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Halo Lit Signs
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- Mounts on almost any wallBrick, concrete, stucco, drywall, wood slat walls and even stone.
- Indoors and outdoorsStorefronts, offices, lobbies, cafes, salons and homes, with waterproof LEDs outdoors.
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Turn your logo into a lit sign for a reception wall or storefront, from fine details and minimum stroke widths to colors and finishes.
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Prices start at US$50. Every sign is custom made and its details set the price, so we quote each sign individually.
Send us your design through our free quote form and we will reply with a price within one working day.
We suggest confirming your order at least five weeks before you need your sign. Five weeks covers the steps below, plus time for questions, payment and your approval of the drawings and test photos. It doesn't include time for a permit or homeowners association (HOA) approval, so allow extra time if you need one.
In busy seasons, allow six weeks or more. That means the weeks before Christmas and before China's National Day holiday, which starts on October 1 and usually lasts about a week. It also means the weeks before Chinese New Year, which falls in January or February and is followed by a break of about two weeks.
Your quote gives an estimated total lead time. As a guide:
- Shop drawings: about 3 working days after payment
- Production: about 15 working days after you approve the drawings for most standard orders, plus about 3 working days for plated, vintage or wood grain finishes
- DHL door-to-door delivery: about a week to most areas
We ship nearly every sign within the production time we quote. Delays can happen when part of the job goes to a partner factory, for example custom LEDs, 3D printing or plating.
Once your sign leaves us, delivery depends on the courier and on customs, including random inspections, which are beyond our control.
In our busy season, from late September to early January, confirming your order one day earlier can get your sign shipped about three days sooner.
We are a sign manufacturer in China, with our office in Pudong, Shanghai. We ship our custom signs to customers all over the world by DHL, door to door, and most areas receive them in about a week.
Yes. Our signs are UL Listed and carry UL labels.
Outdoor signs have weep holes in every separate piece, and the UL label goes somewhere discreet, by default on top of the letter shell.
Indoor signs have no weep holes by default, and we suggest putting the UL label on the back panel for a cleaner look. Please check with your property manager before you order that this is acceptable. Show them the UL labels before installation too, because labels on the back panel can't be seen once the sign is on the wall.
Yes. Changing sizes, materials, colors or construction after you approve the shop drawings means a new quote and new drawings. Once production has started, you also pay for the work already done, such as materials and labor. If your city, town or HOA asks for changes during approval, we revise the drawings and refund or charge the price difference. Major redesigns may carry an extra drawing fee.
About 3 working days after payment, you receive shop drawings that show the sizes, construction, materials and finish, the mounting and wiring positions, the LEDs and the color-match values. Production starts only after you approve them.
When your sign is finished, we send you photos and ship it only after you confirm.
It depends on where the sign goes, so check before you order. For a business sign outdoors, ask your landlord or property manager first, then your city or town about the sign permit. A lit sign usually needs an electrical permit too. For a business sign indoors, ask your landlord or property manager. For a home, ask your homeowners association (HOA), or your city or town if there is no HOA. Inside a home, ask an electrician how much power the circuit can supply. If you apply for a permit, you will most likely need our shop drawings.
Yes. The sample cases above show some of them, and our sample cases gallery has many more, grouped by sign model, each with notes on how it was made.
You decide what the sign shows and where it goes: the artwork, the size, the location, the finish and the look you want. We set the technical defaults, such as 12 V DC LEDs, and choose a waterproof rating for outdoor LEDs that suits the site.
The LED model, the LED layout and the letter depth are settled in the shop drawings, once we have your vector file. If you need a certain depth, tell us, and we will do our best to meet it.
Yes. We make non-lit 3D letters too, and we can quote them together with your halo lit sign.
Yes. Many customers now start with an AI image tool, but AI designs often can't be built exactly as shown.
Send us the AI rendering, which shows the look you want, and ask the AI, in the same chat, to also create a flat version of the design with all rendering effects removed. Black and white is fine. Make it as high-resolution as possible.
We will check what can be built from the flat artwork and the rendering, and give you a fair quote. The finished sign usually differs a little from the AI rendering, because we are making a real sign, not a computer image.
