5 Best Signage Makers in Singapore (August 2026)

Four things to settle before anyone quotes you for a sign.

• You need a BCA licence for an outdoor sign. Outdoor advertising signs and signboards are licensed by the Building and Construction Authority, and applications go through its online Advertising Licence System, which also lets you track status. Your sign has to meet the requirements on height, size, location and permits before the application goes in, which is why the design should be checked against them rather than drawn first and checked later.
• URA caps the coverage, so design to the limit. On modern commercial facades, total signboard coverage is capped at 15 square metres or 15 percent, and physical advertisement heights generally cannot exceed 15 vertical metres. A designer who has not been told this will happily produce something larger, and you will pay for the redesign.
• Location changes the process. Where a proposal needs URA evaluation, that typically adds around two weeks. Depending on the address, additional approvals may be required from the Land Transport Authority, the Singapore Land Authority or the Orchard Road Business Association. None of that is visible from a price list, and all of it is visible to a signmaker who works in your area.
• The landlord is a separate gate. Building owners and mall management run their own signage rules on size, position, illumination hours, materials and sometimes even colour, and they enforce them independently of any licence. Get the landlord's written approval and the authority approval, in that order, because there is no point licensing something your lease will not permit.

The practical consequence for choosing a supplier is straightforward: prefer a signmaker who submits. Several companies on this page hold the relevant licences and handle the BCA and URA process on your behalf, which turns a compliance problem into a line item. A fabricator who hands you a beautiful sign and a shrug about paperwork has left the hardest part with you.

If you are fitting out a shop, the sign is one of several things being commissioned at once. My guides to the best printing services in Singapore and the best commercial interior design firms in Singapore cover the two neighbouring decisions, and for banners and exhibition displays rather than a fixed shopfront sign, the large-format specialists in the printing guide are the right call.

Zeroboard treats BCA and URA licence submissions as a named service rather than something you are left to work out, and that combination of fabrication plus paperwork is the reason it goes first.

The value is in sequencing. A company that handles submissions has an interest in checking your design against the rules before it fabricates, because it is the one that has to get the approval. A pure fabricator has the opposite incentive: it gets paid for the sign either way. That difference decides whether you find out about the 15 square metre cap at the design stage or after a sign is sitting in a workshop.

Ask two things when you brief them. Whether the quote includes the submission or bills it separately, and what happens if the application is rejected and the design has to change. A supplier with a clear answer to the second question has been through it.

Website: zeroboard.com.sg
Handles: BCA and URA licence submissions alongside fabrication
Ask: Whether submission is in the quote, and what happens on rejection
Best for: A sign that needs approving as well as making

Advert&Signs offers BCA signage licence work and publishes a clear account of how URA, BCA and landlord approvals fit together, which is genuinely more useful than most of what is written about this.

The three-way structure is the thing most business owners get wrong. BCA licenses the sign as a structure. URA governs what the facade may carry, which is where the 15 square metre and 15 percent caps live. The landlord has a private contractual say that is independent of both. All three have to line up, and clearing one tells you nothing about the others.

Read their material before your first meeting with anyone, including them. Walking into a signage conversation already knowing that URA caps coverage and that your landlord is a separate approval will save you a fortnight of discovering it in the wrong order.

Website: advertandsigns.com
Handles: BCA signage licence applications
Notable: Publishes how URA, BCA and landlord approvals interact
Best for: Understanding the process before you commission anything

GetNoticed publishes signage resources and guides alongside its fabrication work, which puts it in a useful position for a business doing this for the first time.

A first shopfront sign involves decisions nobody has had to make before. Illuminated or not, and if illuminated, front-lit channel letters, back-lit halo lettering or a lightbox. Acrylic or metal face. How it reads at night, from across the road, and at the angle people actually approach from. Those are design questions with cost consequences, and a supplier that has written them down is easier to have the conversation with.

One practical point for any first sign: illuminated signage draws power and often has permitted illumination hours set by the building or the authority. Confirm both the electrical supply and the hours before you specify lighting, because retrofitting power to a sign is far more disruptive than including it.

Website: getnoticed.sg
Notable: Publishes signage guides and resources
Confirm early: Power supply and permitted illumination hours
Best for: A first shopfront sign, where the options are unfamiliar

SignageMaker.sg covers general signage fabrication and addresses licensing in its published FAQs, which makes it a sensible pick for a conventional shop or office sign without complications.

