Illuminated sign cabinets: wall boxes, canopy signs, refaces.

• Wall cabinets.The standard storefront box, single-faced against the facade, sized to the tenant's lease line and the code's area cap.
• Canopy and soffit cabinets. Mounted to or recessed into a canopy edge, common on fuel stations, banks, and drive-thrus, where the read is from the lane.
• Blade (projecting) cabinets. Double-faced and perpendicular to the wall, for pedestrian corridors and historic main streets where the approach is along the sidewalk, not across the street.
• Tenant panels. The faces in a multi-tenant monument or pylon. Built to a standard size per property so a lease turnover is a panel swap, not a sign project.

A fluorescent cabinet ages predictably. Tubes dim and fail one at a time, ballasts follow, the face lights in stripes, and every failure is a service call. If the box and the face are sound, the fix is a retrofit: strip the lamps and ballasts, mount LED modules to the cabinet interior, wire them to a low-voltage driver, and the same cabinet runs on a fraction of the energy with a face that finally lights evenly. The survey makes or breaks it. Cabinet depth and module spacing have to match, because modules spaced for a deep box will stripe a shallow one. Across a multi-site estate we batch retrofits by region through signage & brand maintenance, folded into the audit pass that documents the rest of the estate's condition.

When the code or the brand calls for individual letters instead of a box, that's channel letters. The freestanding version of the cabinet, on a base or a pole, lives under monument & pylon signs. Face decoration specs come from the ORAFOL® translucent line, and aging fleets of cabinets across an estate are exactly what signage & brand maintenance exists to keep lit. Weighing a relight against a replacement? Start with our LED retrofit guide.