Every sign is custom made, and small details change the cost. Only a vector file, such as AI, CDR or EPS, shows us every detail of your design.
To learn more, see vector graphics on Wikipedia.
We adjust designs so they can be built, for example by changing letter sizes or stroke widths.
We don't offer full design services unless the wording, overall size and font are already decided. Design takes a lot of back-and-forth, and the time difference with China slows it down, so we suggest working with a designer in your area.
Any font you like, as long as it can be built as a sign. Every sign is custom made, so there is no list of standard fonts, and serif, sans serif and script fonts can all be made.
Some designs can't be built as they are. Strokes may be too thin, letters too small, or all the letters joined into one piece too large to ship. If your design has a problem like this, we tell you and suggest a change, and you decide whether to make it.
Local rules may also limit the font. For a business sign, check with your landlord or property manager and your city or town. For a home sign, check with your homeowners association (HOA), or your city or town if there is no HOA.
About 100 to 120 times the letter height. As a rule of thumb, allow 1 inch (25 mm) of letter height for every 10 feet (3 m) of viewing distance. That means 24-inch (610 mm) letters can be read from about 200 to 240 feet (61 to 73 m).
Font, contrast and light color also make a difference. Our guide to halo lit letters explains how to size and design letters that read well.
Yes. Send us the color number from a Pantone, RAL, Sherwin-Williams or Matthews Paint chart, and we mix the paint to match.
Any color on these charts can be mixed, fluorescent colors included. Each comes in a gloss, semi-gloss or matte (satin) sheen.
Yes. We can read screen color codes, such as hex codes, with professional color software. We still suggest asking your designer for the matching Pantone or RAL number.
No. An old sign has faded and changed color over the years, so a sample from it won't show the original color. Send us the original color number instead.
Yes. We can make a color sample and ship it to you. It's charged at the cost of making it plus shipping.
Light color is described by color temperature. We offer three whites: white at about 6000K, warm white at about 4000K and soft white at about 3000K, the warmest of the three.
The light colors we offer are these three whites, red, yellow, blue, green, pink and purple, plus controllable RGB and WRGB. If you have special lighting requirements, tell us and we will do our best to meet them. Custom LEDs for this may carry a minimum order quantity (MOQ) charge. The chart below shows how light color changes with color temperature.
About 3,000 lux, measured in our workshop with a light meter held against the light-emitting surface of a finished sign. In theory, that equals roughly 955 cd/m². The halo you see on the wall is dimmer than this, and how bright it looks depends on how much light the wall reflects.
Yes. We supply a remote that dims the light smoothly from 0 to 100%. RGB and WRGB signs work by remote too. Their controller box also reads an SD card with lighting programs, such as the order the letters light up or how fast they flash.
You can write your own program, or we can load one for you before shipping.
No. Any flicker in our LEDs is far faster than ordinary video frame rates, so photos and video show a steady light. We have never had a complaint about flicker.
Yes. Colored LEDs give a colored halo, and RGB or WRGB LEDs can change color. LED light can't be matched to a Pantone or other color code, though, so expect a close shade rather than an exact color.
That depends on your system, so we confirm it before production. Send us your vector file, sizes, light color, sign model and installation site, plus the manual for your controller or smart home system. We then check whether we can use suitable electrical parts and supply matching signal wires.
Full payment before production, by PayPal invoice only. You can pay the invoice from your PayPal balance, a bank account or a credit card through PayPal.
PayPal fees are paid by the buyer, because our quote covers only the sign and its delivery.
Yes. You can pay our PayPal invoice with a credit card.
We never ask for your card details. We send you a PayPal invoice, and you pay it with your card inside PayPal, so your card information is never shared with us.
Signing up for PayPal is free, and PayPal's own customer service can help you with it. Because PayPal involves your personal and financial information, please ask PayPal directly about any questions you have while signing up or paying. You'll find their contact link at the bottom of the PayPal home page.
