What the Standard Doesn't Say

A Census of Hand-Lettered Signage's Recurrence After the Approved Signage Standard's Rollout

A poster from the School of Continuous Improvement catalogues the hand-lettered signage removed from 214 sites across eleven buildings under Facilities' Approved Signage Standard, sorting each notice into a five-category function taxonomy. A hand-lettered sign returned at 142 of the 214 sites within six weeks, with recurrence highest for fault and access-restriction notices and lowest for directional fixes, the sole function the Standard's eleven templates already cover.

@misc{slop_bf93qp,
  author       = {Joost Nwosu and Bram Ntuli},
  title        = {What the Standard Doesn't Say: A Census of Hand-Lettered Signage's Recurrence After the Approved Signage Standard's Rollout},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.bf93qp},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-cataloguing-the-hand-lettered-bf93qp/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}