monument sign
A monument sign stands at grade rather than on a pole: a solid base — brick, stone veneer, stucco, precast concrete or a fabricated aluminium cabinet skinned to look like one — carrying the identification panel at driver eye level. It reads at the entrance to a site rather than from the highway, which is why so many cities require exactly this form in their sign codes and cap its height.
The visible part is the smaller half of the job. A monument needs a footing sized for the soil and the wind load, conduit stubbed to the base before anything is poured, and coordination with landscape and irrigation so the trench does not cut a mainline. Illumination is usually internal — a lit cabinet with push-through acrylic letters, or halo-lit dimensional letters on the face — with a photocell or timer so it turns itself on. Multi-tenant versions add changeable tenant panels that slide out without touching the structure.
This gallery is 63 photographs tagged "monument sign" in Notatek's own archive, from 12 client projects and 2 service galleries. The deepest set in it is St. John Properties, with 21 photos; Taco Time and Edge Homes also appear. 17 of them are also tagged pylon sign, and 15 Electric Signs — the combinations this kind of work usually turns up in. Every photo links back to the project it came from.
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12 client projects contributed photos to this page:
63 monument sign photos
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