If you ship by DHL, you will also pay import duties. They are charged by your local customs at rates set by your country, so they are not part of our production and shipping costs, and you pay them yourself. You also cover the PayPal transaction fee.
The HS code for LED halo lit signs is 9405.61. Your local customs office can tell you the exact duty rate.
In some areas, yes. DDP (delivered duty paid) isn't available everywhere, but we can arrange it for parts of the United States and Canada.
DDP takes longer than DHL, but you don't pay import duties yourself: the freight forwarder clears customs and pays the duties, and you wait for your sign at home.
It depends on how far the work has gone. Once we have sent your shop drawings, we keep a shop drawing fee of at least US$500. The same applies if your city or town refuses the permit. Once production has started, you also pay for the materials and labor already used. We refund the rest through PayPal, based on the amount we received after PayPal's fees.
Yes. If you need one, we send a free mock-up image with your quote. 3D renderings are available for a design fee.
Sometimes, when we can do it without risking quality or delaying other customers' orders. We never hold an order back. Production starts as soon as you approve the drawings, and we finish each order as quickly as its quality allows. Most standard orders take about 15 working days from approval.
If you have a fixed date, tell us when you place your order, not after production has started. Our sales team will check with our production manager and let you know whether we can meet it.
We don't charge a rush fee, because we never move another customer's order back to make room. Shipping time is outside our control.
Plating adds a thin metal coating to stainless steel, which gives it colors such as gold, rose gold, brass, copper, bronze or titanium. It can even recreate the look of vintage bronze, vintage copper or vintage brass. A partner factory plates our signs by chemical or vacuum plating, depending on the sign, and this adds about 3 working days.
Please note:
- Color can vary slightly from batch to batch, even with the same equipment and process.
- Over time, the plated layer is likely to oxidize, and its color may change somewhat.
- We don't recommend plating for signs near the sea, because salt corrodes the plated layer.
See every plated color in our finish gallery.
Yes, if the shell or face is aluminum. Anodizing works only on aluminum, not on stainless steel or acrylic. We use aluminum mainly for large halo lit signs, where it keeps the weight down, and sometimes for Side-Lit Signs.
Yes, slowly. UV light makes all paint fade outdoors over the years. That is why we finish outdoor signs only in UV-resistant paints and powder coatings. They can't stop the fading, but they slow it down.
Every sign ships with a full-size (1:1) mounting template, stud bolts, a wiring diagram, installation instructions and the power supply. Signs that mount off the wall also come with tube spacers. Nuts and washers come with signs for walls you can reach from behind, where they secure the stud bolts.
Use the template to mark and drill the holes for the stud bolts and wires, then fix each piece to the wall.
We recommend a professional sign installer for every lit sign. Only professional installation makes sure the sign looks right, works safely and has a long service life. For the electrical connections, see our wiring diagram.
Almost anywhere, indoors or outdoors: on brick, concrete, stucco, drywall, MDO (medium density overlay) plywood, wood slat walls, stone, marble and even glass. Installation usually means drilling holes in the wall for the wires and stud bolts. A sign can also be mounted on a bracket or backing box and hung from the ceiling on stainless steel chains.
Send us a photo of the spot and we will recommend the right mounting method. For outdoor sites, see our guide to outdoor halo lit signs.
Yes. The simplest way is to make the sign as usual and mount it off the wall on stainless steel tube spacers. The sign itself can also be made curved to match the wall. It then fits the curve more closely and the light looks better, but it costs more.
Yes, but glass is fragile, so we don't drill it for stud bolts or fix signs to it with nuts and washers. Signs on glass are usually glued in place instead. They then have to be light, so they can't be too large.
On ordinary glass, a lit sign's wires always show. The more professional option is conductive glass, coated or treated in a similar way so that the glass itself carries the sign's 12 V DC power. In that case, we deliver the conductive glass and the sign together as one unit.
We are a sign factory in China and can't install signs outside China ourselves.
We suggest finding a local sign installer through a directory such as Yelp. If you can't find one, send us your installation address, and we will ask our partners and long-time customers near you. Their visit may add travel costs on top of the installation fee.
