--- title: "Neon Art: Famous Neon Artists and How Neon Art Is Made" description: "Neon art is art made from hand-bent glass tubes of glowing gas. The artists who made it famous, where to see their work, and how a drawing becomes neon." url: "https://www.signcustomiser.com/posts/neon/neon-art/" last_updated: "2026-10-09" --- Neon art is art made with light from sealed glass tubes of glowing gas. A bender heats the glass and bends it by hand to follow the artist’s drawing, fits an electrode at each end and fills the tube with neon, which glows orange-red, or argon and mercury, which glow blue. Artists have made neon art since the 1940s. The neon artists named most often include Bruce Nauman, Tracey Emin, Joseph Kosuth, Lucio Fontana and Keith Sonnier; the [table of famous neon artists](#famous-neon-artists-and-their-works) below lists their key works and where to see them. The name “neon art” has two other uses. Shops sell “neon art” made from LED neon flex, which copies the look with LEDs in a silicone strip and has no gas and no glass. And it can mean painting or digital art in bright neon colours. This guide covers glass neon first, then LED neon. We make Sign Customiser, software that lets a sign shop’s customers design and price neon and other signs on the shop’s own website. We do not bend glass or make signs. Our customers turn drawings into neon every day, so this guide explains neon art from the workshop side. **On this page:** - [Famous neon artists and their works](#famous-neon-artists-and-their-works) - [Where neon art came from](#where-neon-art-came-from) - [How neon art is made](#how-neon-art-is-made) - [Why neon art looks the way it does](#why-neon-art-looks-the-way-it-does) - [Who bends the glass: workshops and artist-benders](#who-bends-the-glass-workshops-and-artist-benders) - [Auction prices for neon art](#auction-prices-for-neon-art) - [Glass neon or LED neon](#glass-neon-or-led-neon) - [Where to see neon art](#where-to-see-neon-art) - [From a drawing to a neon design online](#from-a-drawing-to-a-neon-design-online) - [Frequently asked questions](#frequently-asked-questions) ## Famous neon artists and their works Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin are the two neon artists named most often. Nauman began making neon in the 1960s and used it for words and ideas rather than advertising. Emin, born in 1963, has made neon in her own handwriting since the mid-1990s. The table lists key neon artworks, what each is made of and where to see it today. Where a museum or source record is online, the title links to it. Where a work exists in more than one version, the table says so. Artist Work Year Made of Where to see it Gyula Kosice [_Estructura lumínica Madí 6_](https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/63005) dated 1946 neon; one of the earliest artworks to use neon Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Lucio Fontana [_Struttura al neon per la IX Triennale di Milano_](https://www.museodelnovecento.org/it/percorsi/sala-fontana) 1951 about 100 m of white neon A 2010 reconstruction in the Museo del Novecento, Milan Chryssa [_Times Square Sky_](https://walkerart.org/collections/artworks/times-square-sky) 1962 neon, stainless steel, lead solder and zinc alloy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Chryssa [_The Gates to Times Square_](https://buffaloakg.org/artworks/197211a-h-gates-times-square) 1964–66 neon and other materials Buffalo AKG Art Museum Joseph Kosuth [_Five Words in Green Neon_](https://whitney.org/collection/works/8377) 1965 neon Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Bruce Nauman [_The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths_](https://www.philamuseum.org/objects/31965) 1967 neon Versions are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Keith Sonnier [_Neon Wrapping Incandescent_](https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/126630/neon-wrapping-incandescent) 1969 neon and light bulbs Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Bruce Nauman [_Human/Need/Desire_](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81175) 1983 neon on glass tubing frames MoMA, New York Bruce Nauman [_One Hundred Live and Die_](https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2019/03/22/the-spirit-and-the-damage-done-on-bruce-naumans-100-live-and-die/) 1984 neon Benesse House Museum, Naoshima Tracey Emin [_Is Anal Sex Legal_](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-is-anal-sex-legal-t11890) 