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School AchievementsThe lettering on this school honour board, to display pupils names and recognise achievements, has been made from a self adhesive foil simulating gold leaf. It is an effective substitute for gold leaf and offers a lower cost board and a relatively simple means of updating the board with the names of your pupils and their most recent achievements
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Portable
Glass or Perspex
Honours BoardsYou don't have to follow tradition. Honours boards can be produced using glass or silica acrylic.
This contemporary honour board has been designed to be portable but being made from glass and aluminium will last as long as
a traditionally made wooden honour board. Clear Perspex is a much lighter material but is more easily scratched than glass
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Our Location
The Brow, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 6LN - and - Priory Hill, Brecon, Powys, Wales
If you need more information telephone Steve or Tess:
Brighton 01273 306877
Honours Boards in Traditional or Contemporary Materials
- Honours Boards for Clubs -
- Custom made signs can be produced in any shape or size that you prefer. The boards can be framed or unframed with the lettering in gold leaf or any colour of your choice.
- Honours Boards for Associations -
- Updating of Honours Boards as requested. Lettering can be painted by hand or produced as self adhesive lettering for easy and consistent updates.
We produce contemporary designs and traditional honours boards.
- Company Honours Boards -
- We can include, and are very good at graphics and illustrations such as a crest, coat-of-arms, company logo or any other image that you require either digitally printed or painted by hand.
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Oak Veneered
School Honours BoardThis honour board recognises the captains of cricket at the Cathedral School in Llandaff, Cardiff, was one of a series of eight similar honour boards that we produced to acknowledge the Captains of all of the sports played by the school.
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School Crests, Badges and LogosCathedral School's crest is very complex and was produced using seven layers of material including two golds of different textures.
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Waterinbury
Village Hall
Acknowledging SupportThis oak veneered board is one of two supplied to Wateringbury Village Hall to acknowledge the help and support offered by many people, businesses and organisations to aid this long term project. The honour boards were stained to a medium tone to provide sufficient contrast for the gold lettering to show but the edge has a contrasting colour of natural oak to match the
dominant colour of the timber used within the building.
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Military
Honour Boards
Joint Medical CommandWe produced three honour boards for the Joint Medical Command
which is a joint service agency serving the British Army, Air Force and Navy
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St.Peter's Church
Bryngwyn Wales
Rectors & Curates
St.Peter's Church, Bryngwyn is part of the Raglan group of parishes in wales.
This board was commissioned by a lady to commemorate her husband, a former reader at this church
This board recording the rectors and curates from the 14th century was produced using a dark stained oak veneer, a softwood pine timber moulding has been used to frame the board. This is a less expensive alternative to a solid oak moulding. We will quote you for both types of framing if you wish |
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Hamilton Park Racecourse
Winners Board
John Smiths Stewards CupFraming a board with a curved edge takes a long time and is relatively costly. The frame has been finished in a slightly darker and redder colour with the addition of a 10mm thick cream borderline.
If you want a board that is curved and framed, we'll also supply you with a cost for an unframed board with a contrasting edging colour and borderline as shown further down the page on your right, produced for Patcham High School in Brighton
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Gold Leaf Honour BoardsThis honour board produced for the Mumbles Rowing Club, has been lettered by hand using best English 23.5 carat gold leaf. The timber is an oak veneered plywood, stained and varnished to fill the grain. |
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Golf Club Honour BoardsThis golf club trophy board has been produced using an oak veneered board with solid oak framing and dark brown self adhesive lettering
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St Bedes
Hockey CaptainsThis honour board is produced from a quarter cut oak veneer, solid oak mouldings and fluted columns to frame the display of the Hockey captains' names of St Bedes Grammar School in Manchester
The frame is very similar to the golf captains board above and the Harlequins board below.
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English Institute of Sport
Competition Winners
A large honour board, 2.5 X 1.5 metres but only 3mm thick, thus relatively light but very durable. The English Institute of Sport provides athletes with training facilities. Motivation is a vital factor in athletics, this board already contains many well known names, it is hoped that younger athletes will be inspired to try and get their names onto the board in the run up to the Olympic Games in Beijing and London 2012
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Donar BoardsProduced using an ash veneer with a softwood timber frame for the Queen Alexandra Hospital Home in Worthing, Sussex.