You get our design drawing plus a full-size (1:1) installation drawing, both as a digital file and on paper. Your builder can use them to mark where the stud bolts and wires go through the panel.
Yes, if they can run through the wall or inside it. If they can't, some wiring will show on the wall surface.
We recommend waiting until the sign arrives, because wiring run early often causes problems. If it can't wait, run it only after you approve the shop drawings, at the positions shown in our drawing file.
Leave a spot with good ventilation for the power supply, because it needs to shed heat.
Yes. We use 12 V DC LEDs by default, or 24 V DC LEDs on request. They connect to your building's AC power through a MEAN WELL LPV series power supply, the LPV-60-12 by default.
It accepts 110 to 240 V AC input, which covers 110 to 120 V AC, 60 Hz power.
Yes. Many commercial buildings in the US supply 208 V, 240 V or 277 V at 60 Hz rather than the standard 120 V.
Tell us your site's voltage and frequency when you order, and we will fit a power supply rated for it.
Every sign has a 3-year limited warranty, which covers defects in materials and workmanship. If such a defect makes a part fail within 3 years, we send you a replacement part free of charge and ship it by DHL at our cost. Import duties and the labor to swap the part are not covered.
The warranty doesn't extend to damage from natural disasters such as lightning, floods or storms, to power surges or faulty installation or wiring, or to damage caused by people. For an extra charge, we can extend the warranty to 5 years with Cree-grade LEDs, and we will go over the details with you.
The power supply and any controllers are covered by their makers' own warranties. We will contact those suppliers on your behalf and arrange their warranty service for you, but the shipping and duties for those parts are paid by you.
Yes, but we don't recommend it. The letter shells can be opened to fit new LEDs, yet that takes a trained sign technician, and a shell bent or scratched along the way leaves you worse off than a dim sign.
Our LEDs are rated to stay lit for more than 100,000 hours and dim gradually with use. It takes far longer than our 3-year warranty period before a sign gets too dim for you.
After the warranty, if a letter stops lighting up, we recommend remaking the whole sign rather than replacing that one letter. A new letter would differ from the others in brightness and even in light color, which spoils the look of the whole sign.
Like anything else you own, a halo lit sign keeps serving you well when it gets a little care, and that care is rarely complicated.
Indoors, wipe dust and marks off the surface now and then with a clean, damp, soft cloth.
Outdoors, give any sign you can reach the same gentle wipe. How often depends on how dusty your area is. The point is simply not to let dirt sit on the sign for long.
A sign mounted high on a building is usually out of reach without lifting equipment. There you can either hire a professional cleaning crew or simply leave it be.
Whatever you do, never clean the sign with a cleaner that contains organic solvents.
You are awesome! 5 stars! Great customer service and professional team! Everyone who comes to our office will say "Wow" as soon as they see the new halo lit office signs.
Ryan MackProducerExcellent job. Just as I expected. Beautiful halo effect complementing the mirror-polished stainless steel lettering. It is a splendid piece of artwork! Thank you very much.
Jonathan ChaupinAgencyWe received our sign on time and in a very sturdy manner. There were no imperfections; everything was what we communicated and exceeded expectations. Thank you for making our lobby signage and making it special.
Jamie BaileyMarketerThank you very much for such beautiful and touching LED signage. In fact, this is my first time ordering a sign online, and it's China. To be honest, I was really worried at first until I received the signage as expected. You guys are great.
Kevin LauMarketerA friend introduced me to HaloLitSigns.com and I am very satisfied. Everyone at HaloLitSigns.com was very helpful, from making mock-ups for storefront signs for approval to providing us with the final signage. And the sign is delivered before the scheduled time. I will definitely recommend HaloLitSigns.com to all my friends and look forward to working with them in the future.
Nicole PruittLos AltosAmazing! At first, I was hesitant to place an order online with a company that was in China. They sent me a quote with a mock-up image, explaining every detail. Gave me a completion date and it arrived early. Words cannot express the professionalism, and the end product was exactly what we ordered and wanted. I would definitely recommend them, and I will continue to do all my signage needs with this company. You will not regret it!
Dale ErbManager
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