Designing with Ansi – Part 2

Transit vehicle and bus safety and caution decals

Let’s bother our ANSI guru again with some more ANSI questions! Safety decal design part 2! More excitement! More questions and more answers. This time we ask our guru some design specific questions on how we design using the ANSI Z535 standard. How did you choose the typeface for ANSI and what is it?The Z353…

COVID-19 Transit Messaging

Unfortunately, after over a year of restrictions, lockdowns, masking, and vaccines, the COVID-19 pandemic is still not a thing of the past. At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 there was a lot of confusion on what was a requirement and what was optional for messaging on a transit vehicle. Our design team whipped…

Public Safety Decals: Designing with Ansi – Part 1

Transit vehicle and bus safety and caution decals

Sorting Public Safety Decal Design Standards Public Safety Decals designed by Seifert Transit Graphics using the ANSI Standard. What goes into designing quality public safety decals? What makes something “stick out” or “pop” to grab your attention? Why did we decide to use certain messaging over others? We asked our safety decal expert the most…

Vigor – Sticking to it All

Ever since the early 90s there was a push in the transit industry for lighter (better fuel economy), graffiti resistant (nasty vandals), and cheaper (we love saving money) plastics for use on the interior of buses and trains. Many of the plastics used today are composed of PVC or acrylics and are textured. Sounds awesome,…