Tap a layer to edit it · drag to arrange · transparent background — you’re designing the actual cut vinyl
So your shop preps the right vinyl for the surface — the design itself stays transparent.
Cut, weed & transfer tape included. Shops reply with real quotes — usually same day, always free.
Type your words, pick a font and a vinyl colour, and set the letter height in real inches. The canvas shows the true finished size as you go — not a preview scaled to fit a screen — so you can hold the dimensions against the actual door, window or truck panel before anyone cuts anything.
When you send it, the shop receives a production-ready vector cut file: your text already converted to outlines, sized exactly as specified, ready to load into a plotter. That is the part that normally costs you a day and an art fee.
A cutting plotter follows paths, not pixels. It cannot cut a JPEG, a screenshot or a photo of a business card — there are no outlines in any of those for a blade to follow. So when a shop receives artwork like that, someone has to trace or rebuild it before anything happens, which is where most delays and most art fees come from.
This designer produces the file a plotter actually needs. Upload a logo and it is traced to vector automatically. There is no design software to learn and nothing to install. If you want the detail, the cut-ready file guide explains exactly what makes a file cuttable.
The most common mistake in lettering is not colour or font — it is size. The working rule is roughly one inch of letter height for every ten feet a reader needs to see it from. A glass door read from a few feet away wants 2–3 inch letters; a storefront read across a car park wants 6 or more; something read from a moving car wants 15 inches and up.
Because the designer works in real inches, you can set the height deliberately rather than discovering it when the vinyl arrives. The letter height chart has the full table by distance and by surface.
Storefront window lettering and opening hours, vehicle and work-truck lettering including DOT numbers, boat registration numbers and transom names, office and door lettering, wall quotes, job-site and yard signs. Anything that can be cut from vinyl and applied to a flat surface.
Vinyl lettering is priced by the area of cut vinyl, not by how many words you type — roughly $10 per square foot in 2026, with shop minimums around $25. Most real orders land between $25 and $150. Doubling letter height roughly quadruples the area, which is why sizing for the actual reading distance rather than the biggest thing that fits saves real money. Full breakdown in the cost guide.
Your finished design goes to the Fast Vinyl Signs shop for your area, who quotes and cuts it. One shop per area — orders are never shared out or rotated between competing shops. Find yours on the locations directory.
Yes. Designing, sizing and previewing costs nothing and needs no account. You only pay a sign shop if you go ahead and order the lettering.
A true vector SVG cut file, with your text already converted to outlines and sized in real inches — exactly what a cutting plotter needs. Uploaded artwork is traced to vector as well.
About one inch of letter height for every ten feet of viewing distance. A glass door wants 2–3 inches, a storefront 6 or more, something read from a moving car 15 inches and up.
No. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and produces a cut-ready file without Illustrator, CorelDRAW or any design experience.
A vinyl sign shop in your area. Each area is served by one exclusive Fast Vinyl Signs shop, so your order goes to them and is never shared with competing shops.