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Door and office signs

The last sign in the chain — a room number, an office name, a department label. There are more of them than of anything else, they change most often, and they are read from closest up.

A door sign is the only sign a person reads from half a metre. Every imprecision shows there: uneven spacing, an edge that is not clean, a number centred two different ways on the same floor. So door signs are made as a series from one master, not piece by piece.

The other thing that always comes up after occupancy is change. People move, departments merge, an office changes name. If the name is engraved into the plate itself, every change is a new plate. So we specify a carrier with an insert: the sheet changes, the carrier and the layout stay put for years.

Door and office signs — example of delivered work

What this covers

Hotel room numbers

A consistent series per floor, with floor marking and direction to the rooms.

Carriers with inserts

The name changes by sliding out a sheet, without taking the sign off the wall.

Department and office labels

For institutions where the name changes more often than the use of the room.

Braille and tactile lettering

At the height and spacing accessibility requires, with an edge the hand can find.

Plant room labels

Boiler room, electrical cupboard, server room and anything else needing a clear, permanent label.

A sample before the run

The first plate goes up and gets looked at on site before the whole series is made.

Where we delivered it

Crowne Plaza

External and internal hotel signage, delivered to the brand manual.

Radisson Blu

A hotel signage system, from the arrival areas to room and service signage.

Frequently asked questions

On carriers with inserts — same day, because only the sheet is printed. On engraved plates a new plate is needed, so the lead time is production time.

In buildings in public use accessible signage is a duty, and in hotels it is also a guest expectation. We propose it wherever a room has a permanent number or name.

It depends on the wall and on whether the layout is expected to change. On plasterboard and clad walls we usually bond, with the surface prepared; in hotels where the layout is fixed we fix mechanically.

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