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Major Sorts of Signage

By Harrison James

Signage refers to graphics or images which provide information to viewers, and is present everywhere as a result of technology. Most tourists would be lost; much time, energy and patience would be wasted, and businesses would not be doing so well in the absence of signage.

Signage is a huge field that includes visuals from street signs to indoor directions and then on to promotional advertisements. Signage is used for numerous items that can have completely different backgrounds. Signage comes under the broad heading of graphic designing. Graphic designing is not the same as fine arts. The classification is necessary because fine artists do not have to convince their clients about their design; on the other hand the priority of the graphic designer is to make sure the client gets what they want. In our case, graphic artists will make sure the target audience understands the purpose behind the designing of the signage.

The most common type of signage is way finding. Way finding includes all directions found at the airports, in hospitals, universities, malls and hotels. The most common examples are the small tablets glued to the doors to indicate where the bathrooms are, as well as the huge number signs opposite most elevator doors, that inform people about the floor that they just landed on.

Coming under brand management, the second sort of signage refers to a business which hires graphic artists that take into account the requirements of the business and research about their target audience. After that, the graphic artists design a logo or a signature which will represent the business on various items including business cards, writing pads and envelopes.

When businesses launch advertisement campaigns, they use signage as well. During the T20 world cup, a beverages company recently came up with a popular campaign that included Shahid Afridi on the bottle drinking Pepsi. Such promotional strategies, that are part of advertisements, are also part of signage. This includes small pamphlet sized hangings on the ceilings of grocery stores that remind customers, there and then, about the product of a specific business.

Street signs are informative and specific since people read them when on the go. So, no room to confuse the viewers exists, like by adding unnecessary graphics. However, although bright neon lights can blind you at one point or another when you go down the streets of New York at night, these signs compete with others to catch the attention of the general population, and are thus, appealing.

Businesses might want to have exclusive signage, as well as the usual, for which they will order specific signage that fits their needs. Therefore, exclusively made signage is called custom-made signage, and it might be different when compared to the ordinary as it is tailor-made to suit the requirements of the client.

Signage is the best known type of graphic designing on this planet. Business will observe a rise in revenue, and therefore, an increase in profits, in case of successful designs and designers.

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