Choosing a Sign Board: Glow, LED, Acrylic, or ACP?

"I need a sign board" is one of the most common requests we get, and one of the least specific — there are at least four genuinely different products that phrase could mean, and picking the right one changes both the cost and how the sign performs.

Glow sign board is the classic: an aluminium-framed box with a translucent flex or acrylic face, lit evenly from inside. It's the default storefront sign because it's readable day and night at a reasonable cost. If you just want "a lit-up sign with my shop name," this is usually it.

LED sign board isn't really a separate product so much as the lighting technology inside a glow box, channel letters, or an edge-lit panel — LED modules instead of old fluorescent tubes, running cooler, lasting longer, and lighting more evenly. If your existing glow sign is on old tube lighting, this is a retrofit conversation, not a new-sign conversation.

Acrylic sign board is a flat panel — not necessarily lit at all. A lot of what gets built here is a "day sign," meant to look sharp under normal light, mounted flush or on standoffs for a shadow-gap look. Choose this when you want something sharper and more premium-looking than flex, and don't necessarily need it to glow at night.

ACP sign board is the large-scale option — a rigid aluminium composite panel, used for fascia boards and building-front signage where flex or acrylic isn't structurally right for the size. It's not about lighting at all, it's about covering serious square footage without warping or becoming impossibly heavy.

If you're not sure which of these your situation calls for, the fastest way to find out is to tell us the size of the space and whether it needs to be lit — that alone rules out two of the four most of the time.