Industries
Signs for Your Kind of Business
Restaurants, shops, clinics and offices each need a different set of business signs, and so do the centers they rent in. Pick yours to see what usually fits, or send a photo and we'll suggest options for your building.
8511 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley · Open daily 7 AM–10 PM
Free: 1 mockup + 1 round of changes per location for business-sign requests. Extra rounds are billed.
Why your kind of business changes the sign
Three things change from one business to the next:
- When people look for you. A restaurant open until 11 needs a lit sign. An office that closes at 5 often doesn't.
- What they need to read. A menu and hours on the glass, a suite number in the lobby, a parking arrow at the curb.
- Who approves it. In a shopping center, the landlord's sign criteria come first. Then the city reviews the sign.
Get those three right and the sign type mostly picks itself.
Signs by kind of business
Shops, salons and offices usually start with the sign over the door or behind the front desk. Restaurants, clinics and whole properties need a wider set, from menu boards to tenant panels.
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Restaurants and cafes Restaurant signs
A lit sign out front, hours and menu highlights on the glass, menu boards inside, often against an opening date. See restaurant signs
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Shops, salons and barbers Storefront signs for shops
Channel or dimensional letters over the door, a blade sign for foot traffic, and your logo and hours on the glass. See signs by type of shop
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Medical and dental offices Medical office signs
A building or monument listing, suite signs and a lobby sign that patients find without asking. Ask about medical office signs
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Offices and professional firms Office and lobby signs
Your logo behind the front desk, door and suite signs, and printed walls for the rooms clients see. See lobby signs
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Property managers and landlords Signs for property managers
Tenant panels, pylon and monument refaces, directories, parking signs and sign criteria for the whole property. See property sign services
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Our shop
Contractors and brands Fabrication for the trade
Drawings to build from, or a brand standard for LA locations. We fabricate faces, letters and panels to your files. See fabrication for the trade
Sign-type photos are illustrations, not our projects. The photo tagged “Our shop” is a real photo of our Sun Valley shop.
What each kind of business usually needs
A starting point, not a rule. Your building, your hours and your landlord decide the final set.
| Kind of business | Outside | Glass and doors | Inside | Check first |
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| Restaurants and cafes | Lit channel letters, a lightbox or a blade sign | Hours, menu highlights, delivery apps | Menu boards, LED neon, printed walls | In the City of LA, a lit sign needs a permit filed by a C-10 or C-45 licensed contractor. Our licensed sign-contractor partner files it; your quote lists the installer's CSLB license number. Temporary banners need a permit too. |
| Shops, salons and barbers | Channel or dimensional letters, a blade sign | Logo, hours, privacy film | A logo wall, LED neon | Your landlord's sign criteria. In the City of LA, window signs may cover up to 10% of the window area. |
| Medical and dental offices | Dimensional letters, a monument or directory panel | Suite name, hours, frosted film | Lobby sign, suite and room signs, wayfinding | The building's standard for suite and directory signs |
| Offices and professional firms | A building or monument panel | Door lettering | Lobby sign, office door signs, wall graphics | What the building allows in the lobby and on doors |
| Auto shops and service businesses | A wall sign, a monument or pole sign, parking and drop-off signs | Hours and services | Service boards, wall graphics | In the City of LA, automotive uses need a Conditional Use Permit for pole, projecting or roof signs. |
| Shopping centers and office buildings | Pylon and monument tenant panels, building signs | Leasing graphics on empty units | Directories, wayfinding, parking signs | The property's sign criteria or sign program. Pasadena requires a Master Sign Plan at 6 or more tenants. |
City of LA notes are general information from the LADBS Sign Manual; the Pasadena note is from the city's design review page. Information, not an approval.
Help Me Choose
Send a photo. We'll suggest signs that fit your wall and your city's rules.
Or start from the sign type
Not sure what your business needs? Send a photo.
We'll suggest signs that fit your building, your hours and your city's rules, then show the one you like on your storefront.
Free: 1 mockup + 1 round of changes per location for business-sign requests. Extra rounds are billed. Or bring your logo to the shop, open daily 7 AM–10 PM.
8511 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352Open daily 7 AM to 10 PMGet directions