Changelog

Advanced customisers now make the difference between automatic and manual sizing clear. Signs follow the customer’s text by default. A chosen manual size remains in place as they edit the design, and the familiar size lock lets them return to content-driven sizing with one click.

What’s Changed

• One-click return to automatic widthClicking the locked size control resizes the sign to its current content and keeps following later text or font changes
• Stable manual sizingAdjusting the slider, width or height keeps the padlock open and preserves that size while the customer changes text, fonts or orientation
• Explicit lockingThe padlock closes only when the customer clicks it
• Familiar placementThe size control stays beside the width and height inputs, where customers already expect to find it
• Frame Fit stays familiarFrame Fit customisers keep their existing size lock because it still represents the fixed box customers expect

Sign Customiser now has a dedicated stencil signs page and live demo. Customers choose letter height first, then see the finished bordered sheet size and price update as their text changes.

What’s Changed

• Letter height comes first. Customers choose a preset tier, then see the finished sheet update as they edit the text. When enabled, an Exact letter height input sits alongside the tiers.
• Finished sheet size stays visible. The dimensions include the border around the cut lettering, alongside the live price.
• Eligible text designs get cut-ready SVGs. Eligible text-only designs emit physically calibrated flat-path SVGs. Uploaded or masked artwork may use fallback SVG geometry.
• DXF is optional. It is merchant-enabled, available only for eligible flat text-only stencil SVGs. Conversion can fail, so an order may have no DXF.
• Starter stencil fonts keep their bridges. Fonts not marked stencil-safe show a warning so they can be reviewed before production.

Sign Customiser now supports Braille Signs, a new plate-style product type for merchants selling accessibility and wayfinding signage. Customers type the printed wording, see a live braille row appear underneath it, and the same braille data flows through checkout, product images, manufacturer emails, and production files.

What’s Changed

• New Braille Signs product typePick “Braille Signs” in the customiser create flow to start from a complete plate-sign setup with demo sizes, colours, fonts, plate options, and mountings.
• Automatic braille translationCustomer wording is translated into braille automatically as they type, with country-based table defaults and a merchant override when a project needs a specific braille table.
• Honest language tiersThe 14-table support matrix is backed by the same registry used by the app, with included, review-recommended, and not-supported tiers so merchants know when to proof output or route the customer to a quote path.
• Standards-exact dot geometryBraille dots keep their physical size when the plate changes, with ADA and AU geometry presets feeding the preview, measurements, validation, and fulfilment data.
• Manufacturing-ready vector outputSVG, EPS, and Illustrator-compatible files include the braille dots as exact vector circles, so production teams get usable artwork instead of a visual-only preview.
• Included in current plansBraille signs are part of the current Sign Customiser plan system with no braille-specific surcharge.

Lightbox signs are almost always made to specific dimensions, so we have made the size follow the artwork. When a customer uploads an image to the face of a lightbox sign, the sign now reshapes itself to match the image’s proportions, scaled to sit within the sign’s size limits. Customers get a result that matches what they uploaded, without working out the right dimensions by hand.

What’s Changed

• Lightbox signs match your uploaded imageWhen a customer uploads artwork to the face of a lightbox sign, the sign’s custom width and height adopt the image’s proportions automatically, scaled to fit within the allowed size range. The size selection switches to Custom for them, so what they see on screen is what gets made.
• Custom sizes by default for new lightbox signsNew lightbox customisers start in custom-size mode with no preset size tiers, matching how lightbox signs are really quoted and produced. You stay in control: your existing customisers are left exactly as they are, and you can still offer preset sizes whenever you want them.
• Flexible artwork croppingCustomers can crop an uploaded image to any shape rather than being forced into a fixed square, which makes it far easier to fit logos and artwork to bespoke sign dimensions.
• Uploads stay put when resizingArtwork a customer has already added is kept when the sign size changes, so adjusting the dimensions no longer clears the image they uploaded.

Sign Customiser now lets you price a backboard by the area of the sign. Instead of a single flat fee, you can set a rate per square inch (or per square centimetre) so bigger signs are charged proportionally more for their backboard — a fairer way to recover material costs that grow with size.

What’s Changed

• Area-based backboard pricingOn any backboard, choose “Price per square in/cm” under Additional Pricing and set a rate. The charge is the sign’s width × height × your rate, added automatically to the customer’s quote.
• Clear customer breakdownWhen an area rate applies, customers see a dedicated “Backboard area” line in their price breakdown showing the dimensions, the rate, and the resulting charge.
• Follows your measurement unitEnter the rate per square inch or per square centimetre to match your store’s settings; the customiser handles the conversion for you.
• Works with bulk price adjustmentsThe area rate scales alongside your other prices when you apply a global price adjustment or switch currency, so nothing is left behind.
• Off by defaultExisting backboards are unaffected; pricing only changes once you set a rate. The option is hidden on Frame Fit and Cut-out Metal signs, which already price the whole sign by area.

