EXAMPLES

Understanding technical signage terms helps when you’re choosing a lighted sign or graphic.

Neon tubing can be single, double, triple stroke or more.
Lettering for your sign can be script or block letters. Thousands of fonts are available, even neon ones that mimic the look of neon.
We suggest you hire a graphic designer with some experience in signage to design your sign, or work with one of our designers.
Channel letters (dimensional letters) are a popular choice, particularly for larger signs, as they can hold neon inside them and/or away from the wall.
If you want the sign wiring outside the building, we use a box called a raceway.
If it’s an interior neon sign, consider whether you want it directly on the wall, or on a frame. We can even hang neon from the ceiling for a floating effect.

An excellent example of bending double stroke neon is the Abercrombie @ symbol used in their Made in America 2018 wall installation.

Assembling the Abercrombie neon sign

Wall-mounted script neon graces the wall at the Urban Outfitters Gallery in New York City.

Aloft wanted to welcome guests to their stylish circle of bon vivants. Sky Neon created circular sign with custom script lettering in 3000 white neon mounted on rigid background with Plexiglas cover.

Example of double-stroke channel letters on a raceway

Our third Milk Boy sign, at 11th and Chestnut, features double-stroke channel letters mounted on a raceway. The raceway is a metal box that holds the letters and contains the wiring.

Squirrels go nuts for this single-stroke block-letter neon sign with a walnut graphic

Block lettered, all caps single-stroke neon lettering held together in clear glass dead frame and hung from the ceiling in Reading Terminal Market

Sky Neon Signs fabricated this curved aluminum sign with white vinyl lettters and double-stroke neon in a block font. We then secured the 5′ wide sign to an interior ceiling.

Single stroke neon highlights a vinyl digital print background. Sign is mounted on a billboard type of frame.

An open face channel bubble holds double-stroke script neon, mounted on a raceway.

We routed and painted PVC letters for “Get” and “Your” and created double-stroke yellow neon arrow, all mounted on interior tile wall.

The customer supplied this design, fabricated with double-storke Novial Gold neon, mounted on wood and hung on wall.

The classic girl in a martini glass, with a twist, using double-stroke all cap block letters set on a curve. It was then mounted on a clear Plexiglas frame and hung in a window.

Sky Neon renovated the original Divine Lorraine sign with single-stroke neon in aluminum channel letters, then roof-mounted the words an angle iron frame secured to the roof top.

HATS is non-illuminated steel double stroke letters mounted with the subhead “In the Belfry” using vinyl letters, all mounted on a stucco wall

Neon rectangle in an aluminum frame hung on wire hung on wires from the ceiling, Now I know how Michelangelo must have felt in the Sistine Chapel.

Rainbow neon beckons the boys to this Philly tavern on Camac

10-foot stainless steel star back lit with bright white neon really makes it shine

WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?

Examples of Different Sign Types