Plan a sign

Legibility

Letters that read

About 4 cm of capital letter for every 10 m of reading distance, rounded up.

A distant shop sign seen down a street
Read from afarBigger for busy streets

The guideline

Letter size for the distance

The app suggests capital letters of at least 4 cm for every 10 m people read the sign from.

It follows the United States Sign Council guideline: on a town street a sign reads from about 25 feet per inch of capital-letter height, and text in capitals needs 15 % more. Bold letters with strong contrast read further; this is a guideline, not a Colombian rule.

Source: United States Sign Council Foundation, Guideline Standards for On-Premise Signs (2018) – read it

Suggested minimum letter height
Read fromCapital letters at least
3 m2 cm
5 m2 cm
10 m4 cm
15 m6 cm
20 m8 cm
25 m10 cm
30 m12 cm
40 m16 cm
50 m20 cm

Ready when you are

Plan your sign in the browser

Measure the façade and the window, choose the pieces and see the area, the letter size, a price range and the dates. The planner writes the request; you send it on WhatsApp or by email and Creaciones Macadeho replies with the quote.

A phone beside a shopfront drawing