8511 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352 Open daily 7 AM to 10 PM Calls and texts: (818) 806-9006
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General contractors, architects, developers, brands

Signs for Contractors, Architects and Multi-Location Brands

Built to your drawings or your brand standard, anywhere in Los Angeles. We prepare shop and permit drawings and make the sign faces, cut letters and printed panels in our Sun Valley shop. A licensed sign-contractor partner installs and files the permits.

8511 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley · Open daily 7 AM–10 PM

Send Drawings for a Bid Call (818) 806-9006

Email PDF, DWG, AI or ZIP files. Brand standards and address lists welcome. We come back with questions before we price.

Email the drawings Who does what

Gold mirror and brushed silver letter A samples with white sides, standing on a table in our Sun Valley shop
Our shop: Face finish samples from our shop. Bring the drawings and compare them in person.

What we do for each kind of team

Same shop, different starting point. Here's what each team usually sends and what comes back.

  • General contractors

    On a tenant improvement or a new build, each sign is usually its own permit and one of the last trades on site. Send the sign sheets from the plan set. We price the fabrication, return shop drawings for approval and set install dates with your superintendent; our licensed partner does the install.
    What an install quote spells out

  • Architects and interior designers

    Send design intent: elevations, finishes, mounting and lighting. Our shop drawings show how each sign is built and fixed to the wall. Where a detail won't build as drawn, like a serif too fine for the router, the shop drawing flags it with an option that will, before anything is cut.
    Lobby and interior signs

  • Developers and owner's reps

    Building ID, monument and pylon signs, lobby letters, directories and parking signs for a new or repositioned property. We read your draft sign criteria against the city's limits, so the criteria don't promise tenants more sign area than the code allows.
    Signs for property managers

  • Multi-location brands and franchise teams

    One brand standard, many addresses. Each site gets a mockup on a photo of that building, sized to what its city and landlord allow. Every site is built from the same approved colors and files.
    How a rollout works
A printed panel with a woven rug pattern lying on the flatbed cutter bed in our Sun Valley shop
Our shopCut files from approved drawings run on machines like this flatbed cutter.

Made in Sun Valley

Fabricated in our own shop

Angels Signs works out of the Angels Print shop at 8511 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley. Approved drawings become cut files and print files here, and the parts come off our CNC router, laser, flatbed cutter and UV and wide-format printers.

  • Made here: printed acrylic, aluminum and PVC panels; routed and laser-cut letters and logos; cut and printed vinyl; channel letter faces, trim cap and LED layout.
  • Scoped per job: channel letter returns, sign cabinets, structures and footings, and the electrical hookup. The bid says how each one is handled.

See every process on our sign manufacturing page.

Visit the Shop

Bring the drawings and see materials in person. Open daily 7 AM–10 PM; call ahead so the right person is there.

From drawings to installed signs: who does what

One contact from the bid to the last sign. Step 1 is the bid form right below; the licensed partner's part is named in your quote.

  1. Send the package

    Drawings or the brand standard, the address list and your bid date.

    Who You

  2. Questions before price

    We read the drawings and ask about what's missing: quantities, wall construction, power at each sign, landlord criteria.

    Who Our shop

  3. Bid per site

    A price for each site and sign. Structural calculations and power to each sign location are marked as included or not. Your quote lists the installer's CSLB license number.

    Who Our shop

  4. Shop drawings for approval

    Size, materials, colors, mounting and lighting for every sign, for you, the architect and the landlord to sign off.

    Who Our shop, approved by you

  5. Permit drawings and filing

    We prepare the permit drawings. Our licensed sign-contractor partner files them with each city that reviews a site.

    Who Our shop and the licensed partner

  6. Fabrication

    Sign faces, cut letters, panels, vinyl and the LED layout are made in our Sun Valley shop to the approved drawings, then checked against them. Returns, cabinets and structures are scoped in the bid.

    Who Our shop

  7. Installation

    The licensed partner installs. Install dates are set with your site team.

    Who Licensed sign-contractor partner

Send drawings for a bid

Tell us about the project here, then email the files. Anything the drawings leave open, we ask about before we price.

The project name, or the brand for a multi-site rollout

You are Optional

Number of sites Optional

Signs in the scope Optional

What you need from us Optional

Questions about the drawings and the bid come to this address.

Then email the drawings to hello@angelssigns.com with the project name in the subject. No payment details.

Rather talk? Call (818) 806-9006 or text a photo. Open daily 7 AM to 10 PM.

Files go by email

The form has no upload. Send files to hello@angelssigns.com with the project name in the subject, or text site photos to the shop.

  • Sign drawings, or the sign sheets from the plan set (PDF, DWG, AI or ZIP)
  • The brand standard or sign program
  • The address list, with the signs at each site
  • Landlord sign criteria for leased sites
  • The bid due date and target install dates

Rolling out a brand across LA locations

The brand standard says what the sign looks like. Each address decides how big it can be. City of LA figures below come from the LADBS Sign Manual: information, not an approval.