The colour is natural |
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Model Citizens
Head Boys Head GirlsProduced for the Lilian Baylis Technology School in London, this 2 metre high board is 19mm thick and very heavy, you need to carefully consider your fixing methods and position of the board particularly if fixing the sign to partition types of walls |
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Cricket Club Honour Boards
President & ChairmanActon Cricket Club commissioned an honour board using an ash veneer with matching framing colour dyed to match clubhouse decor and furniture.
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North Middlesex Cricket Club
Colts Honours & AchievementsThis oak honour board with a maroon border colour was produced for North Middlesex Cricket Club. It shows a horizontal crown grain stained to a medium depth.
This board measures 1230mm X 610mm X 19mm ( Approx 4' X 2' X 3/4") |
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Harlequins Rugby Football Club
Captains since 1868
This board, with a solid oak frame, measures 1860mm X 900mm ( Approx 6' X 3') it is large enough to display the names of all Harlequin captains since 1868 and still have room left for future captains names for about 25 years.
The Harlequins Rugby Football Club ground in just across the road from Twickenham Stadium |
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Trinity Comprehensive School
Bexley KentBeech veneered panels forming a triptych to display the school badge (logo), names of head boys and girls on the centre panel,
with special awards and other achievements shown on the other two panesls.
The three boards together measure 1600mm at the highest point by 2200mm wide X 19mm thick |
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Logos Crests BadgesYour organisation's logo, crest or coat of arms can be produced in may ways. For further information scroll to the foot of the page or click on the school logo to your left
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Schools
Head Girls Head BoysThis school honour board listing head girls and boys was produced for Patcham High School in Brighton, The shape and colour scheme provide a more contemorary feel but still has enough gravitas when compared to the more traditional gold lettering on a dark board |
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Honour Boards - Modern & Traditional Materials CombinedUsing oak veneered stained dark is long standing favourite but other wood finishes for honour boards can produce a contemporary feel whist maintaining tradition. This light Ash finish provides a base for a clear glass panel, the lettering is on the reverse of the glass.
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Contemporary Glass Honours BoardsHonours boards can be produced incorporating toughened glass or silica acrylic. Silica acrylic is like a clear Perspex and simulates the look of glass almost perfectly including the green looking edge that you see in glass.
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London Livery Companies
Worshipful Company of Actuaries
List of Masters
This honour board framed in solid oak lists the Masters of The Worshipful Company of Actuaries, one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
The list of Masters names was produced using English gold leaf.
All other lettering and graphics have been produced using traditional hand painted signwriting and gilding methods.
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Livery Company Coat of ArmsA hand painted coat of arms awarded to the Worshipful Company of Actuaries. Painted in oils and gold leaf. The arms are shown in context on the honour board shown to your left
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Masonic Lodge Regalia
Roll of Honour
A board showing the Roll of Worshipful Masters produced for Chanctonbury Masonic Lodge in Sussex.
The lettering and graphics have been produced using traditional hand painted signwriting and gilding for the scroll, lodge name and title.
The names have been cut from self adhesive simulated gold leaf which enables easy and economical annual updating of names
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Freemasonry Name BoardsThe original lodge sign had run out of space for new names after sixty years. We produced a new board in the style and dimensions of the original including reproduction of the original oak mouldings
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What Next?
The general process is for you tell us how many names, or years, need to go onto your honours board, what the heading or title is, and would you require any logo, crest or other illustration displayed on the honours board.
We will then prepare a scale drawing for you of your proposed honours board.
At this stage the two most important pieces of information that we need from you is; who has got the longest name?
The longest name dictates the maximum size or height that the lettering can be,
so the shortest name has to be the same size of lettering as the longest name.
Next in importance is the size of the space that you have available for your honour board.
