Channel letters, HDU carved signs, dimensional logos, and storefront signage — custom-fabricated to make your business impossible to miss, day or night.
Channel letter signs are individually fabricated three-dimensional letters or shapes — each one crafted from aluminum and acrylic, custom-built to your specifications. They are the most professional, most visible, and most enduring form of storefront identification available.
We design, fabricate, and install channel letters entirely in-house at our Orange Park facility. That means tighter quality control, faster turnaround, and a finished product that reflects your brand exactly as intended.
Different lighting styles and fabrication techniques create dramatically different effects. We help you choose the right style for your brand and building.
The most common and most recognizable type. The letter face is a translucent colored acrylic, and LED modules mounted inside illuminate the face — making your sign bright and legible from hundreds of feet away, day or night.
Front-lit letters can be any color and work for virtually every business type, from retail to medical to restaurant.
Reverse channel letters are mounted away from the wall, with LEDs facing backward. The result is a sophisticated halo effect — a soft glow surrounding each letter that reads as upscale, modern, and memorable.
Halo-lit signs are increasingly popular for professional services firms, hotels, medical practices, and any business that wants to project a premium image.
Channel letter fabrication isn't limited to letters. We build dimensional logos, custom shapes, and full-color cut-out signs using the same aluminum and acrylic construction. Your logo becomes a three-dimensional object that projects from the wall with real depth and presence.
Not every sign needs illumination. Painted or brushed aluminum dimensional letters give a professional, clean look for interior installations, office lobbies, and exterior applications with sufficient ambient lighting. Open face neon and LED channel signs offer a vintage-inspired aesthetic for restaurants, bars, and retail.
Channel letter signage paired with a Daktronics LED message center is the highest-impact storefront combination available — the letters establish your identity, the LED runs your messaging. CG Signs has been a Daktronics dealer for nearly two decades and routinely engineers, permits, fabricates, and installs the two systems as a single coordinated package on monuments, pylons, and building façades across Northeast Florida.
See our LED display workEvery channel letter project at CG Signs follows the same process — and the same team owns it end to end. No subcontractor hand-offs, no surprises.
Free on-site survey. We measure the façade, confirm power access, review City of Jacksonville sign code for the property, and produce scaled mockups and engineered drawings.
We file the building and electrical permit applications with Jacksonville, Orange Park, Clay County, St. Johns, or whichever jurisdiction applies — and coordinate inspector communication so you never have to.
Each letter is built in our Orange Park shop — .080 aluminum returns, color-matched acrylic faces, LED modules, trim caps, and transformer wiring. PMS-accurate paint, finished to brand spec.
Our own crew, our own equipment, UL-listed electrical work. Most installs complete in a single day. Backed by our workmanship warranty plus LED manufacturer coverage.
Florida's climate is harsh on exterior signage. Every channel letter we build is designed to withstand heat, humidity, salt air, and tropical weather for many years.
Letter returns and backs are fabricated from .080 aluminum — rust-free, lightweight, and structurally sound through decades of Florida weather cycles.
We use industry-leading LED illumination modules — rated for 50,000+ hours with consistent brightness, low power draw, and no maintenance.
Our crews handle all site surveys, structural analysis, permitting, and installation. We mount, wire, and test every sign ourselves — no subcontractors.
The questions Jacksonville business owners ask before they sign off on a channel letter project.
Channel letter signs vary widely based on letter height, illumination style (front-lit, halo-lit, or open-face), mounting method (raceway vs. flush), and total letter count. A typical small storefront set runs in the low-to-mid four figures installed; larger corporate facades and halo-lit installs run higher. Every CG Signs quote is custom — we visit the site, measure, and price the actual job. Request a free quote →
Most channel letter projects in Jacksonville run 4 to 8 weeks from design approval to installed sign. Design and engineering take 1–2 weeks, City of Jacksonville or Clay County permitting takes 2–4 weeks, and fabrication takes 2–3 weeks. Installation is typically a single day. Rush timelines are possible for some projects — ask us.
Yes. Exterior illuminated signs in Jacksonville, Orange Park, and surrounding municipalities require a building permit and an electrical permit, and must comply with the local sign code plus your property's landlord criteria. CG Signs is a licensed Florida contractor (FL #CGCA08677) and handles the complete permitting process — submittal, inspector coordination, and final electrical sign-off.
The LED modules we use are rated for 50,000+ hours — roughly 10–12 years of typical commercial operation. The aluminum returns and acrylic faces routinely last decades when properly fabricated for Florida humidity, UV, and salt air. We have channel letter signs we installed in Jacksonville in the 1990s and 2000s that are still running on their original housings.
Channel letters are individually fabricated three-dimensional letters mounted to the building. A box sign is a single rectangular illuminated cabinet with graphics applied to its face. Channel letters cost more, look significantly more upscale, and are increasingly required by landlords and shopping center owners. Box signs remain appropriate for some secondary signage applications.
Yes. CG Signs has been a Daktronics dealer since 2007 and routinely integrates Daktronics LED message centers under or alongside channel letter signage on monuments, pylons, and building façades. We engineer the combined structure, run permitting for both elements, and install everything as a single coordinated package. See our LED display work →
Yes. Send us your brand guidelines, logo files (vector preferred — AI, EPS, or SVG), and Pantone references. We match colors precisely using PMS-matched paints and color-matched acrylic faces. If you don't have a vector logo, we redraw it as part of the design phase.
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