BlueGrey · made in Yorkshire

Software for people who make signs.

BlueGrey builds production tools for the sign trade, starting with Nester, our true-shape nesting plugin for Illustrator. Built by a sign-maker and proven on real jobs before it is sold to yours.

See Nester What we're building

BG-01 · NESTER

Nester: true-shape nesting for Illustrator.

Pack real shapes across every sheet, see the cost before you cut, and stop wasting material. Our flagship, and the tool we built for ourselves first.

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One-time purchase · lifetime licence · free v1 updates

Hero video slot: a real job collapsing into a tight multi-sheet nest, looped

The marketplace

One tool per job. No suites, no filler.

Nester is in testing at The Sign Group now, on live production jobs. The next tools are on the bench, labelled honestly: when a card says in build, it means we are building it, not teasing it.

Nester

In testing Tight nests, less waste Packs real shapes, not bounding boxes, across every sheet, and shows the material cost before you cut. Join the beta

Registration Marks In build Cut contours, set instantly Sets the cut-contour spot colour and drops registration marks ready for your printer-cutter, in one click. Get notified Preflight In build Catch the file faults first Checks sign artwork for the faults that stop a job in production, before it ever gets there. Get notified Vector Tools In scoping The everyday vector kit A set of everyday vector tools for cleaning up and editing rough incoming artwork. Get notified

About BlueGrey

Built by a sign-maker tired of bad software.

BlueGrey is an independent software venture run by a Yorkshire sign-maker. Nester came out of the day job: the nesting tools on the market were slow, fragile, designed for designers instead of shops, or asking for a subscription to do one job. So we built our own, ran it on real production work, and only then put it up for sale. We use what we ship. That's the whole pitch.

From the same benchThe team behind BlueGrey also runs The Sign Group, a working Yorkshire sign company, and built signapps.ai for its customers. Different shopfront, same workshop.

Also from BlueGrey Live

Live dashboards, built to fit.

One screen for your whole business, pulled from the systems you already run. Three live demo dashboards show the shape; the data is made up, the build is real.

See the dashboards Open the live demos

Dashboard hub screenshot · 1600×1000 PNG

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