Signage

Signs provide essential information to everyone. To accommodate the needs of the general public, including people impacted by blindness, follow these basic guidelines:

• Keep sign information short and simple. Signs that are easy to understand generate confidence.
• Be consistent in the placement of signs. For example, place signs at decision-making points along routes of travel, including entrances and exits, and mount signs at the same height throughout a building.
• Mounting heights should be appropriate for the primary occupants of a building. Lower signs may be suitable in facilities intended primarily for the use of children.
• Where lower signage is used, ensure safety-related signs are provided at both lower and standard mounting heights.
• Use typefaces, colours and graphics logically and consistently.

This section includes:

• Letter Size, Type Style and Distance
• Location of Signs
• Illumination of Signs
• Colour Contrast on Signs
• Tactile Signs (Raised Print and Braille)
• Symbols and Pictograms
• Audible Signs
• Electronic Signs