06Made to spec, or above it.
Signs made in durable, long-life materials to spec or above, backed by a 10-year warranty.
In short
Every sign we supply is made to the approved specification or above it, in stove-enamelled aluminium and other long-life materials. Before dispatch it is checked against the production drawing for contrast, tactile relief and braille, batch-checked against its neighbours, labelled with its schedule reference and packed in installation order. Each one carries a 10-year warranty.
Every sign is made in durable stove-enamelled aluminium and other long-life materials, to the specification or above it.
Every sign is backed by a 10-year warranty.
01Why it matters
Contrast that drifts a few LRV points on the wrong substrate, braille set from an unchecked translation, forty door plates with no two logos at the same height. A scheme survives a mediocre drawing far better than it survives poor making.
Finishes move between batches, and a colour approved on screen can arrive several points adrift. We verify the made sign, because that is the thing on the wall and the thing the certificate describes.
Signage is judged comparatively. Nobody notices a logo sitting 3mm low until they've passed six doors and the seventh is different, so consistency across a run matters as much as the quality of any single sign.
02How we do it
The same sequence on every project, run by our own teams, so nothing falls between packages.
The approved design is rebuilt as a production drawing: substrate, thickness and finish named by product, colour references tied to RAL or Pantone with measured LRV, the tactile and braille layer as separate geometry, and fixing method and drill centres taken from the site survey.
Stove-enamelled aluminium is our default for durable panels, with stainless steel, acrylic, cast vinyls and photoluminescent material specified where the location calls for them. Coastal sites get fastener grades to match the exposure, and anything likely to change gets a replaceable insert.
Colour is matched to a physical standard under known light, never to a monitor. Brand colours that fail contrast are flagged before production, while changing them still costs an email.
Runs are batched by artwork and checked against each other, so type sits on the same baseline, pictograms at the same optical size and colour from the same session across every panel of a sign type.
Each sign type is checked against its drawing for size, fixing positions and finish, then measured for contrast against the 30 LRV point baseline. Braille is proofread as text, raised characters are checked by hand, safety symbols are confirmed as the prescribed ISO 7010 forms and bilingual panels are checked for parity.
Every sign leaves labelled with its schedule reference and destination (level, corridor, door) and stacked in the sequence the fitters will work, with protection specified for each finish and film left on handled faces until they are up.
03What you receive
What lands on your desk, ready to price, approve and build from.
04Standards
The standards and regulations this work is designed to. Compliance is the baseline, not an upsell.
Our default for durable panels is stove-enamelled aluminium, with stainless steel, acrylic, cast vinyls, photoluminescent material and others specified where the location calls for them. The choice follows the site: inside or out, coastal or inland, and whether the content will change.
Every sign we supply carries a 10-year warranty. Because we design, supply and install, one party is answerable for the specification, the product and the fixing, which is the point of a warranty that means something.
We measure it. Contrast is checked with an instrument on the made panel against the 30 LRV point baseline, braille is proofread as text, raised characters are checked by hand and safety symbols are checked against ISO 7010. That record is what the compliance certificate is built from.
Yes, against a physical RAL or Pantone reference under known light. Where a brand pairing doesn't reach the contrast accessibility requires, we flag it at the production drawing stage and propose the nearest pairing that does.
Labelled with their schedule reference and destination, protected for their finish, and packed in the order the fitters will install them, so nobody unwraps eleven panels on a finished floor to reach the twelfth.
Yes, from the record. The production file and materials schedule hold the finish, colour and fixing details, and spares from the original batch avoid the slight colour drift that comes with a new run.
07Insights
Follow one sign from the production file to the wall: print, cut, fabricate, check, pack, fit. Most of what goes wrong with signage goes wrong here.
Acrylic, aluminium, stainless, brass, timber, solid surface, glass. Where each belongs, how long it lasts, what it costs, and what it does to compliance.
External signage rarely fails at the face. It fails at the fixing, the edge and the foundation: the parts nobody looks at on the drawing.
Two colours can look boldly different and measure nearly the same. LRV is how signage contrast is really specified, and 30 points is the line that matters.
Braille signage only works if a hand can find it. The grades, the millimetres, the mounting heights and the manufacturing methods behind signs read by touch.
Photoluminescent signage stores light and gives it back when the power fails. What the standards actually measure, where it is required, and how to test it.
Manufacture
Approvals cut from months to days, typically around 20% off the wayfinding package, and one supplier from design to installation.