1998 neon Tate, London Martin Creed [_Work No. 232: the whole world + the work = the whole world_](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/creed-work-no-232-the-whole-world-the-work-the-whole-world-t07769) 2000 neon Tate, London Mario Merz [_Il volo dei numeri_](https://www.lucidartistatorino.org/en/opera/il-volo-dei-numeri/) 2000, permanent since 2018 red neon Fibonacci numbers The dome of the Mole Antonelliana, Turin Glenn Ligon [_Warm Broad Glow_](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/429318) 2005 neon and blackout paint An example is at MoMA, New York Cerith Wyn Evans [_Forms in Space… by Light (in Time)_](https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/tate-britain-commission-2017-cerith-wyn-evans-forms-spaceby-light-time) 2017 almost 2 km of neon Tate Britain Commission, 2017 (closed) Swipe for more Two names on many neon art lists need a note. **Dan Flavin** made his light works from standard fluorescent tubes, not neon: [_the nominal three (to William of Ockham)_](https://www.diaart.org/collection/collection/flavin-dan-the-nominal-three-to-william-of-ockham-1963-2013-003-1-3) (1963) and [_“monument” 1 for V. Tatlin_](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81337) (1964) are fluorescent light. And Tracey Emin’s 20-metre pink _I Want My Time With You_ at St Pancras International (2018) is made with LED, not glass neon, although it is in her handwriting like her neons. ## Where neon art came from Neon lighting was first shown in public in December 1910, when Georges Claude lit two tubes about 12 metres long on the colonnade of the Grand Palais at the Paris Motor Show. The first neon advertising sign is said to have been made for a Paris barber in 1912, but no photograph of it is known, as the neon historian Dydia DeLyser wrote in _Signs of the Times_ in April 2014. In the United States, Earle C. Anthony’s Packard neon signs in Los Angeles are traditionally dated 1923, but DeLyser found from aerial photographs and permits that the Los Angeles sign was not up until late 1924 or early 1925. Artists took it into sculpture after the Second World War. Gyula Kosice in Argentina made light sculptures with neon gas from 1946, and Lucio Fontana hung about 100 metres of hand-bent white neon from steel cables at the Milan Triennale in 1951. In the 1960s, neon became a medium for light art, text art and conceptual art: Chryssa made _Times Square Sky_ (1962) from neon tubing and stainless steel, Joseph Kosuth made neon that describes itself (_Five Words in Green Neon_ is five words in green neon), and Bruce Nauman hung a sentence in neon in the window of his San Francisco studio, a former shop. Keith Sonnier started using neon in 1968. The same sign-shop tube now carried ideas instead of brand names. ## How neon art is made A neon artwork in a museum and an “OPEN” sign in a shop window go through the same workshop steps. A bender makes each piece in seven steps: 1. **The pattern.** The artist’s drawing is drawn out at full size. The bender plans the tube runs: where each run starts and ends, and where a run must pass behind the work to reach the next letter or shape. 2. **Bending.** Glass tubing, typically about 9 to 25 mm across, is heated in a gas flame until it softens and is bent by hand to the pattern. Long or complex pieces are made in sections, and the bender joins them by heating and fusing their ends. 3. **Electrodes.** A metal electrode sealed in glass is fused onto each end of the run. 4. **Bombarding.** The tube goes on a vacuum pump. The air is pumped out and a very high current is passed through the tube to heat the glass and electrodes, which drives out impurities for the pump to remove. 5. **Filling.** The tube is filled with neon or argon at a small fraction of normal air pressure and sealed. 6. **Blocking out.** Parts of the tube that should not show, such as the jumps between letters, are painted with opaque blockout paint. 7. **Wiring.** A transformer raises the mains voltage to several thousand volts. Sign transformers commonly supply up to about 15,000 volts. The gas glows when current flows between the two electrodes. The gas and the glass decide the colour. Pure neon glows orange-red. Argon with a small amount of mercury glows blue, and the mercury’s ultraviolet light makes a phosphor coating on the inside of the glass glow. Coated or tinted glass gives the other colours. For a closer look at the material, see our guide to [glass neon signs](/posts/neon/glass-neon-signs/). One tube run: the lit letters, the painted-out jumps, an electrode at each end and the transformer. Long or complex pieces are made in several sections, but every section works this way. ## Why neon art looks the way it does Most of what makes neon art recognisable comes from the limits of hand-bent glass tube. **A tube is a line.