stainless lettering with blue halo leds advice please

[Katie Asken]

Hi Derek,

The best halo you can achieve is if the background is a matt light colour – looking at the building this seems to be the case, although a tray painted matt white would give the optimum halo.

Halo illuminated signage is meant to look delicate and understated rather than in your face like a face illumination but with the halo being blue rather than white I think this would stand out quite well. You could also oversize your backtrays to create a key line as well as a halo which will give it an extra punch. See picture…

Hopefully this will help 😀

Katie x

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[Martin Pearson]

Brushed rather than polished would help it stand out a bit better during the day especially in the unlikely event that the sun shone on it. :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Derek Heron]

hi kate and martin
thanks for the info
all food for thought
more and more customers asking for this sort of thing
so all info appreciated

derek

[Martin Cole]

quote Derek Heron:

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more and more customers asking for this sort of thing

derek

Your a lucky man Derek, I’m finding them few and far between.

I have done a few stainless on cream with LED and find they look good in daytime aswell

[Robert Lambie]

i like the look of that keyline effect kate, almost looks like a neon band.
i am guessing from the picture this is a polished edge acrylic, looks a nice effect against that dark back.

[Dan Osterbery]

Speak to fabricut, they can make edgelit and backlit stainless letters,and they work really well. the "f" is the example! Goodluck

All the best

Dan

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[Katie Asken]

quote Robert Lambie:

i like the look of that keyline effect kate, almost looks like a neon band.
i am guessing from the picture this is a polished edge acrylic, looks a nice effect against that dark back.

No polished edges Rob, just 4mm opal polycarbonate back tray that is oversized by a few mm rather than sunken.

Katie x

[David Rogers]

quote Katie Waterhouse:

quote Robert Lambie:

i like the look of that keyline effect kate, almost looks like a neon band.
i am guessing from the picture this is a polished edge acrylic, looks a nice effect against that dark back.

No polished edges Rob, just 4mm opal polycarbonate back tray that is oversized by a few mm rather than sunken.

Katie x

Great idea…can see that being offered to a few customers 🙂

[Martin Pearson]

Robert, if you polish the edges you won’t get the same effect, to get that sort of effect the edge needs to be a bit rough but obviously not to rough :lol1: :lol1: