Every property with more than one door needs directional signage. Visitors who cannot find the entrance, the right building or the visitor parking arrive frustrated or leave; deliveries go to the wrong dock; tenants field the same questions every day. A planned sign system fixes this quietly: entrance and exit signs, parking and traffic signs, building and suite identification, directories, floor and room signs and the ADA signage the law requires.
Global Signs & Graphics designs directional signage as a system, so the colors, typography and mounting are consistent from the street to the office door. We fabricate in our Pacoima shop from aluminum, acrylic, HDU and vinyl, and our own crew installs on posts, walls, glass and floors throughout Greater Los Angeles.
Directional signs, wayfinding signs and wayfinding design for Los Angeles buildings — interior wayfinding signs, exterior directional signage for parking and campuses, and ADA-compliant room and directory signs.
Managing a property, campus or medical building that visitors struggle to navigate? Send us a site plan or a few photos and we will map out the signs you need and quote the complete package. We make interior wayfinding signs in LA and lobby directory signage for Los Angeles buildings, plus custom direction signs for parking lots, campuses and events.
Parking & Traffic Direction Signs
Entrance, exit, one-way, do-not-enter, visitor, reserved, ADA and EV charging signs on posts and walls, built to California parking and traffic sign standards. See also parking lot signs.
Building, Address & Suite Identification
Building letters and numbers, address signs visible from the street, suite and tenant identification, and loading dock and delivery signs for multi-building properties.
Directories & Campus Wayfinding
Tenant directories, campus and site map signs, pedestrian directional signs with arrows, and post-and-panel sign systems for office parks, medical centers and schools.
ADA & Interior Room Signs
ADA-compliant restroom, room number, stairwell and exit signs with tactile lettering and braille, installed at the mounting heights the code requires. See ADA restroom signs.
Floor, Wall & Window Wayfinding Graphics
Floor arrows and path markings, wall-mounted directional graphics, elevator and stairwell signs and window decals that guide people through large interiors and event spaces.
One-off signs added over the years are how a property ends up with six styles of arrow and visitors who still get lost. A wayfinding system starts with the decisions people make: where to turn in from the street, where to park, which door to enter, which floor and which suite. Each decision point gets a sign, and the signs share one design language so a visitor learns the system in the first thirty seconds.
We plan sign locations on a site plan, check sight lines and mounting heights on site, and size lettering for the viewing distance, so a driver at 25 mph and a pedestrian at the lobby door both get the information when they need it. The same system scales from a single medical building to a multi-building campus.
Directional signage carries legal requirements. ADA and California Building Code rules cover room identification, restroom and exit signs (tactile lettering, braille, contrast and mounting height), accessible parking signs have specific wording and sizes, and exterior signs on a property may need a City of Los Angeles sign permit depending on size and placement.
As a licensed C-45 sign contractor we design to these standards, prepare drawings for permits and inspections where required, and install every sign at the correct height and location so your property passes its inspection and your visitors are not left guessing.
Need directional signs for a property in Los Angeles? Send us a site plan or photos and we will map the signs, handle any permits and quote the complete system.
Direction signs earn their keep every day: they cut the questions at the front desk, keep delivery drivers out of the customer parking and get patients to the right suite on time. We design directional signs in Los Angeles as a system, not one sign at a time, so every arrow, color and typeface matches from the street to the door.
Materials range from reflective aluminum for the parking lot to acrylic and brushed metal for the lobby. We survey the property, propose a sign schedule, and fabricate and install everything from our shop in Pacoima. Related: parking lot signs, ADA signs in Los Angeles, interior signs.
Examples: the monument and directional signs for The Californian healthcare facility in Pasadena, the construction and site signage for Valor Academy Elementary in North Hills and the campus signs for Montague Charter Academy in Pacoima. More in the gallery.
From our shop in Pacoima we install directional and wayfinding signage across the San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles, including Hollywood, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and West Hollywood. About 70% of our work comes from repeat customers, many of them property managers who call us back for every building.
We walk the property or review your site plan, identify every decision point and produce a sign schedule listing each sign, its message, size and location.
You approve a design standard for the whole system, and we prepare drawings for ADA compliance, landlord approval and any city permit.
Signs are fabricated in our Pacoima shop from aluminum, acrylic, HDU and vinyl, with tactile and braille elements produced to ADA specifications.
Our crew installs on posts, walls, glass and floors at the heights and positions in the sign schedule, and confirms each location with you on site.
Whether you need a few parking and entrance signs or a complete wayfinding system for a campus, the project goes smoother when the plan, fabrication and installation come from one company. Send us a site plan and we will take it from there.
Directional signage, also called wayfinding signage, is the set of signs that guide people through a property: entrance and exit signs, parking and traffic signs, building and suite identification, directories, floor and room signs, and the arrows and maps that connect them.
ADA and California Building Code require compliant room identification, restroom and exit signs with tactile lettering and braille, accessible parking signs with specific wording, and in many cases directional signs to accessible entrances. We design and install these to the current standards.
Small regulatory and directional signs in a private parking lot usually do not, but larger freestanding directional signs, illuminated signs and anything visible from the street may. We check the City of Los Angeles or local city code for each project and handle the permit when one is needed.
Yes. We plan the whole system on your site plan, produce a sign schedule with every sign, message and location, and design one standard so every sign matches, from the street entrance to the office door.
Aluminum panels and posts with reflective or UV-resistant vinyl for parking and traffic signs, aluminum and acrylic for building and suite identification, and HDU or aluminum for post-and-panel and directory signs. All are chosen to hold up in the Los Angeles sun.
Yes, within the legal requirements. Regulatory signs such as accessible parking and fire lane signs must use the required colors and wording, but directories, building identification, suite signs and interior wayfinding can carry your brand colors, fonts and logo.
Yes. We fabricate ADA-compliant restroom, room number, stairwell and exit signs with tactile lettering and braille and install them at the mounting heights and positions the code requires.
A small package of parking and entrance signs can be produced and installed within a couple of weeks. A complete wayfinding system for a campus or multi-building property takes longer for planning, approvals and fabrication, and we give you a schedule with the sign plan.