** Neon draws with one glowing line of even width. That suits handwriting, outlines and words, which is why so much neon art is text. Where a letter cannot be drawn in one stroke, the bender doubles the tube back or jumps to the next letter and paints the jump out. Tracey Emin’s neons are made in her own handwriting. **Every colour change is glasswork.** A change of colour means a change of gas, coating or glass, so the colours of a multicoloured piece are planned section by section before the first bend. **The hardware is part of the work.** Bruce Nauman’s _Human/Need/Desire_ hangs on glass tubing frames, and MoMA lists them in the work’s materials. Glenn Ligon turned blockout paint into the subject: in _Warm Broad Glow_ (2005), his first neon, the fronts of the letters are painted black, so the words “negro sunshine” glow only from behind. MoMA lists the medium as “neon and blackout paint”. **Glass neon stays fragile and hand-made.** Every bend is made by hand in hot glass, so no two pieces are exactly the same, and a broken section has to be bent again by a bender. Gas does not last forever either: The Glass House in Connecticut says the argon and mercury in its Nauman neon, _Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body Taken at Ten Inch Intervals_ (1966), last 25 to 30 years. If you own glass neon, our [neon sign repair guide](/posts/neon/neon-sign-repair/) covers what can be fixed. ## Who bends the glass: workshops and artist-benders Many well-known artists design their neon and have a specialist workshop make it. Others bend the glass themselves. ### Artists and their benders M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture, notes that Nauman’s 1967 _The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths_ was “fabricated by neon technicians under Nauman’s supervision”. Some of the workshops behind famous neon are known by name: - **Let There Be Neon** in New York was founded in 1972 by Rudi Stern and is now in Brooklyn. It says it has worked with Tracey Emin since 2003, and it made an exterior installation, _The Ladder_, for the artist Iván Navarro. - **Lite Brite Neon** was founded by Matt Dilling in Brooklyn in 1999 and moved its main workshop to Kingston, New York, in 2017. It has made neon for artists including Glenn Ligon and Keith Sonnier. - **God’s Own Junkyard** in London grew from Electro Signs, founded by Dick Bracey in 1952. Chris Bracey, who died in 2014, made neon for films including _Blade Runner_ and _Eyes Wide Shut_, and his clients included David LaChapelle and Martin Creed. ### Artists who bend their own The Los Angeles neon artist Michael Flechtner learned to bend glass himself after an early piece he had designed but not made: “I hadn’t actually made the piece…only designed and wired it up…so I really couldn’t claim it as my art.” Meryl Pataky and Kelsey Issel co-founded She Bends in 2018, and museums have since shown the group’s work: the Museum of Glass in Tacoma in 2023, and the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco in _She Bends: Neon as Soulcraft_ (20 July to 24 November 2024). ### Fewer benders than before In a House of Commons debate on neon signage on 6 May 2025, Yasmin Qureshi MP said there are “only 27 full-time neon glass benders left in the United Kingdom, down from hundreds in previous decades”, and no full-time trainees. In Hong Kong, according to a 2023 Hong Kong Free Press report, the craftsman Wu Chi-kai estimated that “maybe eight or nine” neon masters were left, and an unfinished 2022 count by Tetra Neon Exchange put the number of neon signs at about 400. If you run a sign shop, an art commission is a different job from a shop sign: the artist’s drawing is the work, and the piece is often unique or one of a small edition. ## Auction prices for neon art Neon by famous artists can sell for high prices at auction. Some published results: Work Sale Price Tracey Emin, _George Loves Kenny_, neon commissioned by George Michael in 2007 Christie’s London, March 2019 £347,250 with fees (estimate £40,000–60,000) Bruce Nauman, _Violins Violence Silence_, neon, 1981–82 Sotheby’s New York, November 2009 