  • Sized to each wall

    In the City of LA, a tenant can skip a full sign inventory of the lot by keeping its wall signs to 3 sq ft per foot of its own frontage. Under the standard street-frontage formula, channel letters get 20% more area if the background color doesn't change. Landlord criteria are often tighter. We size the standard to each wall.

  • A mockup per location

    Your sign on a photo of each building, so the brand team and each landlord approve the real facade. Free for business-sign requests: 1 mockup and 1 round of changes per location. Extra rounds are billed.

  • The same colors at every site

    Faces and vinyl for every location are printed and cut in one shop from one set of approved colors. Lit faces shift color at night, so we confirm lit colors with you before anything is cut.

  • One sign schedule

    Every site and every sign with its size in one list, so the brand team, the GC and each landlord work from the same page.

  • Monuments at shared entrances

    A City of LA monument sign stands 8 ft tall at most. All monument signs on a lot share 1.5 sq ft per foot of street frontage, and the face seen from one direction of traffic tops out at 75 sq ft. At a shared entrance, your panel has to fit the share the property has left.

  • Rebrands and refaces

    New faces for existing cabinets and pylon panels when the brand changes. In the City of LA, new copy in the same cabinet needs no permit; if the cabinet comes off, the new sign needs a permit and must meet current code.
    Pylon signs and tenant panels
See It on My Locations

Start with one site photo. Free: 1 mockup + 1 round of changes per location for business-sign requests. Extra rounds are billed.

Sign types in a trade or brand package

Most trade and brand projects mix several of these. Each card opens the sign type in detail.

Sign-type photos are illustrations, not our projects.

Sign permits on commercial projects in LA

In the City of Los Angeles, a new sign, an alteration to an existing sign and a sign removal each need a permit; new copy in the same cabinet does not. Each sign usually gets its own “B” building permit application. Directional and information signs on one lot, window signs on one building, and old wall signs swapped for new ones on one building can share one application.

Most signs also need a sign pre-inspection (SPI) before plan check. Non-digital wall signs more than 2,000 ft from a freeway skip it, and smaller wall signs closer to a freeway can too.

The city wants a plot plan with every existing and proposed sign on the lot, plus elevations with each sign's height and size. On a multi-tenant building, the plan shows each tenant's wall-sign area and frontage width. Freestanding signs, wall signs of 100 sq ft or more, and signs attached to an unreinforced masonry (URM) building also need structural plans and calculations stamped by a licensed engineer or architect. We flag those in the bid.

Only a C-10 or C-45 licensed contractor can get a permit for a lit sign. Our shop draws the permit set; the licensed sign-contractor partner submits it. Other cities work differently: Pasadena, for example, requires a Master Sign Plan when a property has six or more non-residential tenant spaces.

Information, not an approval. Sources: LADBS Sign Manual, P/BC 2023-078, LADBS FAQ on sign pre-inspections and plan check assignment, and City of Pasadena design review, read in November 2026. More in our guide to Los Angeles sign permits.

Check My Address

Which city reviews each site and what it usually asks for. Information, not an approval.

Keep reading

Contractor and brand questions

Still deciding? Call (818) 806-9006 or text a photo and ask.

Can you fabricate to our drawings without installing?
Yes. Fabrication-only jobs are fine: sign faces, cut letters, panels and printed parts built to your drawings for your own installer. Email the drawings and quantities to hello@angelssigns.com. Expect questions on anything the drawings leave open before you get a price.
Who installs, and who files the permits?
A licensed sign-contractor partner. We design, fabricate, prepare the drawings and coordinate. Your quote lists the installer's CSLB license number, and you can look it up on the CSLB Check a License page.
What should a bid package include?
The sign drawings or the sign sheets from the plan set (PDF, DWG, AI or ZIP), the brand standard if there is one, the address list, landlord sign criteria for leased sites and the bid due date. Vector artwork with outlined fonts saves a round of questions.
Do you prepare shop drawings for approval?
Yes. Before fabrication you get drawings showing each sign's size, materials, colors, mounting and lighting, for you, the architect and the landlord to approve. The permit drawings are prepared from the same set. Signs that need stamped structural calculations are flagged in the bid.
Our sites are in several cities. Does that change anything?
Yes. Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena each have their own sign code and review, so a sign sized for a City of LA wall can be too big a few miles away. We check the rules for every address before the sign is sized. City guides: Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena. Information, not an approval.
Can you provide documents for our vendor file?
Installation and permit filing are done by a licensed sign-contractor partner, and your quote lists the installer's CSLB license number, so you can check it before award. List the documents your vendor setup asks for, such as a W-9 or a certificate of insurance, in the bid request, and we answer in writing which ones we can provide before you award the work.

Send the drawings, get a bid built on them

Fill in the bid form, then email the files. We read them, ask what's missing and price each site.
Send Drawings for a Bid Call (818) 806-9006 Text a site photo

Or email PDF, DWG, AI or ZIP files to hello@angelssigns.com with the project name in the subject. Installation and permit filing by a licensed sign-contractor partner.

What to send

  1. Sign drawings, or the sign sheets from the plan set.
  2. The address list, with the signs at each site.
  3. Your bid due date.

Brand standards and landlord criteria help too.

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