal letter body behind it, and the returns give the sign depth and a shadow line. The build most commercial customers land on.
A clear panel cut to follow the outline of your artwork, with a margin around the profile. On a light wall the backing all but disappears and the line looks like it is floating. The usual pick for script and logos with counters that need holding together.
A thin backer cut to the letter shape and nothing beyond it, hung flush. From a few feet away you see the letter and nothing holding it. The cleanest of the three, and the one that wants the flattest wall.
Where the power comes out is set when the profile is cut and the backing is machined — it cannot be moved later without rebuilding the piece. Tell us which side your outlet is on and roughly how far away it sits, and we will build the exit to match. It is the single most common thing customers wish they had mentioned up front.
Eleven colors, and the specs behind them
The color lives in the acrylic rather than painted on top of it, so it does not fade off the surface — and the profile shows its own color switched off, which means the sign still reads during the day. Hover any swatch for its name.
Built to Code. Built to Last.
Electrical Specs You Can Actually Count On
Every lighted sign we ship is UL-Certified — components, power supplies, wiring diagrams, and mounting hardware included. Here's what that means in practice.
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UL-Certified, End to End
Every illuminated sign we build ships with UL-listed components, lead wires, power supplies, and a wiring diagram — nothing sourced separately on your end. UL certification means faster permitting and cleaner inspections. Our standard 12V system covers most installs; we move to 24V for longer wire runs or more complex layouts.
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10-Year Letters, Backed in Writing
Outdoor lighted signs take the hardest abuse — UV, rain, and freeze-thaw cycles. Every letter perimeter is sealed before the cabinet closes, and the cabinet itself is architectural-grade aluminum or stainless that will not warp. We recommend 316 stainless for coastal installs and painted aluminum inland. The same construction goes into our metal letters for outdoor signs on building facades.
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Six Depths. One Power Connection.
Fabricated metal letters run up to 6 inches deep and size out from 3 inches to over 100 inches — halo-lit, face-lit, or both. LED options include bright white, warm white, and RGB programmable. Everything wires to standard 120V building power.
Size It Right
How Big Should Your Lighted Sign Be?
Rule of thumb: about 1 inch of letter height for every 10 feet of viewing distance — and because these are illuminated signs, the same height keeps reading after dark, when an unlit letter disappears. Our Letter Visibility Chart does the math — heights matched to viewing distance, by letter style
Our Work
Neon, Marquee & Lighted Letters We've Built
Every custom illuminated sign in this gallery ships from our shop — LED neon, halo-lit logos, marquee style lettering, and more.
PRICING REFERENCE
What Do Custom Illuminated Signs Cost?
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6″ Tall
From
$99
/character
Lobby – Reception – Wayfinding
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12″ Tall
From
$198
/character
Entrance – Suite Door – Offices
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18″ Tall
From
$297
/character
High-Visibility – Monument – Facade
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24″ Tall
From
$389
/character
High-Vis – Large Monument/Facade
What affects the final price?
Two things move the number most: letter height and font complexity. Tight serifs and thin strokes take more fabrication time than clean sans faces. Finish choice adds cost — painted, brushed metal, or 316 stainless for coastal installs — and front-lit versus halo-lit changes both the LED layout and the return depth.
* Prices shown are per character and vary by height, font, finish, and lighting type. Most lighted signs ship in 16–20 business days. Payment upfront on standard orders; 50/50 payment available on orders over $1,500.
Quoted Today, In Production This Week
We quote in 24 hours and ship most lighted signs in 16–20 business days, anywhere in the country. No site visit, no appointment, no waiting on a rep's calendar.
How It Works
Quote to Shipped — Same Week You Decide
No appointments. No waiting for a rep to visit your space. Most custom lighted signs are out the door in 16–20 business days.
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Submit Your Quote Request
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Approve the Proof & Pay
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Install It Yourself
TESTIMONIALS
Lighted signs we built, in their words
Common Questions
Common Questions About Custom Illuminated Signs
What types of lighted signs do you make?
We build four formats of illuminated sign: push-through, where acrylic characters are pressed through a routed metal face; lighted cabinets, where a translucent face lights evenly across the whole panel; neon channel letters, with LED acrylic neon on an open-face letter body; and marquee lettering with exposed bulbs. The comparison table above puts them side by side — or tell us the wall and we'll tell you which one fits.
How long does it take to get a custom lighted sign?
Most custom lighted signs ship in 16–20 business days, whichever of the four formats you order. Every sign is made to order — nothing ships from inventory. Each piece moves through art review, file prep, fabrication, finishing, paint, and a quality check before it leaves. We don't offer rush orders as a standard option because they push other customers' jobs back in line. If you have a firm deadline, tell us upfront during quoting and we'll do what we can on the proof and setup side.
What warranty do lighted signs come with?
We back our lighted signs with a 10-year warranty on the letter materials and cans, and a 3-year warranty on LEDs and power supplies. The electrical components are the consumable part of any sign — LEDs and drivers do eventually cycle out, which is why they carry a separate term. The fabricated metal itself — bent, welded, finished from sheet stock — is built to outlast the warranty by a wide margin. If you're near the coast, ask us about 316 stainless; it holds up where standard alloys corrode.
Do you install the sign once it ships?
We don't offer in-house installation. Most customers handle it themselves — every order ships with a full-size paper template, hardware, and straightforward mounting instructions. A drill, a level, and about an hour covers most lobby or storefront installs. For larger or more complex outdoor lighted signs, we can refer a local installer; billing goes directly between you and them at no markup from us.
Can you match an existing sign or a specific logo?
Usually yes. Send us a vector file — .AI, .EPS, or print-ready PDF — and we can match your font and logo exactly. For color matching, a Pantone number or physical reference sample gives us the cleanest result. If your file isn't in vector format, we can typically convert it for $20–$40. For reorders, we often have your original file on record, which makes turnaround faster and keeps everything consistent across locations.
What if my sign arrives damaged?
Contact us within 5 business days of delivery and send photos — including any damage to the outer packaging. We'll file the shipping claim and manage repair or replacement. The most important thing is acting quickly and photographing everything on arrival before the packaging is discarded. Damage claims submitted outside that window are harder to resolve, so don't sit on it.
Why buy from a specialist instead of a local sign shop?
We specialize in fabricated dimensional and lighted signage — it's not a secondary service we offer between vinyl wraps and installs. That focus, combined with manufacturing scale, is what lets us price fabricated signage the way we do. A well-built custom lighted sign priced right is the goal every time — not the cheapest sign, but the best value for something meant to represent your business for years.
What payment options do you accept?
Standard orders are paid upfront. For orders over $1,500, we offer a 50/50 split — 50% to start production, 50% before the sign ships. Government and military customers can pay by purchase order. We also offer material samples: order up to three for $20 with a prepaid return label. The full $20 credits toward your order when you buy, or $10 is refunded if you return the samples without ordering.
Let's Build Yours
Ready for a Lighted Sign That Works Every Hour You're Open?
We back every illuminated sign with a 10-year warranty on letter materials and 3 years on LEDs and power supplies — because we build them to last, not to be replaced. Call or start a quote online.
Call us: 816-800-9444
