— Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Sign Company in Fair Lawn, NJ
Gogi Signs designs, fabricates, prints, installs, repairs and replaces commercial signs throughout Fair Lawn — roadside identification on Broadway and Route 4, storefronts and sidewalk signs on Fair Lawn Avenue, and the directories, suite signs and facility signage that office, medical and industrial properties need.
20+ Years Experience
Serving New Jersey Since 2005
In-House Production
Fabrication & Large-Format Printing
Commercial Installation
Insured Installation Crew
Fair Lawn & Bergen County
Local Sign Service
— Sign Company in Fair Lawn
One Borough, Several Different Sign Conditions
Fair Lawn combines neighborhood retail, professional offices, medical practices, restaurants, service businesses, mixed-use properties, industrial areas and larger commercial sites around Broadway, Route 4, River Road, Fair Lawn Avenue and the surrounding business districts.
A Broadway business needs signage that reads from moving traffic. A smaller Fair Lawn Avenue storefront depends more on close-range identification, windows and entrance graphics. An office or medical tenant needs directories, suite signs, privacy film and ADA signage after customers are already inside the property. Those are three different projects, and the Borough’s zoning map treats them as different places.
Gogi Signs has handled storefront signs, channel letters, dimensional lettering, custom awnings, window graphics, office signs, directories, ADA signage, facility identification, vehicle graphics and tenant changes throughout Fair Lawn since 2005.
— Commercial Districts
Fair Lawn Has More Than One Commercial District
The zoning map separates B-1 Restricted Business, B-2 General Business, B-3 Business, B-4 and B-5 River Road Business, Office and Business Service, industrial districts and a mixed-use planned-development district. A single sign approach does not fit all of them.
B-2 & Route 4 Frontage
Broadway and Route 4
Seen from farther away and from a moving vehicle. Stronger wall-mounted identification, channel letters, window graphics and clearly marked entrances.
Neighborhood Business
Fair Lawn Avenue
Storefronts working at closer range, where dimensional letters, awnings, window graphics, door lettering and sidewalk signs do most of the work.
B-4 & B-5
River Road Business
Retail, services, restaurants and neighborhood commercial properties, with their own River Road business districts and their own storefront conditions.
OBS
Office and Business Service
Exterior identification is one part of the project. Directories, suite signs, reception signs, privacy film and ADA signage carry more of it inside.
Industrial
Industrial Districts
Building identification, door numbers, loading-area signs, directional signs and vehicle graphics matter more here than storefront-style signage.
Route 208 Corridor
Larger Commercial Sites
Building identification, wall signs, customer entrance signs, parking and internal directional signs. A visitor crosses several sign surfaces before reaching the right door.
— Roadside Identification
Broadway Businesses Need Signs That Read From the Road
Broadway includes Route 4 frontage and other commercial properties where the customer first sees the business through a windshield. That changes the specification before it changes the design.
- Viewing distance. The business should be identifiable before the customer reaches the driveway or parking area, not once they are alongside it.
- Letter height. A roadside sign generally needs more scale than one designed for sidewalk traffic.
- Position. The best mounting location follows the customer approach, the façade, neighboring signs and the available frontage.
- Contrast. Letters and logos need separation from brick, masonry, siding, glass and the surrounding commercial activity.
- Illumination. Where permitted, illuminated channel letters make identification clearer after dark.
- Copy. The main wall sign stays on the business name and logo. Service lists, hours and promotions belong on windows, doors or temporary graphics.
Fair Lawn’s commercial design standards reinforce this: sign design should complement the building’s architecture through its materials, placement, form, illumination and relationship to the façade. The sign is placed against the storefront bays, windows, entrances, architectural sign bands and neighboring tenant signs — so the largest blank area of wall is not automatically the best location.
— Sign Rules & Zoning
Fair Lawn Limits Sign Size, Quantity and Placement by District
Commercial signs are regulated through §125-41 of the Land Development Code, and the limits change with the district. What one property is allowed is not what the property across the intersection is allowed.
- Quantity and size are both capped. A 2026 commercial application on Broadway, in the B-2 district, requested four wall-mounted signs where two were permitted.
- Letter height. The same application requested 42-inch letters where the permitted height was 36 inches.
- Wall-sign area. It also requested 93.6 square feet where the limit was 75 square feet.
- Not a borough-wide allowance. Those figures came from one project. The applicable limit depends on the zoning district, building, tenant space, frontage and project.
