MASTER SIGN PROGRAM SERVICES

Signage for businesses, schools, churches, and other organizations is more effective when it follows a consistent plan that dictates design standards. Just as a company manages its image by carefully detailing how to represent its brand logo, a city or building developer helps maintain consistency through a master sign program or plan.

A good master sign program consultant can develop a plan that governs permit signage while allowing for flexibility and individuality in each sign’s design. Instant Signs, an expert in sign design, fabrication, installation, and maintenance, provides master sign program services, including developing or consulting on the development of master sign plans, and adhering to the plans in signage design.

Benefits of Master Sign Plans

Master sign plans are beneficial to businesses and developers because they help maintain a consistent look in an area or building complex. They provide helpful guidelines to organizations as they choose signage. Here are the main purposes of master sign programs:

Consistency and aesthetics: Master sign plans establish standards to maintain a cohesive, visually pleasing look that complements architecture, landscaping, and overall design.
Wayfinding: A plan helps ensure that businesses clearly and equitably communicate wayfinding information, such as the location of exits and restrooms, and signage for traffic circulation. It can also help businesses comply with certain Americans with Disability Act requirements for signage, such as the location of handicap-accessible areas, changing rooms, and more.
Flexibility: Master sign plans often allow some flexibility in approving signage with minor deviations from specifications, as long as it’s well-designed and fits with other signage in the area.
Efficient signage permit process: Setting the criteria for signage helps expedite the signage permit process by clearly communicating design regulations.

Master Sign Program Specifications

Master sign plans typically include the following information about individual signs:

Sign types, including channel letter signs, LED signs, monument signs, sign boxes, pylon signs, and more.
Size, including maximum sign area, height, and dimensions for different sign types and spaces.
Location and placement, including locations for master signs, individual tenant signs, wayfinding signs, and interior signs.
Materials, including sign materials like acrylic, gatorfoam, vinyl, and PVC.
Design, including color schemes, lettering styles, and illumination.
Structural details, including construction and attachment methods.

Why Choose Instant Signs

Instant Signs is your comprehensive source for master sign program services in Orange County. As a master sign program consultant, we can help design a master sign program as well as provide design solutions for following one. Instant Signs offers:

Competitive pricing
Installation expertise
Excellent customer service, from design to installation and maintenance
Fast service turnaround
C-45 license, enabling us to pull the correct permits and ensure fabrication and installation are to code
Registered public works contractor with the Department of Industrial Relations, making us eligible to work on government projects

Get started on your master sign program-compliant project today! Contact us for a free consultation.

FAQ

What is a master sign program?

A master sign plan or program provides commercial signage guidelines for signs in an area or business complex, with the aim of maintaining consistency while affording individual tenants the flexibility to represent their business brands. The master sign program consultant might include architectural signage standards, graphic standards, and other tenant signage guidelines.

What are the benefits of a master sign plan?

A good master sign plan helps maintain a visually cohesive, integrated sign design for a single building complex or campus. A master sign program also ensures clear wayfinding information, compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, flexibility for tenants to maintain individuality, and efficient permitting to ensure sign code compliance. With an experienced master sign program consultant creating a plan, local governments can more efficiently evaluate the commercial signs and issue permits quickly.

What specifications are included in a master sign program?

A signage criteria manual provides the following information:

Types of signs included in the area.
Size specifications, including maximum height and dimension signage allowance for different spaces.
Location and placement of specific sign types, including directory signage and freestanding signage.
Materials used for signs.
Sign design specifications, including colors, lettering schemes, and lighting.
Structural details like construction and attachment methods.

How does Instant Signs provide master sign program services?

Instant Signs is your one-stop C45-licensed shop for both master sign programs and sign design, fabrication, and installation. Our experienced master sign program consultants will meet with you to provide a free consultation, gathering vital information about your business or government complex, including the individual tenants and the complex site. Instant Signs will then propose a master sign plan that includes all the specifications. We can then get to work on individual tenants’ sign design proposals, create the signs, and work with local governments to obtain the proper permits before installation.