Door sign and company sign with a logo

You can choose from four fonts: Inter without serifs, Merriweather with serifs, the bold and narrow Oswald for very legible signs and the script font Pacifico. All four include German umlauts and ß. The size is the height of the capital letters, so a line with a size of 10 mm has capitals 10 mm tall.

With a common 0.4 mm nozzle, strokes should be at least 0.8 mm wide. The generator checks this and marks strokes that are too thin in the preview. With Merriweather and Pacifico the fine strokes quickly become too thin at small sizes. For small text below about 6 mm, Inter and Oswald are the better choice.

You can pick one of ten built-in shapes as a logo, for example a heart, a house or a paw. The logo sits to the left of the text or above it.

You can also use your own logo. An SVG file works best, because it already stores the logo as an outline. The generator uses filled areas and leaves out white areas. A multi-colour logo becomes a single colour. Convert any text in the SVG to paths in your graphics program first.

The generator traces an image in PNG or JPG format. The threshold sets how dark a pixel has to be to count as part of the logo. Next to your image you can see the result. This works well for clear, single-colour logos on a light background. Photos and logos with colour gradients can hardly be traced this way.

Your logo stays in your browser and is not uploaded. Only upload logos that you are allowed to use.

The 3MF file contains the sign as one object made of several parts: plate, border, text and logo. Each part is assigned a filament in the colour you chose, and parts of the same colour share a filament. When you open the file in Bambu Studio, the colours and assignments are already set. With an AMS, all you do is assign the spools when you send the job to the printer.

The file contains no print settings. After opening it in Bambu Studio, choose your printer, your filament and the print profile, for example "0.20mm Standard" with PLA. The parts and colours stay as they are.

Without a multi-colour system you print the sign with one colour change. Below the preview you can see before which layer to pause. Up to that point the printer prints the plate in the first colour, then the border, text and logo in the second. Set the colour change in your slicer at exactly this layer. It is correct if the plate thickness is a multiple of the layer height and the first layer is 0.2 mm high.

On smooth doors and walls, double-sided mounting tape on the back is enough. With two countersunk holes you screw the sign on. The holes sit on the left and right, and the screw head lies flush with the plate. The generator shows the matching screw length.

With the keyhole on the back you hang the sign on a screw that stands a little out of the wall. Place the large opening over the screw head and slide the sign down. Depending on the screw, the plate has to be at least 6 mm thick for this. In "Simple" mode the generator sets this for you. From a width of 120 mm the sign gets two keyholes so that it hangs straight.

The sign lies flat on the print bed with its back face down. This keeps the front smooth, and the border, text and logo stand cleanly on top. You do not need any supports. For the keyhole, the printer bridges a short gap over the pocket for the screw head, which works with PLA without supports.

Signs up to 256 mm fit most current printers. If your sign is larger, the generator tells you.

Use the 3MF file if you print with Bambu Studio, because the parts and colours are already assigned in it. The STL file contains the sign as a single body without colours. It works in any slicer, where you then set the colour change.

Some strokes are narrower than 0.8 mm, which is less than two lines of a 0.4 mm nozzle. Make the text larger or choose Inter or Oswald. You can still download the sign, but the marked spots will come out inaccurate.

Move the threshold until the result next to your image looks right. If the logo is light on a dark background, switch on "Swap light and dark". Tracing works best with an SVG file of your logo, which you can often get from your designer or your own website.

Yes, on request I print the sign and ship it to you. I will tell you the price beforehand. Below the generator you will find the "Request by e-mail" button, which already includes the link to your sign. An uploaded logo is not part of the link, so please send it as an attachment.

Yes. All settings except an uploaded logo are stored in the page address. Use the "Copy link" button and save the link as a bookmark or send it on. Anyone who opens the link sees exactly your sign.