Mostly black marquee

[s_busby_uk]

My design is very minimal - 95% black with lettering in a white font with a few thin white lines - do I want light to be able to come through the black? I know this is partially personal preference, but not sure what the "done thing" is...

[Monkeyvoodoo]

i would do it by masking off the parts that you want to the light to go through then spray with opaque black. should be enough to block off unwanted light.

[ChanceKJ]

I've been thinking about how to do this too. I'm gonna test with mine when I get it printed. I know exactly what your thinking here.  Maybe if I used a thin cellophane material behind my marquee plexi and sprayed that to test light bleed on black before spraying the actual plexi back first.

[s_busby_uk]

Hmm, I may not have been that clear in my OP. I'm asking if I'm supposed to let the light through or not or if I should block it out as much as I can. How to block it out would be a possible follow-up question!

[ChanceKJ]

I don't think you should or shouldn't do anything. It's going to be what you want overall.

Like my Marquee for my Flynn's build. the Left side of it is black. I'm wondering if i shouldn't black that out completely, or give it that dark backlit glow. Really depends on what will look better.

At the end of the day you can make your marquee look however you want. Backlit, non-lit. Hell, i'm currently trying to figure out if i can use Neon or Nixie tubes for the marque on one of my projects. And thats definitely not to anyones standards or rules but my own.

[eds1275]

Mine is also mostly black and it sort of glows a bit but you can't really tell because the whites are so bright. I wouldn't make this an issue unless you know for sure you want them black as night.

[mgb]

It seems that some get a littke anal about the black in a marquee being true bkack and not letting light through and that's fine as its personal taste. But for me, my marquee has a god deal of black and I took no other action other than having the artwork printed from gameongrafix. The black glows a little but otherwise looks great.

[Le Chuck]

On the back paint the black areas with adhesive and apply foil a bit at a time. Like you're doing gold leaf - only carefuller. No light shall bleed through evar!!

lol, just stick it in there, it'll look fine with some bleed