about $4 million Dan Flavin, _alternate diagonals of March 2, 1964 (to Don Judd)_, fluorescent light Sotheby’s New York, May 2014 $3,077,000 with fees, then a record for the artist Swipe for more The Flavin is in the table because it is often described as neon art. It is fluorescent light, which shows how loosely the name “neon art” is used. For what LED neon costs a sign shop’s customers, see [what custom neon signs cost](/posts/neon/custom-neon-signs-cost/). ## Glass neon or LED neon LED neon flex is a strip of LEDs inside a silicone cover that spreads their light into an even line. It has no gas and no glass and runs at low voltage. One product, ICL’s Halo Micro, is rated on its datasheet at 24 volts, can be cut every 50 mm, is rated for 50,000 hours and is made to bend in one direction. For art, the difference is the material. Every glass neon piece in the table above is shaped by hand in a flame, and the light comes from the gas inside the glass. LED neon gives a similar look for less money with LEDs and silicone, and many shops that sell “neon art” for homes and events make it from LED neon flex. Most sign companies now use LEDs: in July 2020, _Signs of the Times_ reported that 85% of sign companies in its State of the Industry survey use LEDs as the light source for their electric signs. For a side-by-side comparison of running costs, safety and lifespan, see [neon versus LED](/posts/neon/neon-vs-led/), and for how LED neon signs are made, see [LED neon sign production](/posts/neon/led-neon-sign-production-process/). ## Where to see neon art Museums of neon: - The Neon Museum, Las Vegas. Founded in 1996. In October 2026 its website said the collection holds 322 signs in 977 pieces from more than 200 properties. - The Museum of Neon Art (MONA), Glendale, California. Founded in 1981 by the artists Lili Lakich and Richard Jenkins in Los Angeles. It runs hands-on neon bending classes. - The American Sign Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio. - God’s Own Junkyard, Walthamstow, London. The Bracey family’s neon workshop and collection; Dick Bracey founded the business as Electro Signs in 1952. In public, outside a museum: Mario Merz’s _Il volo dei numeri_, red neon Fibonacci numbers on the dome of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin. Museums: a reconstruction of Lucio Fontana’s 1951 neon hangs in the Museo del Novecento in Milan. Collections that hold neon artworks include MoMA (Nauman, Ligon), the Whitney (Kosuth), Tate (Emin, Creed), the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Kröller-Müller Museum (Nauman), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Kosice, Sonnier), Benesse House Museum, Naoshima (Nauman), and the Walker Art Center and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Chryssa). Check each museum’s website for what is on display, because collections rotate. ## From a drawing to a neon design online A bender’s first job is to turn a picture into lines a tube can follow. Sign shops that sell neon online face the same job every time a customer uploads a logo or a sketch, and most of those files are pictures, not line drawings: 90% of the 17,076 artwork files customers attached to design and quote requests on Sign Customiser stores in the year to September 2026 were PNG or JPG images. Our [artwork intake policy for sign shops](/posts/general/sign-shop-artwork-policy/) covers what to do with them. We built the bender’s first step, turning a picture into lines, into the [AI Sign Designer](/ai-sign-designer/). It turns a customer’s logo, photo or sketch into a sign design with an instant price on the shop’s own website. For LED neon, AI Sign Designer V2, which is available to all eligible stores, lays out a design much as a bender lays out a pattern: 1. An image model first redraws the upload as clean sign artwork, and code flattens it into shapes with at most 12 colours. 2. It asks an image model to redraw the design as “the flow lines a glass bender would lay out as tube runs”: one smooth centre line for each normal stroke (an outline for a very wide shape), no forks, an even line width, no tiny serifs, and the same position and size as the original. 