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YachtSignMasters is a division of Signmasters, Inc. Established in 1976. Our expertise is derived from working with Manhattan NY Architects & Designers. Fabricating premium signage for 43 Years and installing signs, letters, logos and graphics all over New York City, Long Island & beyond pleasing the fussiest clients from The Trump Organization to the Canteen On Fire Island. Over the years experience has enabled us to deliver yacht lettering, yacht signs and boat letters when only the best has been desired by our yacht & boat owner clients. Yacht Sign Masters water jet cuts, laser cuts, and flawlessly crafts marine grade yacht signs & letters. We use only the best quality grade materials, including 316L alloy marine grade stainless steel to fabricate letters, logos, graphics & numbers for all kinds of power & sail boats, yachts & cruise ships as well. Large & small, we satisfy all marine boating & yachting enthusiasts. Our shops fabricate the finest LED edge lighted, LED backlight, halo lighted, back lighted letters and logos for all size boats, yachts and ships. Weather it's flat cut metal letters or thicker depth fabricated letters, or led edge lit acrylic with metal inserts, we use 304 stainless steel alloy for interior plaques and we use 316 alloy marine grade stainless steel when you want the best for her name lettering. We can make any design with any rgb, fiber optic or led lighting in just about any size & thickness / depth in 316 marine grade stainless steel. And, we are experts at installing fiber optic lighting letters, LED illuminated & non lighted yacht signs, boat lettering, ship signage & 3D dimensional letters specifically for all marine applications. We are perfectionists at all facets of sign letter fabrication including the installation. Equally important, we are perfectionists at metal finishing for chrome and gold plated, mirror polished, satin brushed finish, mirror titanium gold, satin brushed titanium gold, swirl, non directional, etch finishing, anodizing, baked enamel, powder coating and we can match any pms pantone color. Yacht and boat owners appreciate the expertise and care we provide focused on bringing their yacht name to life. After all captain, it is the finishing touch for all yachts, boats & ships both large and small. Yacht Sign Masters from the design through fabrication and the installation of your signs, letters & graphics takes care of your yacht, boat & ship name signage and the vessel itself like it were our own. Start now to bring your name design ideas or our design ideas to life on your Motor Yacht, Sail Yacht, Power or Sail Boat beyond quality and beyond your expectations! Put our expertise to work for you. Contact YachtSignMaster to get the impeccable service you want.

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Yacht Lettering, INC is a worldwide leading custom yacht sign manufacturer and installer for illuminated raised lettering for any yacht or boat . We have over 17 years of experience and over 10,000 projects of stainless steel illuminated marine projects.

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Graphic Measurements

Once you give us the information on the location of your boat, we will come down to measure and take pictures. Once we take our measurements, we can virtually impose the name on your boat without actually putting the name on the vessel with actual sizes. This way we can decide on where and how big the lettering will be on your yacht.

Luxury Design

Once we complete step one, we can go ahead and start with your custom typography graphics. Our top-rated designers are here to give you exactly what you’re picturing, and bring out the lettering to real life with maximum creativity.

Lettering Development

Once confirmed the layout and price we require a 60% deposit. When received we take about 1-6 (We can expedite projects) weeks to make depending on what material you choose.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does the lighting last.

We have a 3 year warranty on all lights.

What are yacht signs?

Yachts signs is a high end lettering product made for luxurious yachts, the name acts as a license plate for the boat so people can identify it.

How long does it take to make and install one of these signs?

What grade stainless steel do you use.

We use a 316L stainless, it a standard signage metal grade for the marine industry.

What’s the most popular single color lights?

The most popular colors are warm white, cool white and blue.

Illuminated Sign Colors

Our line of lighted custom LED’s, are nothing but the best quality for luxury signage on your yacht or boat. This provides long lasting lettering (up to 8 years) that come with a luxury look.

Stainless Steel & Acrylic Vibrant Colors

Our raised stainless steel lettering, wood, and acrylic is made 100% in the USA. The quality that comes with these lettering products is astonishing that will survive without corroding or fading in any marine environment.

Visit our custom design page and create your own signage for your boat and get a free quote! You can also submit a form where we can create a design for you with a free quote, the choice is yours.

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Our wooden boat name plates last…

a long time with proper care, and they always look great!

The letters on these wooden boat name plates are not carved . However, the boards still look great because we used 23 karat gold leaf. The outline and shadow are applied by hand with black one shot lettering enamel.

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Gesso and size.

Gilding on wood requires gesso to be applied first. The term “gesso” refers to a mixture of finely ground gypsum or chalk and glue.  Thee coating of gesso is applied, allowed to dry, and then it smoothed with light sanding. Oil based size it applied with a brush and allowed to rest until a suitable degree of stickiness is achieved. The gold leaf is applied at this point, when the size it not too whet and not too dry.

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Name Board Design for Boats

A beautiful name board can add a wonderful touch of distinctive elegance to any boat.

But beware of optical illusions that can be caused by curved transoms and sheer lines.

Finish, Mounting and Maintenance

Once upon a time boat names were all hand carved or pained and because this was a skill that took time and care, time and care was taken to ensure that the lettering was designed to fit and enhance the boat.

The proliferation of cheap vinyl lettering and clip art has virtually done away with the need to hand paint lettering.

However, this can lead to unfortunate results.

No matter how professional the graphics and lettering are, how they end up looking on your boat will depend on their positioning with regard to the overall design and character of your boat.

Name Board Appearance

One of the problems associated with graphics on a boat is caused by the optical illusions created when curved surfaces are viewed from different angles.

Even the most beautifully carved name plate, which looks wonderful viewed straight on, can look slightly odd viewed from above, especially if it is on a curved surface.

A straight name board on a curved, sloping transom can look like a grin when viewed from above.

