BD Signs — Your brand, built for business BD Signs — Your brand, built for business
Sign makers serving Leeds

Signage in Leeds,
for a city centre with high standards.

Leeds has spent twenty years raising the standard of its frontages, and the arcades set a bar that most of the country does not reach. A sign that would pass unnoticed elsewhere looks thin on Briggate.

Seventy-two miles up the M1 — a straight run, and a regular one.

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  • Free survey
  • Made in our own factory
  • Fitted by our own teams
George's Tradition built-up window lettering, installed by BD Signs
Fillets illuminated shopfront fascia lit at night The Hoxton Kitchen circular projecting light box

72 miles

From our factory to Leeds

4,500+

Shops on our books

25 years

As BD Signs

3,500 sq ft

Showroom you can walk round

Leeds streets

One city, several different signs.

The Victoria Quarter and the County and Thornton's arcades are Victorian, ornate and closely controlled — that is fine metalwork, gilded glass and hand-made brackets, not a moulded plastic box. Call Lane and the Corn Exchange end is independent and evening-led, where lit letters and neon-effect LED earn their money after dark. Headingley, Chapel Allerton and Horsforth are neighbourhood high streets that trade all day and need to read in both.

We make in acrylic, aluminium, brass and stainless, and we still hand-paint. That range matters in Leeds because the right answer changes street by street. We survey, design, fabricate in Nottingham and bring our own fitters up — including the access equipment, which on Briggate is half the job.

We work across Leeds and the rest of West Yorkshire. If your site is somewhere else, ask — we manufacture in Nottingham and install UK-wide.

Why businesses here use us

How we help Leeds businesses

Two things matter when you buy a sign. That it gets you noticed, and that it still looks like that in ten years. Most of what separates a good sign from a cheap one is in the parts you never see — the gauge of the metal, the weld, the fixings and the lamps. Here is how that plays out on a Leeds frontage.

Stands out after dark, holds up by day

Call Lane and the Corn Exchange end earn their money in the evening, so lit letters and LED neon do the heavy work. But the same frontage is looked at all morning, so it has to have shape and colour unlit too. Designing only for the night-time photograph is a common and expensive mistake.

Fine metalwork for the arcades

The Victoria Quarter and the County and Thornton's arcades are listed Victorian interiors, and a moulded plastic box looks exactly as cheap as it is in there. Brass, gilded glass and hand-made brackets, fixed into existing mortar lines. Slower, more skilled, and right for the building.

LED neon that will not shatter

We build neon effect in acrylic rather than glass gas tube — safer above a busy bar, a fraction of the running cost, and it does not fail as a whole sign when one section goes. It also keeps its colour, which old tube does not.

Fitted by the people who made it

Our own teams come up the M1 with our own access equipment. A sign is only as good as the last hour of the job, and a subcontractor who has never seen the drawings is where a well-made sign gets hung a degree out and drilled through the wrong face.

Exterior signage

Shop front signs that work outside

Exterior signage takes the weather, the light and the traffic. Everything here is built for permanent outdoor use, weather-sealed and LED-lit, and fixed by our own installation teams — illuminated fascias, built-up letters, light box trays, projecting signs and roadside totems.

Interior signage

Interior signs that keep them in

The sign gets them through the door. What happens next decides what they spend. Interior signage, wall graphics and counter branding, specified as one scheme so the finishes match the frontage rather than nearly matching it.

Past the frontage

A customer decides three times.

On the pavement, at the door, and at the counter. Most suppliers only help you with the first one. We design the whole journey, and the signage is where it starts.

  1. 1

    On the pavement

    The fascia, the projecting sign and the window. Two seconds to say who you are and what you sell.

    Built-up letters
  2. 2

    At the door

    Entrance graphics, opening hours, the handrail. Small things that decide whether somebody actually comes in.

    Interior signage
  3. 3

    Inside the room

    Wall graphics and counter branding that hold the scheme together once they are through the door.

    Counter branding
  4. 4

    At the counter

    The menu decides what they spend. Lit boards or digital screens, built around margin rather than price order.

    Menu systems
How a Leeds sign gets made

Survey, design, manufacture, fit.

