Menu Board Design: Cafe and Restaurant Menu Boards
Design a wall menu board for a cafe or restaurant: two columns, each item with its price at the right edge, your name and a serif heading, at 900 x 600 mm or your board's size.
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Shop fronts (serif on cream, or gold leaf on black), opening hours, open and closed, WiFi, wayfinding, restrooms, door plates, staff only, a building directory, a clinic, safety signs (no smoking, wet floor, fire exit, CCTV, hand washing, hard hats), reserved parking, a cafe A-board, a menu board, a hanging shop sign, for rent and open house, lightbox, acrylic, totem, welcome and wait to be seated. Each opens at the size it is usually made.
Make it yours
Click any word to type, any shape or symbol to recolour. Your name, logo, phone and colours go in once under Brand. Sign symbols (restroom figures, arrows, exit, no smoking) are in Elements.
Download for the sign shop
A PDF at the sign's real size, a print PDF with 3 mm bleed and crop marks, or EPS and SVG for vinyl cutting and large-format printers.
A cafe menu board that reads from the queue
The menu board is laid out the way wall menus are read from a queue: your name in spaced capitals, Menu in a serif, then two columns, Coffee and Food, each item with its price at the right edge so the eye runs straight down the prices. It is 900 x 600 mm, a common board size.
Keep it to what fits
Five to eight items a column read in one glance from three metres. Move the rest to a printed menu on the counter, or add a second board.
Prices without symbols
Leaving the currency sign off the prices is a common menu habit; it keeps the column clean. Type it in if your rules require it.
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Why it matters
Real sign sizes
Door plates, 6 x 9 in restroom signs, 18 x 24 in yard signs, 24 x 36 in A-boards, 900 x 300 mm wayfinding blades, 2400 x 600 mm shop fronts and 600 x 1800 mm totems.
Files a sign shop can use
Vector PDF, EPS and SVG keep edges sharp at any size; the print PDF has bleed and crop marks.
Bold symbols
Restroom figures, accessible, arrows, exit, no smoking, warning, slippery floor, CCTV, hand washing, hard hat, no entry, first aid, parking and more, drawn in the solid style of public signs.
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Questions
Can I use it as a price list for a salon or a shop?
Yes: rename the columns and items, for example Cuts and Colour, with each price at the right.
What size should a menu board be?
900 x 600 mm and 1200 x 800 mm are common for walls; A1 and A2 for smaller cafes. Change the size at the top.
What file does a sign shop need?
A vector PDF, EPS or SVG at the sign's real size. For a printed panel ask whether they want bleed (the print PDF adds 3 mm); for cut vinyl letters, send the SVG or EPS.
How big should the letters be?
A common sign-trade rule is 1 inch of letter height for every 10 feet people read it from (about 25 mm per 3 m). A shop front read from across the street needs letters 150 mm or taller.
Can I put my logo and a QR code on a sign?
Yes. Your logo goes in under Brand or from Uploads. Make a QR code in the QR code generator, download the PNG or SVG and add it from Uploads.
Is the sign maker free?
Yes, converting is free: the conversion and checking the result cost nothing, and the work runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded. The side-by-side preview on the converter pages comes with a free account. Saving the finished file is paid: $3.49 for one file ($3.99 for a technical file such as DXF, G-code, STL or embroidery) with no account needed, or included in a plan from $6.99 a month. Saving the print file is paid: one file without an account, or included in a plan.