• Lightbox text

    Posted by Terry Bull on 17 February 2006 at 23:45

    Ive got to strip and reletter a couple of light boxes currently fitted with with
    opal panels
    im going to cover in translucent yellow, cutting out areas of text for green
    and then drop trans green into it
    my question is how much overlap would you add to the text to ensure no
    white shows
    Terry

    David Rogers replied 19 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    17 February 2006 at 23:47

    depends on how well you can line it up mate.
    1mm outline/round , delete inline and it gives you 2mm to play with, thats about the amount i do.

  • Terry Bull

    Member
    18 February 2006 at 16:42

    Thanks Rob i’ll do that

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    18 February 2006 at 18:42

    terry, mean to mention, i guess it depends also on the hight of your text. if something like a large 12inch letter ide use 2mm all around. like i said, its how accurate you are able to line it up. the more outline the easier obviously, but the downside is you have a little dark outline with the overlap. that doesnt geet seen way up on a shop fascia though, but would it its an eyelevel sign or the like… sorry if this is starting to confuse things 😕 :lol1:

    the one thing to remember is not to have no “real” overlap, a little shaded overlap is better than a crack of white showing/glowing around one side of a letter.

  • David Rogers

    Member
    18 February 2006 at 20:35

    Yeh, with Rob on the variable overlap depending on size.
    The other alternative is to make a feature of the gap & have a nice even white halo round the text in a size to suit.

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