Parking and property signs
Custom Parking Signs in Los Angeles
8511 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley · Open daily 7 AM–10 PM
Tell us how many signs and what each one should say. A photo of the lot helps. The first mockup and one round of changes are free for business-sign requests, per location. Extra rounds are billed.
How aluminum parking signs are built
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Aluminum panel
Sheet aluminum won't rust, stays flat in the sun and takes a bolt at the post. Larger entrance and rules signs can use aluminum composite (two thin aluminum skins over a solid core), which stays rigid without the weight. -
Lettering and logo
UV ink printed directly on the panel for full-color logos and small type, or one-color letters cut from vinyl. A whole set comes out in your brand colors. -
Size
12 × 18 in is a common size for a sign at the head of a space, read from the driver's seat. Entrance and rules signs carry more words, so they run larger. Tow-away signs have a legal minimum size: see the rules below. -
Mounting
Holes placed for a post, a wall or a fence. Posts, bases and anchors are listed in your quote, so you can see how each sign goes up before you order.
Lots and garages
One sign plan for the whole lot
Drivers read a lot in order: the entrance from the street, the arrows to the right row, the sign at their space, then the rules on the way out. Custom parking lot signs that share one layout, one typeface and your colors are quicker to read, and the lot looks cared for.
For a whole property, send a site plan or a few phone photos with an X where each sign goes. We turn that into a sign list with the wording, size and mounting of each sign, and the quote is priced from the same list. Property managers can fold parking signs into a property sign review along with tenant panels and directories.
A site plan or phone photos with each spot marked is enough. No payment details.
Wayfinding signage for buildingsWho orders custom parking lot signs
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Property managers and HOAs
Reserved and guest spaces, assigned spaces by unit number, gate and garage signs, and the rules at every entrance. One request can cover several properties.Signs for property managers -
Retail centers and restaurants
Customer-only spaces, curbside pickup and time limits, so a shared lot doesn't fill up with the customers of the business next door.Restaurant signs -
Offices and medical buildings
Reserved spaces for staff, visitor parking close to the door, and a patient drop-off zone at the entrance.Medical office signs -
Auto shops and service businesses
Customer drop-off, employees only, and no-parking in front of the service bays and the gate. -
Warehouses and light industrial
Truck routes, aluminum no parking signs at loading docks, visitor check-in and safety signs where forklifts work. -
Churches and schools
Staff and visitor parking, drop-off and pickup lanes, and arrows that keep traffic moving on busy days.
Tow-away and accessible parking signs have set wording
| Rule | Tow-away sign at a private lot | Accessible space sign | Accessible parking tow-away sign |
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| Set by | California Vehicle Code §22658(a)(1) | 2010 ADA Standards 502.6 and California Building Code 11B-502.6 | California Building Code 11B-502.8 |
| Where it goes | In plain view at every entrance to the property. | Next to the space or at its head end, visible from the space. The bottom of the sign at least 60 in above the ground, or 80 in where it stands in a walkway. | At each entrance to the lot, or next to the accessible spaces where it's visible from each of them. |
| Size | At least 17 × 22 in, with letters at least 1 in tall. | Reflectorized, at least 70 sq in. | At least 17 × 22 in, with letters at least 1 in tall. |
| What it says | No public parking; vehicles will be removed at the owner's expense; the phone number of the local traffic law enforcement agency; the name and phone number of each towing company with a written towing agreement for the property. It may add that a citation can be issued. | The International Symbol of Accessibility in white on blue, “Minimum Fine $250” below it, and “van accessible” on van spaces. | Tow-away wording set by the code for vehicles without a disabled placard or plates, plus where towed vehicles can be reclaimed and a phone number, filled in as a permanent part of the sign. |
Summaries of California Vehicle Code §22658, the 2010 ADA Standards and California Building Code Chapter 11B as reprinted by the City of Citrus Heights Building & Safety Division (handout rev. 09/23). They are not every rule, and the code changes with each edition, so your architect confirms the edition in force. Information, not an approval. Accessible-space signs must be reflectorized: your quote names the finish of each sign, so it can be checked against the code.
Made in Sun Valley
Parking signs printed and cut in our shop
Custom aluminum parking signs are made at Angels Print, 8511 Lankershim Blvd in Sun Valley: UV printing directly on the aluminum, cut vinyl lettering, and panels cut to size. Order the whole set together, and every sign is printed from the same approved files.
Want to see aluminum and vinyl samples, or match a faded sign you already have? Bring it to the shop. We're open daily, 7 AM to 10 PM; call first so the right person is on hand.
What moves the price of parking signs
One reserved-space sign and a full sign plan for a 200-space lot are different jobs, and published price lists mix stock signs with custom work, so no range is quoted on this page. What sets the number:
- Repeats. A run of signs with one layout, where only the name or space number changes, is set up once.
- Size and panel. Larger rules and entrance signs use more material, and some need rigid aluminum composite.
- Print and sides. Full-color logos, cut vinyl, and whether a sign is read from one side or both.
- Mounting. New posts in concrete, bases bolted to a slab, or flat on a wall or fence you already have.
- The site. How many posts, asphalt or concrete, and whether the lot stays open while the signs go up.
List the signs and add a photo of the lot for a real number. No payment details.
What a complete quote includesInstallation
Posts, walls and fences: who puts the signs up
Our licensed sign-contractor partner installs parking signs: on new posts set in concrete, on bases bolted to a slab, on posts already in the lot, or flat on a wall or fence. Your quote lists the installer's CSLB license number, how each sign mounts and what the site work includes.
Putting the signs up yourself on a wall or fence you already have? Leave installation unticked on the form, and the quote can cover the signs only.
What we need for a quote
Free: 1 mockup + 1 round of changes per location for business-sign requests. Extra rounds are billed. No payment details. No obligation to order.
- A list of signs and what each one says, or photos of the signs you're replacing
- How many of each, for example 12 reserved signs with different names
- Photos of the lot, the entrances and the spot for each sign
- A site plan with the spots marked, if it's a whole lot
- Sizes, if you know them, and how each sign mounts: post, wall or fence
- Your logo file and brand colors
- For tow-away or accessible parking signs, the exact wording from your property manager, towing company or architect
- The property address
Replacing faded signs? Photograph each one face-on, and we redraw it from the photo.
Send photos any time
Email hello@angelssigns.com with the property address in the subject.
Related sign types
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Wayfinding signs Directories, arrows and suite signs that get visitors where they're going.
See wayfinding signs
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Monument signs Low signs at your entrance or lot.
See monument signs
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Pylon signs Tall signs drivers see from the road. Tenant panels and refaces too.
See pylon signs
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Office signs Door, suite and interior signs.
See office signs
Sign-type photos are illustrations, not our projects.
Parking sign questions
Still deciding? Call (818) 806-9006 or text a photo and ask.
What size should a parking sign be?
Why aluminum instead of plastic?
Can you make tow-away and no-parking signs?
Do you make accessible parking signs?
Do parking signs need a city permit in Los Angeles?
Can the signs carry our logo and colors?
Who puts the signs up?
Send the list, get the whole lot quoted
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.
What to send
- A wide photo of the lot or its entrance.
- What each sign says, and the count of each.
- A logo file, if you have one.
Replacing old signs? Start with a photo of each.
8511 Lankershim Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352Open daily 7 AM to 10 PMGet directions