Help Please On Brown Tourism Sign

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I had to use brown reflective on signs I made for a local park.
I flood coated the alumalite with brown Oracal reflective then lettered with cut vinyl 3M Scotchlite white/1" white border.
…Still have about 6′ of that brown reflective left…
Love….Jill

[Gill Harrison]

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looking at the signs in the dark it seems that the reflective bleeds through the brow quite a lot as though it has been printed on clear or is it that the reflective properties are that good that it bleeds through the standard brown vinyl.

Hi Phil

The brown will be a transparent overlay film which when applied to a base white reflective still allows full reflectivity.
These films will cut on your plotter in much the same way as any other day to day vinyl

Gill

[Phil Grundy]

Hi Jill,

Do you sell the brown at your place.

Cheers

Phil

[Gill Harrison]

Hi Phil

Yep we do it

Gill

[Phil Grundy]

Thanks Gill & Jill
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[Stuart Miller]

I am doing some of these for a local museum and looked into it a bit.

What I found was that if these signs are to be installed on the verge of a public highway then they have to be done by application to the county council and they arrange the fabrication and charge a minimum £250 for permission before any fabrication costs.

On studying several signs locally on public highways they vary quite a bit.
Some are just plain white vinyl on a brown background and some are reflective vinyl on a brown background. So far I have seen none that are brown vinyl cut and placed on a reflective background.

If the signs are on a private road or land then you are not bound by restrictions and you can make them how you like as close as possible. If they are not important to be viewed at night then white vinyl may suffice.

The Brown is advised by the Highways Dep. as being
Pantone 469
CYMK 0,52,100,62
RGB 121,68,0
RAL 8024

Ashby Signs provide blanks.

Hope this helps

[Robert Lambie]

The Brown transparent film for motorway signage works perfectly on top of reflective. I bought some of it a few months back and applied to to signage we were doing. if i can find the pictures of them ill post them here…

other colours are available…

anyway, i bought the film from WmSmith who not only supply the materials but also manufacture road signage in-house.
http://www.williamsmith.co.uk/index.cfm … tentID=184

[Phil Grundy]

Cheers, Stuart & Rob

The signs has been specified with the high intensity vinyl as it is to go on an A road Which is BS EN 12899-1 Ref: 2 which is the cheaper of the two reflective material, I think the next spec up is used for the motorway signs (this stuff requires a small mortgage) If anyone has seen a strange man up a ladder looking closely at one of these brown signs it was probably me!

Cheers