Plenty of signage is genuinely straightforward: a shop unit inside a mall with an existing sign box, an office suite needing a lobby sign and a door plate, or a replacement for something that has faded. Those jobs do not need a specialist consultancy, and paying for one is not a saving.

The test for whether your job is straightforward is simple. Is the sign going in a position where a sign already exists, at the same size, using the same mounting and the same power? If yes, the process is usually much shorter. If any of those is changing, treat it as a new sign and go back to the licence question.

Website: signagemaker.sg
Covers: General signage fabrication, with licensing addressed in its FAQs
Rule of thumb: Same position, size, mounting and power usually means a shorter process
Best for: Conventional shop and office signage

Aman Engineering approaches signage from the submission and engineering side, which is the right lens once a sign gets large or is mounted onto a building rather than into an existing frame.

Above a certain size a sign stops being a graphic and becomes a structure that has to be fixed to a facade, carry its own weight, resist wind load and be safely accessible for maintenance. That is engineering work, and the approval process reflects it. A large elevated sign is a very different submission from a vinyl panel in an existing shop box.

If your project involves a rooftop sign, a projecting sign over a walkway, anything at height, or a sign being fixed to a facade that has never carried one, start with a company that thinks structurally. Retrofitting engineering onto a design that assumed none is the most expensive way to arrive at the same sign.

Website: amanengineering.com.sg
Approach: Signage from the engineering and submission side
Relevant when: Rooftop, projecting, elevated or facade-mounted signs
Best for: Signage large enough to be a structure

For an outdoor advertising sign or signboard, yes. The Building and Construction Authority licenses them, and applications are made through its online Advertising Licence System, which also lets you track the status of a submission. The sign must meet requirements on height, size, location and permits before you apply.

The Urban Redevelopment Authority governs what the facade may carry. On modern commercial facades, total signboard coverage is capped at 15 square metres or 15 percent, and physical advertisement heights generally cannot exceed 15 vertical metres. Where a proposal needs URA evaluation, expect roughly two additional weeks in the timeline. Depending on the location, LTA, SLA or the Orchard Road Business Association may also need to be involved.

And separately from all of that, your landlord or mall management will have its own rules on size, position, illumination hours and materials. Authority approval does not override a lease, and a landlord approval is not a licence. You need both, and the cheapest way to get them is to choose a signmaker who submits on your behalf and checks the design against the limits before anything is fabricated.

The main options are a lightbox, front-lit channel letters, back-lit halo lettering and non-illuminated 3D lettering, and the right one depends on how your shopfront is approached and lit rather than on taste alone.

A lightbox is a single illuminated panel: bright, even, economical and the workhorse of most malls and shop units. Front-lit channel letters are individual illuminated letters, which read as more considered and cost more to make and mount. Back-lit halo lettering throws light onto the wall behind the letters, which looks excellent against a clean facade and disappears against a busy one. Non-illuminated 3D lettering depends entirely on ambient light, so it works in a well-lit mall corridor and fails on a dim street.

Before deciding, stand where your customers will actually stand, at the time of day they will actually be there, and look. Sign choices are usually made in a meeting room from a rendering, and the render never shows the awning that shades the facade, the tree in front of the unit, or the fact that most of your trade arrives after dark.

Choose a signmaker who submits. Zeroboard handles BCA and URA submissions alongside fabrication, which aligns its interests with yours: it has to get the approval, so it checks the design against the rules first. Advert&Signs is the other licence-handling option, and its published explanation of how URA, BCA and landlord approvals interact is worth reading before you speak to anybody.

For a first shopfront where the options are unfamiliar, GetNoticed, and confirm the power supply and permitted illumination hours early. For a conventional shop or office sign replacing something that already exists, SignageMaker.sg is proportionate. And once the sign is large enough to be a structure, mounted to a facade, projecting or at height, Aman Engineering.

The sequence that saves the most money is landlord approval, then design against the URA caps, then BCA licence, then fabrication. Every expensive signage story I have heard runs that list backwards.

A closing note for the trade. This category has an unusual number of dead websites, and several signage companies that other guides still name no longer resolve at all, which is a hard look for businesses whose product is visibility. Meanwhile a shop owner fitting out a new unit is searching at eleven at night with a lease already signed. The company whose site explains the licence process and shows real shopfronts wins that enquiry. If your website is the weak link, that is fixable, and it happens to be my day job. Take a look at my web design services in Singapore, or get a quote and I will tell you honestly what would help.