Custom LED Lightbox Sign, Cabinet Sign, Single or Double Sided

A lightbox sign, also called a cabinet sign, is a metal cabinet with a translucent face printed with your artwork and LEDs inside that light the whole face evenly. It is the simplest way to put a full-color logo, a name and a phone number, or a short list of services on a wall and have all of it read clearly at night. You may also see it called a light box, a box sign or an illuminated cabinet.

We build each cabinet to the size you need. Recent builds include an indoor single-sided box 24.5 x 37 in and outdoor cabinets 98 x 15 in and 120 x 48 in. You choose:

• Indoor or outdoor. Indoor boxes plug in through a 12 V adapter. Outdoor cabinets are weather-sealed, use IP65-rated LED modules and a hard-wired outdoor power supply that a licensed electrician connects.
• Single or double sided. A single-sided box sits flat on a wall. A double-sided box hangs, projects from a wall or stands on a post, so it reads from both directions.
• Wall, hanging or post mount.

The LEDs run on 12 V DC, and the power supply and LED modules are UL-listed components. Because the face is a separate part of the cabinet, it can be changed later when your logo, hours or services change, without replacing the box or the lighting.

Ordering works the same way as for our letters. Send your artwork and the size of the wall or the space you want to fill. We email a free drawing that shows the box to scale, a lit preview and the exact price, and nothing is built until you approve it. If you want a rough number first, the price estimator gives a range by width and height.

Design the face for night as well as day. A face that is mostly white glows as one bright panel after dark, while a darker or colored background with light lettering makes the words stand out with less glare. The lit preview on your drawing shows how it will read at night.

Installation, the sign permit and the electrician who connects an outdoor cabinet are not included. Cities limit how much sign area each storefront may have, so check your allowance before you settle on a size.

Start with where the box goes. Inside a shop window or on an interior wall, an indoor plug-in box is enough. On the outside of the building, choose the outdoor cabinet and plan for an electrician to connect it.

Then count the faces. A box flat on the wall needs one face. A sign that sticks out from the wall, hangs under a canopy or stands on a post needs two, so people coming from both directions can read it. For a small sign that projects over a sidewalk, look at the blade sign too.

For the size, measure the clear space on the wall and leave a margin around the box. Keep the artwork short: a logo and a few words read better from the street than a full paragraph. Send your artwork (vector files are best) and a photo of the wall with a tape measure in view.