Channel letters are illuminated letter signs that are popular among businesses looking to make a bold brand statement. Customizable, these illuminated letter signs allow businesses to choose font styles and illumination options to match their logos or wordmarks.
These signs are typically supported by raceways or custom-built wireways to hide power supplies and wiring from view, with channel letter bending machines revolutionizing how these signs are created.
Cost
When shopping for a Channel Letter Sign, it’s essential to understand their cost. Use the Channel Letter Price Calculator to assess all of your options and find one within your budget. Enter LED lights per letter into the calculator followed by how many letters there are before determining LED light price per letter ($/led).
Non-illuminated channel letters are an ideal choice for businesses that do not require nighttime visibility, featuring a face, trim cap and aluminum returns. Reverse/halo lit signs offer more sophistication with metal back and acrylic front emitting light from behind for a halo effect at night.
Bending machines provide the most cost-effective means of creating channel letters, with machines like Accu-Bend ACE being particularly efficient at doing this job. By cutting labor intensive hand fabrication by up to 75% and eliminating wasteful material waste, this machine makes channel letter fabrication affordable for any shop.
Styles
Channel letter signage offers an abundance of information about a company in an instant, providing enormous bang for the buck and leaving an impactful first impression with everyone who sees it. Commonly illuminated but not required, channel letter exterior signs have helped businesses define their identities and build brand recognition from afar.
Fabricating signs is a highly versatile process, which allows them to take almost any shape or form you can imagine. Made of aluminum to prevent corrosion, they’re an excellent option for businesses as they offer great visibility while being relatively affordable with only minimal upkeep required.
There are various styles of channel letters, with some of the more popular options including halo-lit, open face and front and rear lit combinations being halo-lit and front/rear lit combination designs. Halo-lit designs utilize transparent acrylic in the back which casts a lighted effect around each letter – often known as back-lit designs for dramatic architectural looks. Open face designs feature no transparent acrylic back so as to maintain their architectural appearance while front/rear-lit combinations may include both front-lit letters as well as front/rear lit combination designs.
Materials
An attractive channel letter sign can be an effective and cost-efficient way to promote your business. Customizable to match your company logo, channel letter signs can draw customers who may otherwise have gone elsewhere without realizing where to find you! Choose from various fonts and sizes to suit any space; lighting options may also be available.
These signs are typically constructed of heavy-duty metal that can withstand adverse weather and wear-and-tear, making them an excellent choice for businesses with a high traffic volume. Installation options range from buildings or parking garages, and fabrication materials can include aluminum and stainless steel.
Storefront signs, strip mall displays and public buildings commonly utilize exterior LED and neon tubing signs as exterior signage; they’re also frequently found fabricated into monuments for other applications. Furthermore, LED and neon tubes lighting systems allow these displays to illuminate using different shapes and sizes of bulbs – offering endless design possibilities!
Installation
Channel letter signs are popular among businesses and homeowners alike, for their ease of installation and high visual impact on storefronts or businesses. Customizable to match your company brand and colors, raceway mounting, direct mounting and backer mount are among several installation methods – it all depends on where the sign will go in relation to available space.
Non-illuminated Channel Letters are timeless classic dimensional letters made of laser cut acrylic that provide an exceptional fit and finish, ideal for use on buildings where lighting laws prohibit illuminated signage or when creating more dramatic architectural looks.
Illuminated Channel Letters are made from aluminum pan enclosures fabricated into the shape of letters and covered with plastic mold faces shaped into flat, spherical or prismatic forms. Preinstalled LED lights come equipped with an easy plug-and-play power delivery system called EZLit that anyone can legally install, making this weatherproof product legally compliant and legal to operate.
