When looking out the window of a moving car or when walking down a busy
street, what do you typically see? Generally you'll see homes,
businesses or other similar buildings. But how do you know what they
are? It's because of the sign letters that you may be able to see on
the outside or above on a billboard. I'm sure you're saying, "no, my
home doesn't have any signs on it". But what about your address?
The numbers on the outside of your house that make it stand out from all
the other houses.
There are other signs to show you the time or even the weather forecast.
The other types of signs you see could be huge advertisements.
These can be large over the top computerized signs, or even just
handmade paper displays advertising a yard sale. Is the world becoming
so over advertized that when you can look up in the sky and see not a
bird, but a plane trailing an
advertising banner, a blimp with printed advertising, or even skywriting?
Is this the only way we know how to express ourselves and how to get our point across?
We also need
sign letters. when we
are traveling. How do you know which road to take if you
don't know which road you are on, which
exit is the nearest rest room, or a road leading to your destination?
These are very important things, especially when traveling
long distances. Besides directing traffic on the outside of buildings,
signs can also do the same on the inside of buildings. If you're
in a hospital or airport, you can almost
always look up and see a sign pointing you in a direction with a little
map of where else you can go from there.
Sign letters can be very helpful even to those who can not see. That may
not make any sense, but the use of Braille as signage is
extremely important to people in this day and age. On that note, if
you're watching a T.V. show and see the words being written out
at the bottom of the screen that some of us take for granted. Other ways
that we use signage: a restaurant can display the dish of the
day with changeable letter signs, or even with a computerized digital
version. Those are becoming increasingly popular with many
businesses. What other display do you need to make a choice for your
meal before you even enter the restaurant?
Without a scoreboard at sporting events you may have a hard time keeping
track of the score. In those sorts of stadiums you also have
arrows, like in an airport, that will direct you to your correct
departure gate. Traffic control signs can also help to block off
traffic from an accident and save others from suffering the same fate.
Without signage or display sign letters, it could become
increasingly difficult to get through certain aspects of the day as you
travel around.
