pylon sign
A pylon sign lifts the sign cabinet well above grade on one or more steel poles, usually with the structure sleeved and skinned so it reads as a column rather than a pipe. It exists for distance: a driver at 45 mph on an arterial needs letter heights and a mounting height that a monument sign at the driveway cannot give them.
Multi-tenant pylons carry stacked tenant panels, and the position on that stack is negotiated in the lease before anything is fabricated. The engineering is the real constraint — pole size, footing depth and rebar are calculated for wind load and soil, stamped by an engineer, and inspected. Height and area are also the parts of a sign code cities most often restrict, so what is permittable on a given parcel is worth confirming before a design is priced.
This gallery is 39 photographs tagged "pylon sign" in Notatek's own archive, from 10 client projects and 1 service gallery. The deepest set in it is St. John Properties, with 13 photos; The Smoked Taco and Kubex Fitness also appear. 26 of them are also tagged Electric Signs, and 17 monument sign — the combinations this kind of work usually turns up in. Every photo links back to the project it came from.
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39 pylon sign photos
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