- Office and Business Service districts. Permitted exterior signs go on the façade of the principal structure facing the front yard.
- No roof signs. In the OBS districts the top of the sign cannot extend above roof level, and roof signs are not permitted.
- Industrial districts. Qualifying business-type signage is permitted, with business-identification signs placed on street façades.
- Site-plan design standards. Signs are expected to work with the building architecture in color, form, materials, placement and illumination, with wayfinding signs sized around safe customer movement through the property.
- Variances are a real route. The Borough’s zoning materials show relief being sought where a project exceeds the permitted number of signs, letter height or sign area.
- Planning is still moving. A Route 208 Corridor Study sits among the Planning Board’s active materials, alongside a 2019 Business and Industrial District Master Plan Amendment.
Before fabrication we need the exact address, zoning district, tenant frontage, building façade, existing signage, proposed sign type and dimensions, letter height, illumination, window graphics and any property-owner requirements. The application is filed by you or your landlord. We assist with permits; we do not file them on your behalf.
— Sidewalk Signs
Fair Lawn Allows Sandwich Boards in Business Districts
The Borough amended its sign ordinance in 2024 to permit sandwich-board sidewalk signs in business districts — a route most neighboring towns do not offer. The rules are specific:
- One per business, and one along each frontage for a business fronting two streets.
- Two feet wide by three feet high maximum.
- Within the business frontage, placed closest to the business rather than out along the curb.
- 36 inches of sidewalk clearance must remain — or the required ADA-access width, whichever is greater.
- Out only while open. The sign is displayed during business hours and removed at closing.
- Durable materials with a finished appearance.
Because the board comes in and out every day and has to look finished doing it, printed A-frame graphics on a proper frame outlast paper taped to a stand. The sidewalk sign then carries the specials, appointments, new products, sales, daily offers, event information and entry directions — and the permanent building sign stays on identification.
— Our Products
Signs We Make for Fair Lawn Businesses
Our New Jersey shop produces fabricated, printed, exterior, interior, temporary and replacement signage for businesses throughout Fair Lawn.
Storefront Signs
Custom exterior identification and fabricated wall panels, built around the tenant frontage, architecture, customer approach and available sign area.
Channel Letters
Fabricated illuminated and non-illuminated letters for retailers, restaurants, offices, healthcare businesses and commercial properties.
Dimensional Letters and Logos
Metal, acrylic and PVC lettering for storefronts, exterior walls, entrances, offices, lobbies and reception areas.
Sign Cabinets and Replacement Faces
Replacement faces, tenant changes, graphics and lighting service for suitable existing cabinet signs.
Custom Awnings
Fabric awnings with business names, logos, custom colors and valance graphics, plus recovering for sound frames.
Window Graphics and Lettering
Business names, operating hours, logos, printed graphics, privacy film, decorative graphics and temporary campaigns.
Lobby and Reception Signs
Dimensional logos, acrylic signs, metal lettering, plaques and branded wall identification.
Directories
Building, floor, office, tenant and department directories for shared commercial properties.
ADA Signs
Tactile room identification, Braille signage, accessible restroom signs and directional identification.
Office and Suite Signs
Room numbers, office plaques, department signs, nameplates and replaceable tenant identification.
Facility and Directional Signs
Building identification, door numbers, shipping and receiving signs, visitor parking, employee areas and internal property directions.
Vehicle Graphics and Lettering
Commercial lettering, company logos, decals, contact information, DOT graphics where required and fleet graphics.
— How It Works
From Site Survey Through Installation
Gogi Signs has served New Jersey businesses since 2005, and handles Fair Lawn projects from the first property review through fabrication, installation and later changes.
01
Site Survey
We measure the storefront, office, commercial property, industrial building or interior area and document existing signage, windows, entrances and mounting conditions.
02
Design and Planning
Artwork is fitted to the actual property, available sign area, building architecture, materials, viewing conditions and the district requirements.
03
Fabrication and Printing
Approved projects move through fabrication, cutting, large-format printing, vinyl production, finishing and electrical assembly where applicable.
04
Installation
Our insured installation crew coordinates site access, removes existing signage where that is included, and installs the completed signs and graphics.
05
Future Service
When lighting needs repair, tenant information changes, window graphics need replacement or another sign is required, we can return to the property.