3. Before the drawing is traced, it removes stray lines that are not in the original: lines thinner than 40% of the median tube width and up to 8 tube widths long, such as short bridges between letters and loose tails. If it finds a longer stray line, it rejects that drawing rather than deliver a poor one. 4. Code, not the model, then measures the drawing against the cleaned artwork from step 1: at least 90% of the redrawn lines should sit inside it, and they should cover at least 60% of it. If a drawing misses either mark, the customer still sees it, and the merchant sees a “Design check” warning on that AI design file: “The neon drawing may not match the uploaded artwork exactly.” 5. It puts the original colours back on each tube and shows the design to the customer as lit neon tubes, with a price from the shop’s own price settings. If the drawing step fails to run, the customer sees the first, filled design instead. The order arrives with vector files, but the AI Sign Designer does not check bend radius, the gap between tubes or the width of the flex. The shop, or the maker it works with, still checks the files against its flex before bending, just as a bender checks an artist’s sketch. The software takes the first draft and the quote off the shop’s desk. If you run a sign shop, our [neon sign design and quoting software](/solutions/neon-signs/) lets your customers design and price neon on your own website. To see how a neon design looks lit before anything is made, try the free [neon sign maker](/neon-sign-maker-online-free/). ## Frequently asked questions ### Who is the most famous neon artist? Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin are the neon artists named most often. Nauman began making neon in the 1960s, including _The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths_ (1967). Emin has made neon in her own handwriting since the mid-1990s. Dan Flavin is often listed too, but he worked with fluorescent tubes, not neon. ### How does neon art work? A neon artwork is one or more sealed glass tubes. A bender heats the glass and bends it by hand to a full-size pattern, fits a metal electrode at each end, pumps out the air, heats the tube to drive out impurities and fills it with neon or argon at low pressure. A transformer raises the voltage to thousands of volts, and the gas glows when current flows between the electrodes. ### Is Dan Flavin a neon artist? No. Dan Flavin made his light works from standard fluorescent tubes and fixtures, for example _the nominal three (to William of Ockham)_ (1963) and “monument” 1 for V. Tatlin (1964). He appears on many neon art lists because his work looks similar, but his works are fluorescent light, not neon. ### What colours can neon art be? Pure neon gas glows orange-red. Argon with a small amount of mercury glows blue, and its ultraviolet light makes a phosphor coating on the inside of the glass glow. Coated or tinted glass gives the other colours. So every colour in a glass neon artwork is a choice of gas, coating and glass. ### Why did people stop using neon? Neon is still made, but most sign companies now use LEDs. In July 2020, Signs of the Times reported that 85% of sign companies in its State of the Industry survey use LEDs as the light source for their electric signs. Fewer people learn to bend glass: in May 2025 Yasmin Qureshi MP told the House of Commons that there are only 27 full-time neon glass benders left in the United Kingdom. ### Is LED neon real neon art? Not in the gallery sense. LED neon is a strip of LEDs inside a silicone cover that spreads the light, with no gas and no glass. It gives a similar look for less money, and many shops that sell “neon art” for homes make it from LED neon. The neon art in museums, by artists such as Bruce Nauman and Glenn Ligon, is glass neon. ### Where can I see neon art? The Neon Museum in Las Vegas, the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, California, the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati and God’s Own Junkyard in London show neon. MoMA, the Whitney and Tate hold neon artworks. In public, Mario Merz’s red neon Fibonacci numbers climb the dome of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, and a reconstruction of Lucio Fontana’s 1951 neon hangs in the Museo del Novecento, Milan. ## Sources Facts and figures in this guide were checked on 1 October 2026. History: the [Science History Institute](https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/a-blaze-of-crimson-light-the-story-of-neon/) and Dydia DeLyser, [“An exploration of neon sign origins”](https://signsofthetimes.com/an-exploration-neon-sign-origins/), _Signs of the Times_, April 2014. How neon is made: Wikipedia’s [Neon lighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_lighting) (tube sizes and