If your Shopify store uses Markets to sell across multiple countries or regions, Sign Customiser now publishes each generated custom sign product to the shopper’s active market automatically. Previously a custom design could be created in a market where it wasn’t yet available for purchase, leaving some shoppers unable to complete checkout. Now the product is made available in the right market behind the scenes, so more customers reach the checkout no matter where they’re buying from.

What’s Changed

• Automatic publishing to active marketsCustom sign products are now added to the catalogues of your active Shopify Markets when a design is created, so they’re available to buy in every region you sell to.
• Guided Markets access setupA new banner in the Shopify admin lets stores using Markets approve the optional access Sign Customiser needs, with a single click and clear explanation of why it helps.
• More reliable checkoutThe customiser and add-to-cart flow now stay resilient when market or cart information is incomplete, so shoppers still get a smooth path to checkout instead of an error.
• Works quietly in the backgroundStores that don’t use Shopify Markets see no change, and there’s nothing extra to configure — everything happens automatically once access is approved.

Sign Customiser now lets you offer a backlit glow on cut-out metal sign customisers. Add a backlight option and your customers can switch the lighting on, pick a colour, and watch the preview update live — light blooming around the panel edge and through the inside of every cut-out shape, just like a real LED-backlit sign lit up against a wall.

The same glow follows any design. Whether your customer types their own text or uploads a logo through the AI Sign Designer, the shape is cut from the panel and lit around every edge.

What’s Changed

• New backlight optionAdd a backlight selection to any cut-out metal customiser so customers can choose to light their sign up.
• A range of glow coloursOffer warm white, amber and other single colours, or multi-colour RGB and Flow effects — each with its own optional price adjustment.
• Works for text and logosCustomer-typed text and AI Sign Designer logos are both cut from the panel, with the glow tracing every edge of the design.
• True-to-life glow previewThe light blooms softly out from the panel edge and the inside edge of every cut-out shape, with see-through centres, instead of a hard painted outline.
• Carried right through to the orderThe selected backlight and its price flow into the live quote, the product image, the cart and the manufacturer’s order details.

The AI Sign Designer now accepts PDF uploads, making it even easier for your customers to turn artwork they already have into a custom sign. PDFs are one of the most common formats designers and businesses use for logos and brand artwork, so this removes a frustrating extra step for customers who previously had to convert their files before uploading.

When a customer uploads a PDF, the AI Sign Designer processes it automatically, just like a photo or image, producing a sign-ready preview and the production files you need to fulfil the order.

What’s Changed

• PDF uploads now supportedAlongside JPG, PNG, SVG and photos, customers can now upload PDF artwork directly into the AI Sign Designer
• Automatic conversionUploaded PDFs are turned into a sign-ready design with no extra effort from your customer
• Larger files welcomePDF artwork can be up to 25MB, comfortably covering the high-resolution files designers typically supply
• Clear feedback on problem filesUnreadable or password-protected PDFs are handled gracefully, so customers get a helpful message instead of a broken upload

Sign Customiser now lets you control how the height of a multi-line sign is measured. When a size uses a fixed height, you can decide whether the height you set is the height of each line or the height of the letters themselves — so the measurements your customers see, and the sizes you send for manufacturing, match how you describe your signs.

What’s Changed

• New height measurement choiceFor any size that uses a fixed height, you can now choose between “Line height” and “Letter height” when setting the height per line.
• Letter height adds the line spacingChoose “Letter height” and the gap between lines is added on top of the letters, so a multi-line sign measures taller — and scales slightly wider to stay in proportion — matching what customers expect when they picture the letter size.
• Line height stays the default“Line height” keeps the original behaviour, where the total height is simply the number of lines multiplied by the height per line. Existing sizes are unchanged, so nothing moves unless you opt in.
• Clear impact, explained in the formThe measurement you choose flows through to the size shown in the customiser and the size sent for manufacturing, with an in-app note that letter height can also affect area-based shipping prices.

Sign Customiser now makes sign icons easier for customers to find while they are writing their sign text. The old compact icon control has been replaced with a labelled button and a tidy inline icon grid, so adding a graphic feels like part of the text editing flow instead of a hidden extra step.

What’s Changed

• Clearer icon buttonThe text editor now shows a bordered icon button with a short label, making the icon picker easier to discover
• Merchant-editable wordingStores can customise the button label from the Icons settings page to match their own language and product style
• Inline icon gridIcons now open in a compact panel beneath the text box, keeping the customer in context while they add graphics to their sign
• More stable toolbar layoutThe icon button sits neatly alongside the text controls and avoids overlapping the text field on narrower layouts