— Offices, Medical & Multi-Tenant
Office and Medical Properties Run on the Interior System
In the OBS districts the exterior sign is fixed to the front-yard façade and cannot rise above roof level, so it can only do so much. The interior system does more of the customer-guidance work: building identification, entrance signs carrying the building number and customer instructions, lobby directories, reception signs, suite signs, privacy graphics for offices, conference rooms and treatment rooms, ADA identification, and wayfinding between entrances, offices, restrooms and departments.
Medical, dental and wellness practices serve visitors who have never been to the property. A patient identifies the building, finds the entrance, locates the office, reaches reception and then reaches the correct room — five decisions, each needing a sign. Consistent terminology across all five is what keeps the sequence legible, so a department is not named one thing on the directory and another on the door.
On multi-tenant properties the same logic applies across tenants rather than across floors. A property sign family — tenant wall signs, directories, suite signs, ADA signs, window graphics, door identification, parking and directional signs, replacement tenant panels — lets a new business fit into an existing system instead of introducing another unrelated sign style.
— Industrial & Service Sites
Industrial Properties Need Identification Across the Site
Fair Lawn’s zoning map includes restricted and general industrial districts, and the ordinance permits qualifying business-type signage there with business-identification signs placed on street façades. One wall sign rarely gives a visitor enough information once they are inside a larger commercial site.
- Building identification — exterior letters, logos and company wall signs.
- Door numbers — service entrances, warehouse doors, operational spaces
- Shipping and receiving — identification for deliveries and freight
- Visitor entrance signs — clear customer and vendor entry
- Parking and directional — customer parking, employee areas, offices, service entrances
- Interior facility signs — departments, rooms, operational zones, office identification
Vehicle graphics carry the same identity off the property. For companies adding vehicles over time we keep the artwork, sizing and placement on file, so the fifth van matches the first rather than being redrawn from a photograph.
— Windows & Awnings
Windows and Awnings Carry What the Wall Sign Should Not
The permanent exterior sign has to stay identifiable from a distance, which limits how much it can say. Storefront glass and awning valances are where the detail goes.
- Windows. Operating hours near the entrance, short service or product descriptions at reading range, logos and supporting brand graphics, and promotions for openings, sales, seasonal messages and hiring.
- Privacy film. Frosted or decorative film for offices, treatment rooms, salons and professional businesses.
- Doors. Business name, suite information, hours and customer instructions.
- Awnings. Business names, logos, custom colors and valance lettering for restaurants, retailers, salons, professional offices and neighborhood businesses — defining an entrance while adding a second place for identification.
Awning graphics count as signage. We fabricate new fabric awnings, replacement fabric and new frames where required, and inspect sound existing frames for recovering — but the proposed dimensions and lettering are reviewed with the rest of the storefront package rather than ordered separately after the wall sign is already up.
— Who We Work With
Businesses We Serve Throughout Fair Lawn
Broadway retail and dining, offices and medical practices in the OBS districts, the industrial and service companies in the employment areas, and the managers who turn all of them over.
Retail Stores
Storefront signs, channel letters, dimensional lettering, window graphics, awnings and temporary promotions.
Restaurants and Cafés
Exterior signs, awnings, window graphics, sandwich boards, menu graphics and interior identification.
Medical and Healthcare
Building signs, directories, reception signs, privacy film, ADA identification and interior directional signs.
Professional Offices
Exterior identification, suite signs, directories, reception logos, privacy graphics and office signage.
Industrial and Service
Building identification, door signs, shipping and receiving signs, internal directional signs and vehicle graphics.
Property Managers
Tenant changes, directories, replacement signs, window graphics, parking signs, repair work and sign removal.
Contractors and Trades
Vehicle lettering, office signs, building identification, decals, banners and commercial graphics.
Multi-Location Businesses
Recurring signage adapted to each property and district rather than copying one sign size between locations.
— Tenant Changeover
Moving Into an Existing Fair Lawn Business Space?
What is already mounted decides how much of the project is fabrication and how much is conversion, so the existing components are surveyed before anything is quoted as a replacement.
What you may inherit
- Channel-letter raceways and electrical wiring
- Wall-sign mounting and sign cabinets
- Awning frames
- Window vinyl and door lettering
- Directory systems and suite signs
- Reception, parking and directional signs
A usable cabinet may need only a new face, a sound awning frame may be recoverable, existing mounting may work with the new sign and a directory may need one tenant panel changed. Other components come out because they are damaged, outdated, unsafe or unsuitable for the incoming business.
