If you are thinking about ordering custom private property signs for the property or building suite you manage, whether its custom no trespassing signs, no parking signs, or even custom ADA signage, you need to consider typography, text orientation, image quality, color and overall size of the sign before you place your order.

What would our roadways, highways and city streets look like if all the road traffic signs you saw with the same meaning all looked different from each other? That is, what if on one street, stop signs are the familiar red and octagon-shaped ones yet on other streets, they are yellow and square shaped? What if every city, state or county decided on its own the shape and design of its road safety signs individually?

From restaurants and shopping malls to office buildings and warehouses, the vast majority of places in the U.S. ban or limit indoor smoking. No smoking signage, which includes the image of a lit cigarette with a slash through it, commonly appears in indoor public places...

Blowing the lid off convention and setting a new precedence, the state residents of Colorado and Washington voted in recent elections to make it legal to buy, possess and recreationally use marijuana. Other states such as California have made it legal for those with specific medical prescriptions to legally purchase certain amounts of the drug for medical use only. Despite its legality in these states, buying, owning and consuming marijuana remains a federal crime. As such, it is easy to see how the new laws are causing widespread confusion.

Walk, drive or bike down the street of any major city and you will see road signs and traffic signs posted everywhere. From the hard to miss red stop signs to the yellow pedestrian crossing signs, it seems like everywhere you look there is a sign telling you not to do this or not to do that. Unfortunately, in some situations, such familiarity can breed complacence. That is, such road safety signs become so much a part of the urban tapestry that drivers and cyclists stop noticing and heeding them.