Individually cut words, letters, numbers and logo shapes for interior walls. Use them for a quote across a boardroom wall, a company name behind reception, a department name above a doorway, or values and wayfinding text down a corridor. Because every shape is cut to its own outline there is no panel and no visible background — what ends up on the wall is the artwork and nothing else.

Worth being plain about the name. This is not traditional plotter-cut solid-colour film. Your artwork is printed in full colour onto white self-adhesive vinyl and then contour cut to the outline of each letter or shape. Gradients, photographs, multi-colour logos and fine detail are all available as a result — but the film under the ink is opaque white, so anything left unprinted inside a shape reads as white, not as the wall behind it.

Two films to choose from, both opaque white print vinyls. 3M-IJ35 is the everyday choice for interior lettering on smooth painted walls. 3M-IJ175 is the heavier-duty cast film, worth the difference where the lettering has to stay put for years, gets cleaned or handled, or sits in strong daylight from nearby glass.

Lamination is offered in gloss, matte, optically clear, dry erase or anti-graffiti. On wall lettering matte is usually the right call: it kills the reflections that overhead lighting throws across a glossy face and makes the cut edges far less obvious. Contour cut is the setting that produces the individual letter shapes — Standard suits straightforward type, Simple and Complex cover progressively more intricate outlines.

Best on smooth, sealed, fully cured paint. Textured or orange-peel walls, bare drywall, brick and unsealed plaster will not hold an adhesive film reliably, and lettering feels that sooner than a solid graphic does because so much of it is edge. Removal is usually clean from sound paintwork, but no adhesive vinyl can be guaranteed paint-safe — on fresh paint, on paint over a poorly prepared surface, or after several years up, expect the possibility of touch-up. On a wall you cannot repaint, a small test piece first is cheap insurance.

Order by entering the overall width and height of the area the lettering occupies; that is what the price is calculated from, rather than the cut-out shapes alone. Supplied cut to shape and ready to apply. Installation is not included.