What the changeover covers
- Previous sign removal
- Existing-condition survey and building measurements
- New exterior identification and channel-letter replacement
- Replacement sign faces and awning recovering
- Window-vinyl removal and new window graphics
- Door lettering and directory updates
- Suite signs and interior identification
- Banners, coming-soon displays and opening graphics
- Final installation
Fair Lawn’s retail properties, office buildings, professional centers, industrial buildings and multi-tenant developments turn tenants over on a rolling basis. Where the tenant-specific pieces are individually replaceable from the outset, the next change is a panel swap that leaves the rest of the property consistent.
— Repair & Refacing
Sign Repair, Refacing and Replacement
There is a substantial amount of established commercial signage along Broadway, Fair Lawn Avenue, River Road and through the office and industrial areas. LEDs fail, sign faces fade, letters loosen, vinyl wears, awning fabric ages, electrical components fail, tenant names change and directory listings go out of date.
Gogi Signs repairs and updates commercial signs even when another company originally fabricated them. Common service work includes:
- Channel-letter repair
- LED and electrical service
- Replacement sign faces
- Dimensional-letter repair
- Awning recovering
- Window-vinyl replacement
- Directory updates
- Tenant-panel replacement
- Sign removal
- Interior sign replacement
- New tenant conversion
- Facility sign replacement
Where the existing sign remains useful, repair or refacing usually makes more sense than replacement. Where continued repair is no longer practical, we fabricate a new sign to the limits that apply at that address.
— Serving Fair Lawn
Serving Fair Lawn and Bergen County
Gogi Signs serves commercial properties throughout Fair Lawn, including businesses around:
- Broadway
- Route 4
- Fair Lawn Avenue
- River Road
- Saddle River Road
- Route 208
The Borough’s zoning framework includes several business, office, industrial and mixed-use districts, reflecting a mix of neighborhood storefronts, regional commercial properties, offices and employment areas within one municipality.
For businesses with additional Bergen County locations — Paramus, Hackensack, Fort Lee, Edgewater, Glen Rock, Ridgewood, Paterson and the surrounding towns — our New Jersey shop can maintain common artwork and production standards while adapting each package to the individual municipality and property.
2005
Serving New Jersey since
12
Municipalities covered
Insured
Commercial installation crew
In-house
Fabrication & large-format printing
— Get Started
Planning a Sign Project in Fair Lawn?
Whether you are opening a Broadway storefront, moving into an office, changing tenants in a retail property, updating a medical practice, recovering an awning, adding window graphics, producing a sidewalk sign, branding company vehicles or repairing existing signage, start with the exact property address and photographs.
Gogi Signs can handle site measurements, sign drawings, fabrication, large-format printing, installation, repair and future sign changes from our New Jersey shop.
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- Serving New Jersey since 2005
- In-house fabrication and printing
- Insured installation crew
- Repair and refacing on existing signs
— FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions About Signs in Fair Lawn
The permitted number depends on the property and zoning district. A 2026 B-2 application on Broadway identifies two wall-mounted signs as the permitted quantity for that particular project, with a variance requested for four.
That same B-2 Broadway application identifies 36 inches as the permitted letter height for the project, with relief requested for 42-inch letters. The standard should still be checked against the specific property and zone.
Yes. Fair Lawn permits one sandwich board for businesses in business districts, with a second possible for a business fronting two streets. The sign may be up to two feet wide and three feet high.
The sign cannot reduce pedestrian clearance below 36 inches or the required ADA-access width, whichever is greater. It also has to sit within the business frontage, closest to the business rather than at the curb.
No. Fair Lawn requires the sign to be removed when the business closes, and prohibits attaching balloons, streamers or banners to it.
Not in the Office and Business Service districts. Permitted exterior signs go on the façade of the principal structure facing the front yard, and the top of the sign cannot extend above roof level.
Yes. We produce exterior identification, directories, reception signs, suite signs, ADA signage, privacy graphics and interior directional signs.
Sometimes. We inspect existing cabinets, mounting, wiring, awning frames, directories and other components before deciding what can reasonably be reused.
Yes. We produce building identification, door signs, shipping and receiving identification, internal directional signs, office signs and vehicle graphics.
Send the exact property address, storefront or building photographs, your logo or artwork, photographs of existing signage, and any landlord or property sign requirements you already have.