gas pressures) and [Neon-sign transformer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon-sign_transformer) (transformer voltages), [Echo Neon](https://www.echoneon.com/neon-signs/how-made/) and MoMA’s record for Ligon’s _Warm Broad Glow_ (blockout paint). Works: the museum records linked in the table, plus [Dia](https://www.diaart.org/collection/collection/flavin-dan-the-nominal-three-to-william-of-ockham-1963-2013-003-1-3) and [MoMA](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81337) for Flavin, [Guide London](https://www.guidelondon.org.uk/blog/around-london/tracey-emin-arrives-at-saint-pancras-international-station-in-london/) for St Pancras, [M+](https://www.neonsigns.hk/neon-in-visual-culture/neon-in-art/?lang=en) for Nauman’s fabrication and [The Glass House](https://theglasshouse.org/learn/the-conservation-of-bruce-naumans-neon-templates/) for gas life. Workshops and benders: [Let There Be Neon](https://lettherebeneon.com/history), [Hudson Valley magazine](https://hvmag.com/things-to-do/lite-brite-neon-electrifies-kingstons-art-scene/) on Lite Brite Neon, [Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/11/02/gods-own-junkyard-at-70-how-a-humble-family-run-neon-business-lit-up-hollywood) and [Meer](https://www.meer.com/en/2847-chris-bracey) on God’s Own Junkyard, [Voyage LA](https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-michael-flechtner-flechtroneonics-san-fernando-valley-van-nuys/) (Flechtner), the [Museum of Glass](https://www.museumofglass.org/she-bends-redefining-neon-legacy) and the [Museum of Craft and Design](https://sfmcd.org/she-bends-release/) (She Bends), [Hansard](https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-05-06/debates/D1F7E34A-1F98-469D-BB9F-FE3D7E758FD2/NeonSignage), 6 May 2025, and [Hong Kong Free Press](https://hongkongfp.com/2023/04/16/its-disappearing-very-fast-hong-kongs-fading-neon-heritage-shines-a-spotlight-on-the-craft/), 16 April 2023. Prices: [_The Art Newspaper_](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/03/15/bid-me-up-before-you-go-go-sun-goes-down-on-george-michaels-art-collection-at-christies) (Emin), [artnet](https://news.artnet.com/market/bruce-nauman-market-analysis-326278) (Nauman) and [Sotheby’s](https://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/dan-flavin) (Flavin). LED: [ICL’s Halo Micro datasheet](http://iclighting.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/LED-Neon-Flex-ICL-Halo-Micro-Datasheet.pdf) and [_Signs of the Times_](https://signsofthetimes.com/electricsigntrends/), July 2020. Museums: the [Neon Museum](https://neonmuseum.org/about-us/), the [Museum of Neon Art](https://www.neonmona.org/about) and the [American Sign Museum](https://www.americansignmuseum.org). The AI Sign Designer steps come from Sign Customiser’s own code. 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Read more ![Animated image of the word "hello" in cursive neon tube on a black background, switching between electric blue, pale pink and red-orange glows](/blog/uploads/electric-blue-neon-blue-aesthetic-2.gif) neon·September 26, 2023 ### [Electric blue neon signs: meaning, ideas and pricing](/posts/neon/electric-blue-neon-blue-aesthetic/) What makes electric blue neon glow, the blue aesthetic it creates, sign ideas by room, and how sign shops price and sell custom blue neon online. Read more ![LED faux neon sign example](/blog/1.10-faux-neon-sign/1.gif) neon·April 3, 2023 ### [Faux neon signs: LED alternatives, costs & business guide (2026)](/posts/neon/faux-neon-sign/) Complete guide to faux neon (LED neon) signs. Compares LED vs glass neon, covers profit margins for sign shops, and explains why LED neon dominates the market. Read more ![Are glass neon signs worth it?](/blog/1.1-glass-neon-signs/1.jpg) neon·March 28, 2023 ### [Are glass neon signs worth it?](/posts/neon/glass-neon-signs/) Are you curious about the cost and lifespan of glass neon signs? Our guide has all the answers you need to make an informed purchase. Read more ![How to hang a neon sign - step-by-step installation guide](/blog/1.7-hanging-neon-signs/1.gif) neon·March 30, 2023 ### [How to hang a neon sign: step-by-step guide (with & without nails)](/posts/neon/hanging-neon-signs/) Learn how to hang a neon sign on any surface. Step-by-step instructions for drywall, brick, concrete & glass. Plus tips to hide wires and avoid wall damage. Read more ![How to make custom neon signs?](/blog/how-to-make-custom-neon-signs/1.jpg) neon·December 23, 2022 ### [How to make custom neon signs, the easy guide for Shopify sign stores](/posts/neon/how-to-make-custom-neon-signs/) Learn how to make custom neon signs as a producer. 