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Wayfinding signage and display panels made to order in London: door plates, floor directories, directional panels and room signs built as one set. Printed and cut here on acrylic, aluminium composite and Foamex, drilled for standoff fixings and packed in schedule order with a fixing pack so an installer works room by room. Tactile and Braille plates are produced to the same schedule with their own lead time. Built to the accessibility standard your project works to.
Every set is quoted from its schedule. Send the sign schedule or floor plan and we will come back with a firm figure.
Wayfinding signage is the system that gets a visitor from the front door to room 4.12 without asking anyone. It is three jobs at once: directional panels at the decision points, a directory that maps the building, and door plates at the destinations. Buy them separately and they arrive in three typefaces, two greys and four arrow styles — and the building reads as a series of afterthoughts.
That is why this is a made-to-order product. Work starts from a sign schedule: a line per sign, listing location, wording, size and fixing. If you already have one from your architect or facilities team, we manufacture to it. If you do not, we build it with you from a floor plan — and that document is worth more than the signs, because it is what keeps the set consistent when floor 3 changes tenants two years from now.
Where these sets go: offices and lettable buildings — lobby directories, floor plates, meeting room signage; clinics and healthcare — department routing and door identification, where accessibility is not negotiable; schools and campuses — block and room numbering; and residential developments — core signage, floor levels and apartment numbers.
| Sign type | Typical build | Fixing | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Door plate | Acrylic or aluminium composite, printed face; tactile and Braille to order | Standoffs or high-tack tape | Latch side of the door, around 1200–1400 mm up |
| Directional panel | Larger printed panel, arrows and destination list | Standoffs, screws or tape | Lift lobbies, corridor junctions, stair cores |
| Directory board | Frame with individual changeable slats, or one printed panel | Wall fixings, concealed where possible | Reception and lift lobby — the map of the building |
| Statutory and route signage | Rigid board or self-adhesive, pictograms to the standard cited in your schedule | Screws or tape | Stair cores, plant rooms, exit routes |
Panels are printed direct on the UV flatbed and cut on the Zünd: acrylic where the set wants a crisp, slightly floating look, aluminium composite where the panel is large or lives near a door that gets kicked, Foamex where it is interior and cost matters. Fixings are decided at specification and drilled here — standoff barrels for the architectural look, high-tack tape where nothing may be drilled into the wall, screws with caps for panels that will be handled.
Tactile characters and Grade 1 Braille are a different craft from printing, and we say so plainly: those plates are produced with our specialist to the same schedule and typeface as the rest of your set, quoted with their own lead time. What you get is one consistent set from one supplier, not a printed set plus a mismatched accessible set bought elsewhere.
On accessibility, the honest position is this: the standards belong to your access consultant, not to us. The guidance normally cited is BS 8300 and the Equality Act — roughly 1 mm raised characters, Braille below the text line, non-glare finishes, meaningful contrast against the wall (commonly a 30% LRV difference) and mounting around 1200–1400 mm. Tell us the standard the project works to and we build to it, including the one rule people break most often: never put a gloss laminate over a tactile plate, because the reflection destroys the contrast the plate exists to provide.
The sequence is deliberately unglamorous. Schedule first — every sign listed with its wording, size, material and fixing. Proof second, showing the typographic hierarchy on real panel sizes, because a room number that works at A5 does not automatically work on a directory. Production third: printing, cutting, drilling, and packing in schedule order with a fixing pack so the installer works down the list instead of playing matching games on site.
Then the standing boundary: we manufacture; fitting is yours or your contractor’s. Panels arrive labelled by location with the holes already in the right places, which is most of the installation problem solved. If you want a fitter arranged, ask at the quote and we will tell you honestly what can be scheduled and when.
Lead time is quoted with the job. A set is a project rather than a print run — there is a schedule to agree and specialist items to bring in — so we give a date at the quote and hold it, instead of promising a morning we cannot keep. Small additions afterwards are quick: we keep the files, so an extra door plate in the same typeface is a reprint, not a redesign.
| Requirement | What we need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Sign schedule | One line per sign: location, wording, size, material, fixing | The schedule is what makes a set consistent — and what lets you extend it in two years. |
| Typography | A clear sans-serif, minimum around 15 mm cap height on door plates | Condensed and decorative faces fail at a glance and under fingertips; scale up with viewing distance. |
| Contrast | Meaningful contrast between text, panel and wall | The panel is read against the wall behind it — a pale grey plate on a pale grey wall meets no standard anyone cites. |
| Pictograms | Vector symbols, consistent across the set | Mixed pictogram families read as several buildings stitched together. |
| Cut paths | Named vector path for shaped panels | The router follows a vector line, not the picture. A shape without a path gets a rectangle. |
| Bleed and margins | 3 mm bleed; text clear of fixing positions | Standoff holes and screw caps take a real bite out of a small plate. |
Directional signs sit at decision points - lift lobbies, corridor junctions, stair cores - and answer which way. Door plates sit at the destination and answer what this room is. A wayfinding set needs both, in the same typeface and colours, or the building stops reading as one system.
Yes, as a made-to-order item. Raised characters and Grade 1 Braille are specialist finishing rather than a print process, so tactile plates are produced with our specialist to the same schedule as the rest of your set and quoted with their own lead time. Printed and cut panels come from this workshop.
The guidance an access consultant will check is BS 8300 and the Equality Act: characters raised about 1 mm, Grade 1 Braille below the text, a non-glare finish, meaningful contrast against the wall - commonly 30 percent LRV difference - and plates mounted around 1200 to 1400 mm above the floor on the latch side of the door. Tell us the standard your project works to and we build the set to it.
Standoff barrels hold the panel 13 to 25 mm off the wall. That lifts the sign into its own shadow line, which looks deliberate rather than stuck on, and it bridges uneven plaster instead of pulling the panel into every ripple. Screw positions are drilled here so nothing lands through a letter.
Design for it at the start. Directory boards can be built with individual slats so one tenant strip is swapped without touching the frame, and meeting rooms can take plates with a paper insert channel that reception updates in seconds. Retrofitting changeability into a bonded panel is not possible - so it is a specification decision, not an afterthought.
We manufacture; fitting is your contractor's. Panels leave here cut, printed, drilled for the fixings you specified and packed in schedule order with a fixing pack, so an installer works down the list room by room. If you need a fitter arranged, say so at the quote and we will tell you honestly what can be scheduled.
A schedule — or a floor plan and we will help build one — plus the materials, fixings and the access standard the project works to. We come back with a firm price and a firm date.
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