Street Blade Signs Changing (All Uppercase > Mixed Case)?

[Scott5114]

The WyCo Unified Government's new approach in Kansas City, KS, which is very tastefully done in my opinion.


Mastarm signage is exactly the same as before, but switched to mixed case. Looks sharp.

[Central Avenue]

I quite like that. Looks like they even did a decent job leaving room for the descenders on letters like y, which seems to be something a lot of places get wrong.

[mjb2002]

I quite like that. Looks like they even did a decent job leaving room for the descenders on letters like y, which seems to be something a lot of places get wrong.

Kansas City, Kan. didn't leave much room, though. Practically speaking, the sign blank should be twice the height of the initial uppercase letters if the uppercase letters are less than 10 inches in height. If the uppercase letters are 10 or more inches in height, the sign blank should be a minimum of 18 inches in height.

[Brian556]

Around here, signs that have decenders have the word higher on the blade to make room for it, which looks bad. I prefer the word be vertically centered on the blade.

[mjb2002]

Around here, signs that have decenders have the word higher on the blade to make room for it, which looks bad. I prefer the word be vertically centered on the blade.

I noticed that some of the new Aiken County street name signs do the same. That is why I prefer it that the street name sign blanks are the recommended heights – which is twice the height of the initial uppercase letter on the signs – rather than the minimum heights (6 inches for 4 inch initial UC signs, 9 inches for 6 inch initial UC signs).

[mjb2002]

This here, is what Brian556 and I were referring to.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.513473,-81.71805,3a,75y,90h,90.31t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sVTbxYjjjwF3gIy8VKLSLgA!2e0