Vintage But Fancy Metal Signs

Metal Signs can be found on most lawns in the neighborhood. The are mostly made up from bronze, brass, aluminum, and etc. Check out the video above to see samples of these kinds of signage displays.

How to Make Signs Part 5 - Parallel Sign Lettering

Part 5 will specifically deal with parallel signs. All of the topics relate back to the issue of your sign being seen, so color is important, and so is the size, how fast traffic passes your business, and how much time a driver has to view your sign.

It is not difficult to imagine that parallel signs are more difficult to see than are perpendicular signs, as they’re not jumping out in front of you like the perpendicular signs do. However, imagination is worth only so much, so the USSC (United States Sign Council) set out to make scientific formulas and equations that would give us a mathematical model to work with.

It is often virtually impossible to see some signs because of their orientation, especially at longer distances, at higher speeds, and with multiple lanes of traffic.

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How to Make Signs Part 4 - Calculating the Area of Lettering

In this section, Part 4 of this series, we’ll start by looking at more precise calculations for determining the area needed for a sign or banner.

Personally, I am not a big fan of algebra, but sometimes the easiest way to calculate what the Area of a sign (Asign) is by using one, especially if someone else has already done the work to come up with it, which, in our case, the USSC has already done for us.

The only part of the equation that is left out is the negative space calculation, which is fixed at a 40/60 ratio with the copy area, or Copy Area x 1.5. Note that number rounding – which I do frequently – will yield a slight variance in copy area/negative space.

To read more of this and view image presentations about this, go here: https://www.visigraph.com/signs/part-4-the-science-of-outdoor-signs-banners/.

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How to Make Signs Part 3 - Measuring the Copy Area

As we have talked about in parts one and two in this article, just throwing a banner up on a wall or a sign on a pole could be some of the worst money you’ll ever waste if you don’t have a “scientific” method for determining the size of letters, negative space, and viewing distance for your sign, coupled with the reaction time an ordinary driver will have when they view your sign at 35 mph – give or take.

In this article, we’ll talk about copy area in combination with negative space to give your potential customer the best chance of reading your business advertising banners or main identification signage.

The copy area of any banner or sign is the area of that sign covered by lettering, including the space between the letters, but not between lines of copy....

Full article can be viewed at https://www.visigraph.com/signs/part-3-the-science-of-outdoor-signs-banners/

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How to Make Signs Part 2 - Calculating the Best Letter Size

As stated in part one of this series, I am borrowing heavily from the USSC publication “Sign Legibility Rules of Thumb” in order to show you, dear reader, that you just can’t slap up a cheap, poorly designed sign and expect the world to beat a path to your business’ door.

If this were the case, the big corporations would not have huge signs with huge letters beckoning you from three counties away. They do it for a reason, and this article will continue to elucidate to you why it is important to have your outdoor business signs and banners professionally designed by designers who actually understand the “rules” of color, distances, contrast, and size.

The USSC has developed a “Legibility Index” (LI) which is a number value which represents the distance (in feet) that a letter can be read...

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How to Make Signs Part 1 - Size of Lettering and Design

Making Lettering in Your Signs Readable Enough

Most people want to put the 23rd Psalm (so to speak) on a banner and expect that passersby by will be able to decipher it from their automobile.

I’ve seen examples of this where someone used red letters on a black background, and quite frankly, it was unreadable from just a few feet away because there were too many words and too little color contrast. 

The United States Sign Council has done extensive research on the issue of color, distance, contrast, and other issues of readability that most outdoor sign designers, as far as I can tell, have never read nor understand if they have. Most of the following information is available in more detail in the USSC publication “Sign Legibility Rules of Thumb.” 

Read on further at https://www.visigraph.com/signs/part-1-the-science-of-outdoor-signs-banners/

For part 2, go here.

Carved Wooden Signage Displays

Carved Wooden signage displays, along with sandblasted wood signs, are considered to be one of the ancient signs to exist until now. There are many varieties of wood sign makers use to make these signs such as cedar wood, red wood, and there's also HDU or high density urethane. Check out the video shared above.

Vinyl Decals Printed and Designed for Walls

They are easy to install and fun to look at. Those vinyl wall decals you've seen in showrooms, offices, and hallways, living room walls and department stores as well as just about everywhere else now days have become quite the fashion statement.