For your sign to have maximum impact, customers need to be able to read it at a glance. Choose a location that will give you the greatest exposure to your target audience. From there, you can use this table (provided by Signs By Tomorrow - USA) to help determine the appropriate sign and lettering sizes for your selected viewing distance. Keep in mind that other factors come into play when determining readability, such as the boldness of a font, serif vs san serif, etc. for maximum legibility, keep your fonts simple and lean more towards bold.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Font Size and Signage
For your sign to have maximum impact, customers need to be able to read it at a glance. Choose a location that will give you the greatest exposure to your target audience. From there, you can use this table (provided by Signs By Tomorrow - USA) to help determine the appropriate sign and lettering sizes for your selected viewing distance. Keep in mind that other factors come into play when determining readability, such as the boldness of a font, serif vs san serif, etc. for maximum legibility, keep your fonts simple and lean more towards bold.
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On What basis the maximum readable distane with respect to letter height has been arrived?
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