Brent's Sign Calculator

Stack upright letters from top to bottom on a vertical sign. Measurements are in inches (in) unless a label says otherwise, and every number updates as you type.

Settings

Sign orientation

Letters stack from top to bottom. Switching swaps the sign width and height and the margins to match.

On fonts.google.com open a font and copy the page address, or copy the link or <link> tag from its Embed panel. The font then appears in the Font list below.

Layout

Lettering

Sign

Margins

Spacing

Letter size

Rotate each letter

Some IM Fell letters lean. Turn any letter to stand it upright. Positive turns it clockwise and negative turns it counter-clockwise, in degrees. The preview, the table and the print PDF all use these values.

Result

—pt

Font size in points (pt). Enter this in your design software.

Where each letter goes

Measured to the visible edges of each letter, from the top-left corner of the sign. Fractions are rounded to the nearest 1/16 in.

LetterWidthHeightFrom leftFrom top

Scale a template

Laid the sign out on a smaller artboard? Enter its height to get the enlargement and the font size to use there.

Print full size in tiles

Print PDF

Builds a full-size PDF from the numbers above: the lettering centered on every sheet, with target marks in the overlaps to line the sheets up. It is rebuilt from your current settings each time you click.