ADA Compliant Signage in Colorado Springs

Name: FASTSIGNS® of Colorado Springs, CO - Central
Address: 2510 E. Boulder St, Colorado Springs, CO, 80909, USA
Telephone: (719) 628-1731

Regulatory Signs, Safety Signs & Custom Accessible Signage for Colorado Springs Businesses

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires public and private buildings to provide signage marking permanent rooms and spaces to support accessibility. That requirement doesn’t come with a checklist at permit time, and getting the details wrong means corrections, costs, and potential liability. At FASTSIGNS® of Colorado Springs, CO - Central, we produce regulatory signs, safety signs, and custom accessible signage for Colorado Springs businesses, and we verify compliance before anything goes to production.

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At FASTSIGNS® of Colorado Springs, CO - Central, we produce regulatory signs, safety signs, and custom accessible signage for Colorado Springs businesses. We’re locally owned and operated, and we verify compliance before anything goes to production.

Ready to get your signage right the first time? Call us at (719) 628-1731 to request a quote for regulatory, safety, or ADA compliant signage in Colorado Springs.

Three Sign Categories, One Source

Regulatory Signs, Safety Signs, and Custom Accessible Signage cover distinct functions, but they often appear together in the same building and need to work as a cohesive system.

Regulatory Signs

Regulatory signs inform visitors of laws, regulations, and requirements. You’ll find them in permanent-use areas: stairwells, elevators, fire exits, entryways, and parking lots. These signs carry legal weight, so accuracy in content and format matters.

Safety Signs

Common safety signage includes exit, fire exit, emergency exit, no smoking, smoke-free workplace, fire extinguisher, and safety directional signs. Placement and legibility from a safe distance are the two factors that determine whether these signs actually protect people.

Custom Accessible (ADA) Signage

Not every sign in your facility requires Braille. Only signs identifying permanent rooms or spaces, such as restrooms, exits, and stairwells, carry that requirement. Informational, directional, and temporary signs are exempt. That distinction matters when you’re budgeting a signage package for a Colorado Springs facility.

What ADA Sign Requirements Actually Specify

Colorado’s adopted building code references ICC A117.1, Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities, as its accessibility standard, intended to meet or exceed federal ADA requirements. Here’s what that means in practice for permanent-space signs.

Tactile Characters & Braille
ADA-compliant signs identifying permanent rooms must include raised tactile characters duplicated in Grade 2 Braille (the contracted form used in standard signage), positioned directly below the corresponding text.

Character Style & Dimensions
Raised characters must be sans serif, non-italic, and between 5/8 inch and 2 inches in height, raised at least 1/32 inch above the background. Decorative or script fonts don’t qualify.

Contrast & Finish
Signs must show light-on-dark or dark-on-light contrast with a non-glare finish on both characters and background. The standards don’t set an exact contrast percentage, but higher contrast means better legibility for people with low vision.

Mounting Height
Tactile characters must be mounted so the baseline of the lowest character sits at least 48 inches above the finished floor, with the highest no more than 60 inches above it.

Door-Side Placement
Tactile signs belong on the latch side of the door, with an 18-by-18-inch clear floor space beyond the door’s swing. Signs aren’t mounted on the door itself.

We review each sign’s specifics against ADA requirements and confirm compliance before production begins, so you don’t discover a mounting-height error after installation.

Design, Compliance Verification, & Installation From One Team

Many signage projects separate compliance review from design and installation, leaving the business to coordinate between parties. We don’t work that way. FASTSIGNS® of Colorado Springs, CO - Central handles content development, graphic design, project management, and custom sign production from concept through installation, with ADA compliance verification built into that process rather than added on at the end.

We produce ADA compliant signs, including Braille and graphic signs, that combine functional compliance with custom design. The International Symbol of Accessibility, pictograms, and your brand elements can all be incorporated within the requirements. Our Colorado Springs customers have given us a 4.9 average rating, and a consistent reason is that they didn’t have to manage the process themselves.

Permitting for Colorado Springs Signage Projects

The Pikes Peak Regional Building Department reviews plans, issues permits, and performs inspections for Colorado Springs and the rest of El Paso County. For larger accessible-signage projects that require plan review, we provide survey and permitting services as part of our process. You won’t need to navigate that separately.

Request a Quote for Regulatory, Safety, or ADA Signage

Whether you’re outfitting a new Colorado Springs facility, updating existing signs to meet current standards, or adding safety signage to a specific area, we can take the project from the first conversation to a finished, installed sign system.

Call (719) 628-1731 or stop by and speak with our team at FASTSIGNS® of Colorado Springs, CO - Central. Tell us what you need, and we’ll get a quote started.

Safety Sign Colors & Pictograms

Safety sign color coding follows a consistent standard that lets people interpret a sign’s meaning before they read a word of text. Understanding the system helps when specifying new signs or auditing what you already have.

Standard safety sign color meanings:

Red: Prohibition or fire equipment signs
Blue: Mandatory instructions
Yellow: Warning or hazard
Green: Safe condition
Black: General information

A pictogram is a symbol that represents a word or idea through pictorial resemblance. Pictograms communicate hazards or directions without relying on text, which makes them useful in multilingual environments and in situations where someone needs to process information quickly. ADA-compliant signs that include pictograms follow specific field-size and placement rules to keep tactile characters and Braille in the required position.

Matching Sign Size to Viewing Distance

A sign legible from two feet away isn’t adequate in a warehouse aisle or a large parking structure. Sign size should be determined by the distance from which someone needs to read it: larger spaces and higher-stakes hazards call for larger signs, and character height scales accordingly.

When we quote a safety or regulatory signage project, we account for the actual installation environment, not just the sign face. That means asking about ceiling height, aisle width, lighting conditions, and where a reader will be standing when the sign needs to reach them.