From storefronts to commercial sites across Vancouver, storefront and fascia signs help your brand get noticed. Get matched with vetted local fabricators and compare free quotes through Vancouver Signage Shop.
A fascia sign is the flat band of signage that runs along the face of your building, above the door and windows, where the name of the shop lives. It is the single most important piece of identification most businesses buy, because it is what a customer reads first from the sidewalk or a passing car. The storefront signs Vancouver retailers order range from a printed and dimensional backer panel to raised lettering mounted straight to the fascia, often combined with a permit compliant sign band during a fit-out.
The common builds are a routed or flat aluminium panel with vinyl or dimensional graphics, push-through acrylic lettering on a backer, and applied dimensional or 3D letters. Many storefronts combine a fascia band with channel letters for the main name and a blade or projecting sign for pedestrian traffic. The material choice comes down to your frontage, whether it needs to be lit, and how the landlord’s sign band is set up.
Fascia signage is on the critical path for almost every new location, so it is usually the first thing a fit-out team briefs. It is also the most common rebrand item when a franchise updates its brand standards or a tenant refreshes a tired frontage. Because the sign band is often shared or governed by a landlord across a retail row, getting the size, projection and mounting right the first time matters.
The City of Vancouver Sign By-law sets distinct rules for signs on the first storey versus the second and upper storeys of a building, and most exterior fascia signs need a permit before they go up. Installing first and asking later risks removal at your expense. If the sign is illuminated, a licensed electrical contractor also pulls a separate electrical permit. The vetted local shops we match you with know these fascia rules by district and build to them. For background, see our Vancouver sign permit guide and the Vancouver city hub.
It depends on size, whether it is lit, and the mounting. Simple non-illuminated fascia panels sit at the lower end of published ranges, while illuminated storefront programs run into several thousand Canadian dollars or more. We match you to shops that quote your exact frontage rather than guess.
A legitimate sign shop handles the sign permit, and the electrical permit if the sign is lit. That is a green flag, and it is standard for the shops in our network.
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