Four stages, one company, one price. Nobody is sub-contracted in the middle of it, which is why we can give you a date and keep it — including in Leeds.

  1. 1

    Survey

    We come to you in Leeds. Measure the fascia, check the fixings and the power, photograph the site, and look at the street it trades on. It costs you nothing.

  2. 2

    Design

    Our designers draw it and visualise it on your building, so you see the sign on your frontage before it is made. We keep designing until you are happy.

  3. 3

    Manufacture

    Made in our own factory — routing, welding, spraying and LED build. The quality is ours to get right rather than a supplier's.

  4. 4

    Installation

    Our own fitters install it, connect it and clear up. Access equipment included, electrics tested and signed off.

Got a frontage in Leeds?

Send us a photo of it and the name above the door. We will tell you what the building will take and what it costs.

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Brands we make signs for

Heavenly Desserts FSW Churchill's Fish & Chips Deep Blue Fish & Chips The Chesterford Group fishnchickn Bankers Fish & Chips The Bay Fish & Chips George's Tradition Chesters Fish Bits Lesley Greaves Yiayia G's Greek Grill

Signage for Pret A Manger, Wendy's, Heavenly Desserts, Sushi Mania, FSW and Harry Ramsden's — and for several thousand family businesses, who get the same drawings, the same factory and the same fitters.

Leeds signage FAQ

Questions we get asked in Leeds

Do you actually install in Leeds, or subcontract it?

Our own teams, with our own access equipment. We do not hand the job to a local subcontractor who has never seen the drawings — that is exactly where installations go wrong, and it is not something you should have to check.

Can you sign a unit in the Victoria Quarter or the arcades?

Yes. Those are listed Victorian interiors, so the work tends to be hand-made rather than illuminated — gilded glass, painted timber, fine metal brackets and fixings into existing mortar lines. It is slower and more skilled work, and it is what looks right in there. Expect listed building consent to be part of the job.

Do you make neon-effect signs for bars and restaurants?

Regularly — LED neon in acrylic rather than glass gas tube, so it is safer, cheaper to run and will not shatter. It photographs extremely well, which around Call Lane is a genuine part of the return.

How does a Leeds job work if you are based in Nottingham?

The same way a Nottingham one does. We survey the site, design and price the whole job as one figure, manufacture it in our factory and bring it up the M1 to fit. You deal with the same people from survey to sign-off.

Elsewhere

Other cities we make signs for

Signage Nottingham Our home city Signage Derby 16 miles — about 30 minutes Signage Leicester 27 miles — about 40 minutes Signage Sheffield 40 miles — about 50 minutes Signage Lincoln 40 miles — about an hour Signage Birmingham 50 miles — about an hour

We manufacture in Nottingham and install UK-wide, so this list is where we work most, not the limit of it. If your site is somewhere else, ask.

Client testimonials

What our customers say

Reviews on Google
“We recently used BD Signs for digital signage in our fish and chip takeaway and couldn't be happier with the result. From the first conversation, when they squeezed us in when we drove down without an appointment, through to installation.”
N Nicola Atkinson Google review
“A big thank you to the team at BD Signs for all your hard work with our new Digital Menu System. We have 6 screens in total, and a bespoke display box with our branding. I'm quite fussy and particular, and these guys were very helpful from start to finish! Very passionate and customer focused company. Highly recommend!!!”
P Phil Mellon Google review
“Just want to rate George from tech support's service as a 5. Whenever I get through to him he goes above and beyond to support and get the problem sorted quickly and efficiently, he keeps us informed throughout of the problem and where we are with the fix. Great customer service.”
L Lauren Bannister Google review
“Used BD Signs Design and Print services to design a new logo for my company and to design and print some large labels to use on my jobs. Professional service from start to finish. Highly recommended.”
R Richard Ashwell Google review
“Excellent service as always. Friendly staff. Highly recommend.”
G Gracey Google review
“Excellent service as normal — have used BD Signs for the last 20 years and they have always been very helpful and delivered on time and on price!”
A Anton Google review
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Come and see us.

Bring a photo of your frontage, or a problem you have been putting off for three years. We will survey the site, design it properly, and quote the whole job as one price.

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Reviews on Google

Or email info@bdsigns.co.uk — we answer everything the same working day.