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How do you explain to a person that when you write a sign, you don't write it like a regular sentence? All of the commas, simicolons, periods, parentheses, etc. are not needed in a sign. It's junk! Signs look better when they look like a sign not a page taken off a typewriter. Yeah, I said typewriter. There's got to be a word for it. "A sign is to be writen in (blank) form." I don't know what word blank is, but there's got to be a word for it. I bet Authur Vanson would have known. He was always good with words, bless his soul.
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(blank) in modern computer words might be 'dot point' form (?)
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I believe that the correct word might be "graphic".
Take the word "inquire" as an illustration. You could use it on a sign as it appears above. but you could also introduce some graphic creativity and write it as: in?uire.
Which is more memorable ? Which way might garner more attention ? Is it readily understood and comprehended?
The point is that the signwriter has to be afforded some creative lattitude in order to create something more visually appealing that connects with the viewer. The status quo is rarely memorable or intrigueing, simply because it's the same old way of looking at it, and that's a recipe for BORING.
Insist on the status quo, and nothing creative or memorable will result.The customer will get a sign that looks like everyone else's, and what value is there in that ?
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when I worked for the outdoor advertising companies we called them "promotional phrases" and were only allowed 3 or four "promotional phrases" per design at most. the were categorized as
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i have a hard time with the "newbie printers"!!!! they seem to think all SIGNS are to be done like your writing a letter!!!!!! cap first letter and then lower case.... they really dont get what a SIGN IS)))))
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"A sign is to be writen in unpunctuated form."
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Season's Greetings -or- Seasons Greetings....been nailed both ways. There seems to be one in every crowd.
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K.I.S.S. - Keep it short and simple - as Tim implied. You can always tell him that you charge extra for punctuation
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Okay, I like Kelly's answer the best. For now on I will say, " A sign is to be written in unpunctuated form." Very good.
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I chuckled at a sign I saw the other day. Kinda innovative OR the sign writer ran out of room???
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The final chapter of James Callinghams book 1874 book on Signwriting is titled " Orthographical and other errors" From it this; " In punctuation some very strange things are occasionally perpetrated. The signwriter who disdains punctuation, and omits " points" of every discription, is far wiser than he who, fancing he has knowledge of the art, introduces commas and full-points in all sorts of queer places" Also " If a tradesman who engages a writer is incapable of of correctly stating what he wishes written regarding his own trade, it is hardly to be expected that the writer will be much better. There is more, go and read it
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Just had a further look at this book, might be worth another post, he states on gold leaf that the beaters get 1600 leaves from 1 ounce of gold , Todays gold process gets more than 2500 we are putting thinner gold on our work with standard leaf. Sorry for going off topic.
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A sign is not literature. It is graphic art.
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