INTRODUCING SIGN STANDARDS
A better way to maintain your signage.
Sign Standards supports the ongoing maintenance of your signage by giving facility managers the ability to access sign assets, edit sign templates, review budget costs, and initiate new sign orders.
Managed by you.
Supported by Cygnus.
Online Signage Manual
Sign Standards stores all of the information related to your signage. Sign drawings, brand standards, arrows, pictograms, and policies; everything your team needs to initiate new sign orders is available, updateable, and accessible across your organization.
Benefits:
Accessible throughout your organization with secure user accounts.
Changes to signage assets distributed easily throughout your organization.
New sign additions are integrated seamlessly into your existing standards.
Customizeable Sign Templates
Online sign templates make it possible for facility staff to customize icons and text to create new signs. No special design software required. Built-in guard rails for text and layout ensure consistent quality. Preview for review and approval or submit to a sign vendor for quotation.
Benefits:
Preview and edit signs in real-time.
No back-and-forth.
Improved predictability and reliability through facility-side control.
No special design software required.
Streamlined Procurement
Facility staff review cost estimates and export production packages for signage vendor quotation. Sign Standards streamlines procurement by reducing variability between fabricators, improving back-and-forth time, and delivering competitive quotes that follow the same production specifications.
Benefits:
Less time required to initiate and procure new signs.
Budget estimates that support your planning and project management.
Compare “apples to apples” production quotes resulting from consistent documentation.
Sign Standards in use: BC Parks
OUR STORY
Forty years of partnerships with leading universities, health campuses, municipalities, and real estate developers has provided a unique understanding of your signage requirements.
Clients often come to Cygnus because the signage and wayfinding across their facilities has become a challenge. A review reveals multiple sign standards with an inconsistent visual approach, branding that is not current, outdated or inaccurate messaging, and damaged or missing signs. Your signage should provide the same function, quality, and consistency whether a sign is installed today or 10 years from now.
By improving options for facility staff to access and initiate sign orders, Sign Standards promotes the overall longevity of your sign program.
About Cygnus
Cygnus is a design firm specializing in wayfinding, signage, environmental graphics, and placemaking for universities, hospitals, real estate developments, and civic facilities. We improve how people navigate their environments, access important products and services, and engage with our client’s brands.