{"id":805,"date":"2022-10-18T12:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/?page_id=805"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:57:10","slug":"colour-contrast-on-signs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/design-needs\/exteriors-and-interiors\/signage\/colour-contrast-on-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour Contrast on Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The contrast between a signboard and its surrounding surface (e.g., an indoor wall or vegetation behind a freestanding sign outdoors) should be at least 50 per cent based on the formula described in the section <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/design-needs\/design-basics\/colour-and-brightness-contrast\/\">Colour and Brightness Contrast<\/a>. Characters and pictograms on signs should contrast in colour by at least 70 per cent to their background.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-305\" src=\"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fig3-7-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"A sign at eye level. The sign is colour contrasted to the surrounding wall. Tiresias font is used in a colour that contrasts with the sign\u2019s black background.\" width=\"339\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fig3-7-4-1.jpg 675w, https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fig3-7-4-1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at eye level. The sign is colour contrasted to the surrounding wall. Tiresias font is used in a colour that contrasts with the sign\u2019s black background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For people impacted by blindness, white lettering on a dark background is generally easier to read than dark lettering on a white background.<\/p>\n<table class=\"clear\">\n<caption>There are several effective combinations for signs when choosing colours for a surrounding surface, sign background (signboard) and lettering:<\/caption>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Background surface<\/th>\n<th>Sign background<\/th>\n<th>Lettering colour<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Light brick or light stone<\/td>\n<td>Dark (black preferred)<\/td>\n<td>White or yellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Whitewashed wall<\/td>\n<td>Dark (black preferred)<\/td>\n<td>White or yellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Red brick or dark stone<\/td>\n<td>White<\/td>\n<td>Black, dark green or dark blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Green vegetation<\/td>\n<td>White<\/td>\n<td>Black, dark green or dark blue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contrast between a signboard and its surrounding surface (e.g., an indoor wall or vegetation behind a freestanding sign outdoors) should be at least 50 per cent based on the formula described in the section Colour and Brightness Contrast. Characters and pictograms on signs should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":493,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-805","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/805\/revisions\/807"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingourpath.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}