Equally, name boards on the bows need careful consideration.

A bow with a pronounced flare will cause foreshortening.

And a name board which looks fine on the starboard bow might look completely wrong on the port bow.

Foreshortening will also affect how the height of the letters will appear.

Most small boat names will be viewed, most often, from above, either from the deck of another boat or from the dockside.

The usual solution is to arrange the name board to conform to the shape of the taffrail or sheer line or follow the shape, size and curve of a plank.

And keeping all lettering the same size will reduce the likelihood of distortion due to foreshortening.

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The purpose design is to establish a harmony of proportion throughout the whole structure.

Whether you are using cheap vinyl lettering, carving you own, having one made, such as a bronze name plaque , first consider the design carefully.

Once you decide where the name is to go, make some rough measurements and estimate the size you want.

A 'rough rule of thumb', starting point, for the maximum length of a bow name plates is to make it 1 inch for every foot or 75 mm for every Meter, or overall length of the boat.

For a transom, somewhere around 60% to75% of the transom width.

But these are general rules of thumb, you will also need to take into consideration the number and size of the letters, a short three letter name will look odd if it is stretched.

In some cases the size and shape will be dictated by the position, the height of a shear stripe or plank width, etc.

On others the best size may not be so obvious.

So before spending too much money or time on the finished article make a paper mock up, stick it on with some Blu-Tac or tape and then stand back and take a critical look.

Try to view it from the angle it will most likely be viewed from, in the case of a small boat, from just above.

If you are not sure you can ask for the opinion of others, however, beauty, as they say is in the eye of the beholder.

The neater you make the paper mock up the easier it will be to get an idea how the finished article will look.

You can draw it out freehand if you are sufficiently artistic.

However, it is relatively simple to print out full sized letters and even clip art using your computer's word processor or 'Paint' program.

If you are looking for ideas, have a look around at other boats and what they have used, this is probably the best way to get a true idea of ​​how a name board looks in reality.

Generally the designs which work best are the least complex, traditional name boards.

Actually choosing a font is probably more difficult nowadays as the choice on the average word processor is enormous.

Try to choose something which will express both the personality of your boat and perhaps say something about you.

Type your boat name into your word processor, then keep changing the font type until you find the one that seems most appropriate.

For a traditional look a font with serifs, such as Times New Roman is the safest bet.

For a truly classic design use an upper case, serif, font for the boat name and smaller upper case, sans serifs for the port of registration.

No further embellishments are required.

With the advent of vinyl decals it has become perhaps too easy to incorporate imagery into a boat name.

An image can make a name more visually compelling, however a boat name does not require an image.

And all too often the vinyl decals use 'clip-art' of dubious artistic or original quality.

Images work best when they simply add a flourish or add to the meaning rather than overpowering it.

Something else to consider is that the more ornate a name board, the more difficult it will be to keep it maintained.

There is nothing like a bit of gold leaf on name board to turn it into a real work of art.

And the extra benefit is that the gold leaf will out last any varnish or even the wood itself.

But whatever the finish the boards will need removing from time to time for maintenance, it may just be to paint underneath.

So, when it comes to mounting, do it such ways that the screws/bolts can be removed at a later date (something else which you cannot do with vinyl lettering).

A wooden name board which has been varnished needs to have the top coat topped up regularly.

The UV protection in the top coat will break down with time and it is this which needs topping up.

That beautiful name board will add a wonderful touch of distinctive elegance to any boat as long as it is kept looking good.

Oh, and do not forget to register her name with the 'powers that be'.

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Moscow street navigation system

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By the request of the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow and the Main Architectural and Planning Office of Moscomarchitecture recommendations on improvement of city street navigation were developed at the studio. The recommendations are assembled into a guide book and cover typefaces, colors, pictograms and layout principles for house number and street name plates.

Pedestrian zone plates

Pedestrian zones in Moscow are small streets with narrow sidewalks and facade buildings many of which are listed. These streets are used by residents for leisure and are included in many walking and tourist guides, making aesthetics of house plates especially important.

The plates are typeset conforming to the technical documentation approved by the Moscow authorities and based on available manufacturing capabilities. Different formats are available for use with long and short names of city toponyms.

Typefaces: Staromoskovsky and Direct-Mos

Plates for the whole city

The second, simpler, design of the plates is made to be installed throughout the entire city with the exception for pedestrian zones.

Two sizes of plates are available—small and large. In each individual case the choice is made according to the number of characters in the name of the street.

For residential areas where houses are not placed along a street and are separated by considerable distances, vertical combination plates were developed with large and highly visible house numbers.

For reasons of economy it is acceptable to produce plates that combine the street name and the house number.

An original typeface, Staromoskovsky, was created for use on the plates. The face is designed in the spirit of traditional Moscow street name plates.

Street signs

Street signs indicate the location of important city objects, organizations and landmarks. They are made in the form of either free-standing structures or panel brackets for mounting on lighting and utility poles. The signs contain the name of the object in two languages, its pictogram, address and walking time in minutes. To simplify typesetting and make comprehension of long official names of state organizations easier, universal rules for their abbreviation were created. All texts on the signs are typed with the Direct-Mos typeface—a modified version of the Direct typeface created specifically for navigation.

Besides the traditional blue background of the signs, a new brown one was proposed to visually separate cultural objects. Pictograms are used as a secondary navigation element. They convey the message even to those who do not know the language, as well as improve legibility of information from a distance, in bad weather conditions, in low light and so on, as their optical density is higher than that of text.

The whole system of city street navigation is based on strict and coherent graphic principles. Some elements are common for all media: color scheme, typefaces and pictograms, positions of direction arrows. Unified layout allows to easily identify signs as elements of the navigation system and provide for their comfortable use, reducing the time needed to understand the logic behind the system.

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