Backlit Office Signs

• Helps draw atten­tion to your sign
• Increas­es visibility
• Increas­es impact
• Makes view­ing the sign more memorable

While back­light­ing is a great way to help your sign stand out from the wall, espe­cial­ly in poor­ly lit areas, only cer­tain signs with large enough let­ters or bold font may apply for illu­mi­na­tion. Illu­mi­nat­ed let­ters or sym­bols must allow enough space on the back to hide ¹⁄₂″ wide LED strips with­out run­ning into difficulty.

We most com­mon­ly use back­light­ing with flat cut dimen­sion­al mate­ri­als. A few oth­er light­ed sign options include:

• Back­lit Met­al Chan­nel letters
• Face-lit Met­al Chan­nel letters
• Acrylic Chan­nel Letters
• Frost­ed Illu­mi­nat­ed Let­ters with back­ing pan­el or box

Back­light­ing acrylic sign let­ters cre­ates a ​“wow” fac­tor, draws atten­tion, and increas­es visu­al impact of wall mount­ed logos for clients vis­it­ing your office space.

Mir­rored signs are excel­lent can­di­dates for back­light­ing. The final result is eye-catch­ing, lux­u­ri­ous, and makes a grand state­ment about your brand. 

Back­light­ing requires a sep­a­rate wire to sup­ply pow­er to each let­ter. This wire is pulled into the wall and con­nect­ed either at the oth­er side of the wall or in the ceil­ing. The wires are rel­a­tive­ly thin and eas­i­ly con­nect­ed to a pow­er adapter. The pow­er adapter is sim­i­lar to a phone charg­er that sim­ply plugs into a reg­u­lar 110v pow­er outlet. 

If drag­ging the cable into the oth­er side of the wall or ceil­ing isn’t pos­si­ble, you can also drag the wire near a sock­et on the same side of the wall. This allows you to hide the cables from run­ning along the wall and clos­er to the pow­er source. Once the indi­vid­ual wires for each let­ter are con­nect­ed togeth­er, there is only one cable left to be plugged into the pow­er adapter to plug it into an outlet. 

Depend­ing on how the wall is struc­tured beneath the dry­wall, drag­ging the cables in this way may or may not be pos­si­ble. It is impor­tant to check with build­ing man­age­ment or the con­struc­tion com­pa­ny that con­struct­ed the space to see what type of struc­ture lies hid­den beneath the dry­wall. This will ensure a smooth final installation.

Anoth­er option, if you would rather not have sep­a­rate wires for each let­ter is to pre-mount the sign to a frost­ed back­ground in which case you can either have a hid­den out­let behind it or you would only have 1 wire to pull as opposed to one for each letter.

The out­let you get needs to be a recessed out­let box so that the adapter can be hid­den in the wall because the sign will not have enough space behind it to fit an adapter if you use a reg­u­lar outlet.

Before ship­ping each cus­tom back­lit sign we ensure that the sign is func­tion­ing and every­thing works cor­rect­ly. Once you receive it we rec­om­mend care­ful­ly tak­ing it out of the box to ensure no dam­age has occurred dur­ing ship­ping or due to mis­han­dling while shipping.

Although Instal­la­tion is easy and straight for­ward with our guid­ance, sup­port and easy to use instal­la­tion hard­ware and mate­ri­als, we do also pro­vide the ser­vice of pro­vid­ing qual­i­fied local sign installers to help you install your sign. We han­dle all the coor­di­na­tion work, includ­ing sched­ul­ing, and going over the details and require­ments of your cus­tom back­lit sign installation.

Many of our clients do opt to install their signs them­selves with great suc­cess. Oth­er­wise hav­ing us pro­vide an instal­la­tion crew for you makes order­ing a back­lit sign even easier.

We make the process quick and easy— from design­ing, and sug­gest­ing mate­r­i­al options to deter­min­ing details for instal­la­tion. Get in touch to help you quote and order your own back­lit office sign!