City Signs and Town Signs

As you can see in the photos above, we design and manufacture all kinds of city signs and town signs, including signs for community centers, parks, city offices etc.  

We will focus on the town and city welcome entrance signs lower down this page as they are a very important part of any city's public image.

First though I want to talk about our super strong hurricane and vandal resistant signage.

 If you are having damage or vandal problems follow this link  to read about our solid polyester signage. The Town of Southern Pines was having a lot of damage from vandals about 12 years ago and needed something different, but they didn't want to change the look of their signs, we suggested making a mold and producing some of our super tough signs. 

The Douglass sign above and Nick's Creek to the left are two of about 10 signs we have made them for various uses over the years. Since then they have only lost 1 sign; a large truck ran over it ! These signs can emulate whatever was used for the original. So if you want the look of sandblasted redwood we can do that. Not only that, but they will actually cost less than real old growth vertical grain redwood. Please note: because we make a mold and cast the signblanks, it is only cost effective with multiples. We don't want to mislead you into thinking it is less expensive when producing just 1 or 2 signs.

Want to see how strong they are  

City,Town Welcome and Entrance Signs.

For residents and visitors alike a well designed city sign or town sign is a welcome sight. Town and city signs define the city limits, welcome new visitors and let folks know they have arrived.

They should be pleasing to the eye but at the same time be clear and legible. In smaller towns and cities they are often less formal, sometimes even a little quirky. One thing towns and cities should try to steer clear of, is getting too flowery and I don't mean flowers! A visitor should be able to absorb the content of your city sign at 50 MPH on a dark and rainy night, because thats who they are really meant to help. Lets face it once you have read a sign you rarely give it more than a cursory look again.

In this site I often refer to C C L ...CLARITY CONTRAST LEGIBILITY 

It doesn't make much difference to you, who pass the city sign every day, but it makes a big difference to new visitors.  We often see town and city signs designed by well meaning amateurs who create detailed and convoluted works of art that contain huge scripted letters wrapped around each other.  Yes, they are great works of art that took a lot of work to produce, but even on a clear day travelling at 50mph, they are unintelligible blobs.

We are very proud of the craftsmanship that went into the sign to the right and up. If only they had allowed us to make a small change to their design and give the lettering a bolder stroke it would have made a lot of difference to the legibility of what I believe is a beautifully designed sign. 

When traveling, people look for town and city signs for confirmation of where they are, even in these days of GPS.

Why not make it more appealing to travelers who may want to stop for a while?

Below is a city sign designed to fit the 29ft. diameter curved wall of a traffic circle.

Classic Signs can design your City or Town sign incorporating beautiful design (yours or ours), and/or your seal into a professionally made welcome sign.

Please take a look at our gallery of city and Town signs.  If you are looking for a sign for your City or Town, please call us and our very experienced designers will do everything they can to help you design the perfect sign for your City or Town, including suggestions of various substrates the sign can be made from.