Event sign maker

How it prints

The main words are set first, as large as they fit on up to three lines, and the lines above and below are kept to well under half their size so the sign always reads main words first. Lettering is drawn as shapes rather than typed text, so it prints crisp on any printer. A flat sign fills one sheet: A4 is 297 by 210 mm and A3 is 420 by 297 mm, either way up. A3 is twice the area of A4 and needs A3 paper or a print shop; the sheet says so in its footer. A folded table tent is a landscape A4 sheet folded in half along a dashed line, each side 297 by 105 mm, with the back printed upside down so the words read the right way up from both sides of a table.

There are four borders: a single rounded line, a double line, a fine frame with cut-in corners and a small diamond in each corner, or none. An arrow is drawn as one bold shape: on a wide sign a left or right arrow sits beside the words, and on a tall sign it takes its own space below them; an up arrow, for straight on, sits above. Each sign is one colour, or black for printing on coloured or kraft card. Everything stays at least 10 mm inside the paper edge, so a home printer does not clip the border.