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13 September 2018

What Are Channel Letter Signs?

By Bradd Alan


Light letter signs are popularly known as the channel letter signs and/or back lit letter sign, which are signs that have illuminated Neon. It is one of the popular method of advertisements that most businesses are known to use. Channel letter signs are something that is very often used by business owners to provide essential information about their business to their customers.

Of course there are a lot of benefits of using the channel letters as signage. However, the most important is that they are easily visible even from a great distance and they standout away from your building. These letters are considerably the most popular form of business branding method, which is very often preferred to make the company logos or have standout images among other available sign boards.

The channel letters that are present in the raceway are very easy to install in an advertisement sign that contain these letters mounted individually. Moreover, it is also found that the channel letters are very easy to wire inside a wall, simply because it only requires you to have some wires that you need to push through comparable to others that have several of them.

There are different types of channel letters that you can come across, the companies are generally known to use fabricate aluminium letters to prepare their logos. Aluminium can be used in a variety of ways it increases the field of versatility, combinations and colours and even help you to get new designs.

The channel letters are divided into three parts, the first being the standard letters that are very common among the businesses, which is prepared in the U channel base. Next is the Reverse channel letters that are generally known to have metal faces and has a clear plastic cover. With this type of signs, when they are mounted on the wall they do not touch the wall. They do look very attractive, especially at the night, as they are known to give halo-lit effect. Lastly, you have the open faces channel letters, which has open raw neon that is not covered, which of course makes it more noticeable.

Other type of channel letter sign that you can look for is the open face channel letter sign. These signs too are built in the same way as other standard channel letters signs are built. Even though they can be mounted on the raceway or mount individually on the wall, the open channel letters are not actually open. But you need to understand the fact that they have a clearer face rather than a regular coloured plastic cover.

When a channel letter sign has a clear face, it is likely creates less neon tubing to be visible from the cover. Using this method it becomes easier for the channel letters to be more noticeable even during night time. Chanel letters that have coloured covers are known to overshadow the neon light brightness.

Use of LED channel letters is preferred in most part of the world as they can be customized in different ways, such as aluminium letters, face lighted letters, customized channel letters and so on. Moreover, you also need to know that the LED channel letters are known to consume less amount of electrical energy as compare to any other form of lighting.




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