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"What is Signage?" Darrel Griffin asks the pros...

30/8/2013

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It’s a question that’s commonly asked on Google, according to my research for The Sign Blog.

So I decided to put the question to sign industry professionals from all over the world via LinkedIn’s International Sign Association Group, and received some great responses. Here’s just a selection:


What is Signage?
Lonnie Stabler, TSA Advocate, has written a Glossary of Sign Terms (email Lonnie for a copy), and from it he quoted:

“SIGNAGE: A system term which identifies multiple types of signs and identification information and is broad enough to cover all types of signs, trademarks or accent components. The Glossary … was written to help provide information to the sign industry and provide specific language that would be helpful to planners, designers, code officials, policy makers, legal staff and other related industry professionals. Included are approximately 200 sign types or phrases containing various sign descriptive functions.”


Douglas Euers, sign company owner, wrote:

“As we understand and use signs, it is a visual conveyance of information. Sometimes it is words, sometimes it is pictographs. As Sharon points out (below), an audible enhancement is part of advertising or a means of real time information or updates, but governed by a different set of rules.”


A succinct Joseph Licari chose to quote a dictionary:

“Signage: Signs or a system of signs used to show information about something (such as a business or a road). Let’s keep this simple.”


And Sharon Toji (President/ADA consultant at ADA Sign Products) rightly brought our attention to audible signage for the sight impaired:

“…I want to include audible signs in the definition, because to me, they are a way for people who don't see to know what is included in a textual display. I would agree that just any PA announcement is not a sign, but when it is a word for word copy of something that everyone who can see uses as a sign, then I would call it an audible sign.”


If you’d like to read all the comments, please click here.

So it’s over to you, then: What is Signage? If you had to write your own dictionary definition, how would it read?

Darrel Griffin is Signs & Lines’ Business Development Manager 
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