The space may be tall and thin or short and wide, we can produce honour boards to fit any space available
but the finished size of the honours board dictates the size of everything within it.
You may know exactly what you want; the colour of the lettering, the lettering font style and the exact size of the letters, but the probability is that only have a vague idea, the biggest problem for you is knowing what size the lettering should be to fit the space available for the wording on your honours board.
To make this as easy and as accurate for you as possible.
What you need to do is give us as much information about your proposed honour board as possible. Most importantly is the wording and the size of the space where the lettering is going. We can then work out how big or small the lettering can be to best fit the space. Let us know if you prefer measurements in feet and inches, metric or both.
We will email or post a scale drawing of your honour board, and an estimated cost. When you see the drawing you'll be able to check the spelling as well as see if the sign looks right. It doesn't cost you anything up to this point.
A few revisions and alternatives will probably be necessary.
If and when we agree prices, sizes and all other details we would ask you to pay in advance for your honours board.
Depending upon its complexity and how busy we are, delivery would then be 2 to 4 weeks but could be longer if there is a lot of hand produced lettering.
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College Honor Boards - University Honours Boards
Honour has been spelt Honor for the American market, we're very happy to supply customers in the US
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University & School Honour Boards
The University of Westminster require a vibrant and contemporary feel for their Sabbatical Officers
honours board, so a deep red background with self adhesive white sans serif lettering.
Each year they email a request for further names which are supplied to them ready to apply, so the honour board is easy to update.
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Choosing honour board colours
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Sufficient color contrast for your honours board
You can have any colour that you prefer, you need to be sure that you sufficient contrast between the lettering and the background so that the information can be easily read.
Varying degrees of contrast are demonstrated in the image below
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Honours Board Shapes and Sizes
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A wide range of standard and bespoke honours board shapes
As with colours, you can have any shape board that you prefer, a few typical shapes are suggested below.
Honour boards can be supplied framed or unframed. Framing can be simple or orante, traditional, of period design or contemporary.
All of our work is bespoke and any individual requirement can be met.
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Honours Boards Lettering Styles
The selection shown here represents the broad categories so that you can choose a style that gives us an idea of what you want.
As there are many thousands of font variations of the illustrated basic styles, and many novelty, cranky or fashion font faces available, we only endeavour to show a few here.
We can produce honours boards using any style of lettering that you want, we have over 10,000 fonts in stock.
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Most Appropriate Lettering Styles for Honour Boards
The fonts shown above are fine for headings and decorative effect here and there but for the bulk of the lettering it is best to use the fonts shown on your right. They simulate hand produced honours board lettering closely, are easy to read and robust. Very delicate lettering is easily damaged and takes longer to produce.
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Illustrated Honours Boards
Most clubs, associations, companies, schools and universities use a logo, crest or coat of arms as part of their identity, there is often a long and interesting history associated with the image. If you would like to incorporate a crest, emblem, logo or other image into your honours board, we can offer you traditional hand painted work to reproduce your image or digitally printed self adhesive versions |
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Heraldry & Honour Boards
We also operate as heraldic artists
and traditional signwriters and painters. Any image can be incorporated into your honour board.
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Logo, Crests & Coat of Arms
If you can't supply us with high quality artwork from which we can reproduce your crest or logo, we can produce this for you. The cricket club logo shown here was drawn by us as a vector outline to provide a cutting template. The only visual referance that we could obtain from our client was a black and white photocopy of an embroidered T-shirt badge |
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Complex Emblems
The logo of the Local Land Charges Institute was extremely fiddly. Although we were provided with a high resolution TIFF image, the client decided that a digital print would be of inferior quality. Digital prints offer inferior lightfast qualities compared to cut vinyls and foils or paint. The colours are also less vibrant particulary when gold colour is required
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Logo, Crests & Coat of Arms
This regimental crest produced for the MoD's Joint Medical Command is an extreme example of how small and intricate vector graphics can be.
The smallest components in the design are only one millimetre across.
It takes many hours using suregeon's magnification lenses to cut, weed and apply each colour, it's expensive but produces a great finished job.
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Complex Emblems
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