FAQs

We want to make it easy for residents and visitors to find their way around Kingston’s many parks, pathways, shopping precincts etc

Simple, clear signage is important as it allows people of all abilities to move around an area quickly and safely.
 

Designing good signage is surprisingly complex – with best practice recommending that signs need to be simple, easy to read, easy to understand and accessible for all.  The strategy guides how to do this including:  font sizes and best colours for vision impaired people, height of information, use of symbols, simple English, heads-up maps and more.
You can read more in the Draft Strategy in the Document Library. 

Kingston has a lot of varied signs around our area.   Some of them are good, but some of them are quite old and need replacing.  We want to provide a consistent approach moving forward, with signs following an agreed format that uses contemporary best practice.

The Draft Strategy features some case studies of areas that have introduced wayfinding strategies to help guide their signage.  See pages 24-26 of the Draft Strategy in the Document Library to see the examples.

Council is yet to consider how much funding to invest into new signage across our city.
Currently we are looking to adopt a strategy to guide any future signage.
Whether that happens quickly or over a longer period of time would be up to Council to consider as part of its annual budget process.