When beginning a custom directional signage project, shouldn’t a sign company start by fully understanding the client’s property layout and navigation needs? At Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics, we believe an extensive on-site survey provides crucial insights that shape the entire process. How else can specialized signage be tailored without first walking the grounds? Our team meticulously maps entry and exit points, common interior traffic flows, and areas needing improved wayfinding. For sprawling corporate campuses or multi-building complexes, we note main destinations like lobbies, atriums, and amenity hubs. Could overlooking these property specifics risk creating an ill-fitting directional signage plan unable to address unique requirements? By gathering key details early, Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics develops comprehensive signage enhancing navigation across the client’s venue.
Connecting Brand Identity with Wayfinding
While directional signs serve an important functional purpose, they also provide companies a subtle yet impactful branding opportunity. How can signage better extend your visual identity outward? Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics analyzes the color schemes, typography, and graphic styling within our clients’ existing brand guidelines. We then seamlessly integrate complementary elements into new signage designs. The goal? For visitors to experience reinforced brand messaging without even noticing. From the reception area to exterior parking zones, branded wayfinding signage makes a strong identity statement unique to each client. Why not boost brand recognition and orient visitors in one expertly-crafted move?
Charting the User Journey
Understanding a property and brand simply scratches the surface when planning optimized wayfinding. Who actually interacts with these signage systems once installed? Vendors arriving for a high-rise meeting? Executives visiting regional corporate headquarters? Patients proceeding to medical center appointments? The user journey must direct diverse audiences without confusion. Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics digs deeper by charting detailed point-to-point pathways based on common origin and destination combinations. What information guides a visitor from the parking garage to the south wing conference rooms? How about mapping the lobby elevator route to the fourth floor cafeteria? Every possible path receives wayfinding signage cues easing navigation across properties. Why leave anything to poor guesswork when strategic guidance can provide intuitive experiences?
Balancing Visual Impressions
Well-designed wayfinding signage blends aesthetic appeal, visibility, and instant information comprehension. But how best to balance these crucial elements? Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics believes signage style must complement functionality. Clean fonts and ample negative space promote quick readability across distances while complementary colors and strategic illumination attract viewer focus. Yet overly flashy presentations risk overwhelming surrounding architecture. To blend seamlessly, contemporary high-rises may suit sleek minimalist signage while traditional structures could feature classically inspired layouts. Whatever the style, form follows function in symbiotic balance. Why distract visitors when signs can delightfully direct?
Specifying Quality Materials
Beyond just attractive designs, long-lasting materials define durable signage systems. But what level of resilience makes sense for sustaining ongoing Colorado exposure? Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics specifies heavy-duty aluminum, long-lasting solid polymers, weather-resistant paints, and shatterproof acrylics capable of surviving years of UV rays, seasonal temperature shifts from frigid winters to hot summers, high winds, and heavy snow. Why replace signage prematurely when the right materials endure? We also recommend interchangeable modular components allowing straightforward future updates as tenant needs evolve. With quality materials and adaptable fabrication, Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics creates long-term signage assets rather than temporary installations requiring constant replacement.
Illumination for Any Hour
As daylight fades, does your exterior signage remain equally visible and informative? Or do wayfinding markers become practically invisible resulting in visitors losing direction? Outdoor sign lighting extends navigational effectiveness beyond daylight hours. But what types of illumination work best? Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics offers multiple integrated lighting options from subtle halo backlighting to brighter internally lit panels capable of illuminating pathways around the clock. Programmable RGB LED strips allow adjusting color, intensity, and timing to sync with ambient conditions through dawn, daylight, dusk, and full night. Keeping visitors on track in any hour and promoting ongoing branding both prove lighting plays a valuable role in custom signage solutions.
Prioritizing Inclusive Design
While aesthetic appeal and visibility drive much of Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics’ signage design process, inclusive accessibility remains equally important. Do directional signs actually consider those with visual, auditory, or mobility impairments? Or do confusing layouts instead frustrate and exclude users? In reality, everyone interacting with wayfinding signage carries unique needs whether apparent or not. Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics keeps current with the latest local, state, and federal regulatory codes – including critical ADA compliance standards. Practical design choices like sufficient text sizing and spacing, high contrast ratios between background colors and lettering, tactile braille additions, and supporting pictograms promote improved inclusive navigation. Shouldn’t everyone feel welcome, safe, and independent roaming through buildings and grounds?
Scheduling Seamless Installation
Even a thoughtfully-designed and meticulously-fabricated signage system risks falling short if not properly installed on location. But what allows a seamless transition from concept to practical implementation? First, Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics coordinates acceptable mounting dates and times with clients to minimize business disruptions. Crews then use specialized tools and techniques to securely fasten signs while protecting existing structures from damage. We also perform final walkthroughs after installing directional signage systems, tuning positioning or visual pathways as needed. While the stakes feel high transforming wayfinding visions into reality, Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics makes the process as smooth as the enhanced navigation we provide.
Building Future Flexibility
Business landscapes rarely stay static for long. Companies grow, departments move, buildings expand. How can custom signage avoid immediate irrelevance when updates arrive? Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics offers clients built-in flexibility through interchangeable modular components allowing straightforward swapping of updated panels. Digital displays also enable adjusting messaging in real time as changes occur. We further consult with clients regarding budgeting for future maintenance, replacement needs, and overall system growth. Proactive planning preserves signage system investments despite inevitable shifts in organizational structures, branding evolutions, or capacity fluctuations. Wayfinding signage able to seamlessly adapt lasts for the long run.
Evaluating Performance
After a sign installation concludes, how does one gauge real-world performance? Does the new directional system actually improve navigation and brand impressions based on measurable metrics? Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics believes monitoring key wayfinding statistics over time validates success while revealing areas needing adjustment. We suggest tracking reduced reception call volumes for lost visitors, compiling visitor surveys rating navigational difficulty, and comparing foot traffic flow patterns before and after. Hard qualitative data demonstrates how improved signage directly increases first-time visitor confidence. For public venues like theaters, surveys could reveal shortened concession stand queues. Why speculate on results when strategic tracking provides definitive directional signage performance proof?
Providing Attentive Maintenance
Once a directional signage system activates, should responsiveness fade as visitors come and go? Not according to Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics. We see dedicating consistent upkeep as defending each client’s wayfinding investment long term. Why risk a customer’s first impression being a grimy, outdated sign? Ongoing maintenance preserves navigational relevance and brand aesthetics despite heavy use and environmental factors. From regular cleanings, paint touch ups, and lamp replacements to periodic content updates, keeping signage presentation sparkling literally clears the path for positive visitor experiences. Don’t all businesses want uninterrupted visibility guiding customer journeys?
Wayfinding Signage Showcases Properties
In concise messaging, impactful visibility, and strategic location lies the power of transformative directional signage. Much more than just functional markers, comprehensive signage systems make memorable first impressions while intuitively guiding. They reinforce sophisticated branding in an instant and on every path. For organizations in Greenwood Village’s thriving business community, wayfinding signage plays a crucial role conveying polished corporate identities within navigable campus environments. Legacy Custom Signs and Graphics proudly enhances our clients’ reputations with tailored signage promoting uninterrupted visibility. From initial planning to ongoing attentive maintenance, let our passion for innovative signage strengthen your edge. Our dedication equals your success.