🚀 Getting Started
Quick workflowAdd your text → pick a font and LED colour → size and arrange it → Preview → Continue to checkout.
- Add a text: Click ✍ Add Text ▾, type your wording, choose a font and LED colour, then + Add to canvas.
- Add as many as you like: A sign can have several lines or words, each with its own font, colour, size and angle.
- Select it: Click any text on the canvas — every tool for it appears in the right-hand panel.
- Resize: Drag a corner handle, or type an exact letter height in inches in the panel.
- Rotate: Drag the round handle above the text, or use the Rotate slider.
- Check the size: The dashed outline on the canvas is the acrylic board that will be cut — that's what you're charged for.
- Preview: Click 🖼 Preview to see the sign lit up on a wall, and to switch the lights off to see the daytime look.
- Checkout: Click Continue to checkout when you're happy with it.
🔭 Canvas Controls
Zoom
| Action | How |
| Zoom in / out | Scroll the mouse wheel over the canvas — it zooms towards the pointer |
| Zoom in / out (step) | The + and − buttons in the top bar |
| Fit the whole sign | ⟳ Fit — zooms and centres everything you've added |
Pan (move the view)
| Action | How |
| Pan the canvas | Hold Space and drag anywhere |
| Pan (mouse) | Middle-mouse-button drag, or drag the scrollbars at the canvas edges |
On a phone or tablet
| Action | How |
| Move a text | Drag it with one finger |
| Zoom | Pinch with two fingers |
| Pan the canvas | Drag with two fingers |
| Edit a text | Tap it — the tool panel slides up from the bottom. ✕ Done closes it again |
| Reach a tool | The top bar scrolls sideways; menus open as sheets from the bottom of the screen |
Backdrop
| Action | How |
| Change the room | 🛋 Backdrop ▾ — hang your sign in a living room, over a café table, or on a brick wall, so you can see how it will look at home |
| Use a plain colour instead | Same menu, the colour swatch at the bottom |
💡 The room is only a mock-upIt shows in the preview and in the JPEG download. What we make and ship is the sign itself — the furniture and flowers are not part of your order, and the workshop is sent the sign on a plain background.
✍ Working with Texts
| Action | How |
| Add a text | ✍ Add Text ▾ in the top bar |
| Edit the wording | Select it, then type in the Text box in the right panel — or double-click the text on the canvas and type directly |
| Change font | Select it → Font dropdown |
| Change LED colour | Select it → click a colour circle. Every text can be a different colour |
| Set an exact letter height | Select it → Letter height in inches |
| Resize freely | Drag a corner handle. The frame always hugs the letters, so press Enter for a new line rather than trying to narrow it |
| Rotate | Drag the round handle above the text, or use the Rotate slider |
| Move | Drag it, or nudge with the arrow buttons / arrow keys |
| Jump to a text | 📋 Texts ▾ lists everything on the canvas — click a row to select it |
| Duplicate / delete | Buttons at the bottom of the right panel |
💡 TipOverlap and rotate freely — the acrylic board is cut around whatever you build.
💰 How the size and price work
Your sign is LED tubing on 3mm clear acrylic,
cut to follow the shape of your letters with a
3mm clear edge — the glassy
outline you can see round them on the canvas. That piece is cut out of a rectangular sheet and the
offcuts can't be reused, so what you're charged for is the sheet: your letters plus
1″ of handling room all round,
marked by the corner ticks on the canvas.
| Reading | What it means |
| Sign board size | Width × height of the sheet your sign is cut from, marked by the corner ticks, in feet and inches |
| Acrylic edge | The clear acrylic left around the letters themselves — the outline you can see on the canvas |
| Area | The sheet's area in square feet — what the price is calculated from |
| Price | Area × the shop's per-square-foot rate. Packaging and shipping are added at checkout |
How small can it go?There's no minimum order size — a small sign simply costs what its area comes to. What is fixed is the letter height: anything under the shop's minimum can't be bent in neon, so texts stop shrinking there and checkout waits until they're big enough. Very large designs are capped at the maximum size.
The price is always recalculated on the server when you check out — nothing here is taken on trust.
⌨ Keyboard & Mouse Shortcuts
Keyboard
| Shortcut | Action |
| Delete / Backspace | Delete the selected text |
| Ctrl/⌘ + D | Duplicate the selected text |
| Arrow keys | Nudge the selection by 1 px |
| Shift + Arrows | Nudge by 10 px |
| Ctrl/⌘ + + / − | Zoom the canvas in / out |
| Ctrl/⌘ + 0 | Fit the whole sign in view |
| Esc | Finish inline editing, then deselect (also closes any open dialog) |
Mouse
| Shortcut | Action |
| Wheel | Zoom towards the pointer |
| Space + drag | Pan the canvas |
| Middle mouse + drag | Pan the canvas |
| Shift + click | Add another text to the selection — drag to move them together |
| Double-click a text | Edit its wording right on the canvas |
| Drag on empty space | Rubber-band select several texts |