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Read more ![An LED neon name sign reading Olivia on a clear acrylic backboard on a workshop table, with a reel of LED neon flex, pliers and a laptop](/blog/uploads/name-in-lights-generator.webp) neon·March 10, 2026 ### [Name in lights: what customers type into a neon name sign generator](/posts/neon/name-in-lights-generator/) Sign Customiser data: 70% of LED neon designs added to cart are two words or fewer, and one in four keep the default font. What that means for your generator. Read more ![Neon light writer tool interface on laptop screen with LED sign designs in background workspace](/blog/uploads/neon-light-writer.webp) neon·March 19, 2026 ### [Neon light writer: 6 free and paid neon text tools compared](/posts/neon/neon-light-writer/) Neon light writers compared: free neon text generators such as FlamingText, Cool Text and Canva, and sign software that turns words into LED neon signs. Read more ![Bright neon open sign glowing in a storefront window](/blog/uploads/custom-neon-signs-2.jpg) neon·January 5, 2025 ### [Neon open signs: the complete guide to open signs for businesses (2025)](/posts/neon/neon-open-signs/) Discover the best neon and LED open signs for your business. Compare types, sizes, and installation options. Plus expert tips for choosing the perfect open sign. Read more ![Neon sign library: Everything you need to know about neon signs](/blog/1.0-pillar-one/1.gif) neon·April 2, 2023 ### [Neon signs hub: your one stop shop for all things neon signs](/posts/neon/neon-sign/) Discover the colorful world of neon signs with our ultimate guides! Learn about their history, design, cost, and much more. Read more ![A warm-white 'Welcome Home' neon script sign mounted on a green plant wall](/blog/1.5-neon-sign-ideas/1.jpg) neon·April 5, 2023 ### [70 neon sign ideas by room & occasion (2026 guide)](/posts/neon/neon-sign-ideas/) See 70 neon sign ideas for bedrooms, weddings, bars and businesses, organised by room and occasion, plus how sign shops price and sell them online. Read more ![Custom neon sign quote in script font](/blog/1.6-neon-sign-quotes/1.gif) neon·April 4, 2023 ### [Best neon sign quotes: 150+ ideas for every occasion (2026)](/posts/neon/neon-sign-quotes/) Curated neon sign quotes for weddings, businesses, bars, bedrooms and more. Includes best-selling categories and pricing strategies for sign shops. Read more ![Neon sign repair - troubleshooting and fixing broken neon signs](/blog/1.9-neon-sign-repair/1.jpg) neon·April 1, 2023 ### [Neon sign repair guide: DIY fixes & when to call a pro](/posts/neon/neon-sign-repair/) Complete guide to neon sign repair. 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Read more ![Neon wedding sign ideas and placement guide for your big day](/blog/uploads/neon-wedding-sign-2.gif) neon·September 26, 2023 ### [Neon wedding signs: 40+ ideas, placement guide & costs](/posts/neon/neon-wedding-sign/) Complete guide to neon signs for wedding decor. Discover 40+ ideas, placement tips, rental vs purchase costs, and how to match your wedding theme. Read more ![Close-up of a person wearing round sunglasses reflecting a glowing purple neon sign](/blog/uploads/purple-neon-sign-1.jpg) neon·September 26, 2023 ### [Purple neon light: meaning, shades & buying guide](/posts/neon/purple-neon-sign/) What purple neon light means, the shades from lavender to magenta, and how sign shops price and sell custom purple neon signs online with a live customiser. Read more ![White neon sign: a guide to choosing the right one!](/blog/uploads/white-neon-sign-1.jpg) neon·September 26, 2023 ### [White neon sign: a guide to choosing the right one!](/posts/neon/white-neon-sign/) Looking for a chic and modern addition to your decor? Check out our guide to choosing the best white neon sign. Read more ![Neon signs in storefront display](/blog/why-are-neon-signs-so-expensive/1.jpg) neon·December 12, 2022 ### [Why are neon signs so expensive? 2026 pricing guide for sign shops](/posts/neon/why-are-neon-signs-so-expensive/) Complete breakdown of neon sign costs for sign shop owners. Covers material, labour, and overhead costs plus strategies to improve margins with LED neon. Read more [View all articles](/posts/) ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/sitemap.md) for all pages.