Event Signage

Floor-standing holders and stanchion-mounted toppers, both taking a standard 8.5x11 sheet you print yourself.

Both take a sheet of letter paper

Toppers and floor holders use the same 8.5x11 format, so one set of artwork covers both and you can decide on site which sign goes where. Print it yourself: a room change or a spelling fix at eight in the morning is a reprint, not a problem.

Topper or holder

A topper mounts on a stanchion you already have, and belongs to the queue: "line starts here", "A–M", "members". A floor-standing holder stands where no post does — a lift landing, a corridor junction, the entrance to a session, the top of an escalator. Those are the places guests get lost, and none of them have a post in them.

Height and wording

Set a holder at standing eye level rather than as high as it goes; a sheet at eye level is read at a glance and one above head height is read by nobody. Keep the wording to a handful of words in large type — a topper is read from three feet away by someone already in the line, and it is not the place for a sponsor's full lock-up.

How many, and one thing to remember

One at the head of every line, one at each point where a guest could go two ways, and one at the back of a long switchback. Three or four covers a single-room event; a conference with parallel sessions wants more. Order toppers alongside the stanchions they mount on — a topper with no post under it is the one line item that arrives useless.