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English translation: fascia (sign)


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French term or phrase:fronton
English translation:fascia (sign)
Entered by: Peter Shortall
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Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations / Signage
French term or phrase: fronton
Listed as a product made by a company specialising in advertising & signage. I'm aware of the meaning in architecture - pediment - but am unable to find the specific term used in advertising. Frontage advertisement/banner advertisement??
Thanks for any suggestions provided
Dean Frances
France
Local time: 06:31
fascia (sign)
Explanation:
This is what we called them at the place I used to work.

"The fascia signs at the top of the shop fronts are particularly important in a Conservation Area like Covent Garden for determining the overall character of the streets..."

"An application for advertisement consent is not required to display a new sign, or alter an existing sign such as a fascia sign above a shopfront providing the following criteria are met..."
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Peter Shortall
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:31
Grading comment
Many thanks- this is what I used
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2fascia (sign)
Peter Shortall
3 +1facing
Bourth
3 +1front signage
Cornelia Serban


  

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front signage


Explanation:
Illuminated shop front signage - vehicle graphics - 3D carved ...
Our range of products and services includes both illuminated and non illuminated shop front signage, vehicle graphics, 3D carved signs and letters, ...
www.le-graphics.com/ - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

Shop Front Signs - Fascia Signs - Signage - Brighton London Wales
High quality shop front signs and signage. We produce traditional signwriting, gilding, self adhesive vinyl lettering, cut out perspex and metal lettering ...
www.signmakers-brighton.co.uk/shop_fascia_signs.html - 24k - Cached - Similar page

Cornelia Serban
Malta
Local time: 06:31
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian

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fascia (sign)


Explanation:
This is what we called them at the place I used to work.

"The fascia signs at the top of the shop fronts are particularly important in a Conservation Area like Covent Garden for determining the overall character of the streets..."

"An application for advertisement consent is not required to display a new sign, or alter an existing sign such as a fascia sign above a shopfront providing the following criteria are met..."


    Reference: http://www.cgareatrust.org.uk/buildings/shop_signs.htm
    Reference: http://www.solihull.gov.uk/section.asp?catid=1943
Peter Shortall
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:31
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Grading comment
Many thanks- this is what I used

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facing


Explanation:
FRONTON
Elément, panneau publicitaire placé en haut d'un matériel de P.L.V, d'un étalage, d'une tête de gondole
http://www.ucad.fr/fr/09doc/02publicite/pagefdef.html#FRONTO...


facing (E) - "facing", front de vente (F) : unité de présentation d'un produit, vu de face sur une étagère de gondole.
A single, front-view exposure of a retail item on a store shelf.
[Dict. Bilingue de la publicité et de la communication, Duvillier & Grüber]


Then there's something different:

Panneau Fronton : 10m x 1m - Tribune Sud, face Pelouse : 7m x 0.9m - Tribune Sud, face Pelouse : 7m x 0.9m - Tribune Sud, retour fosse présidentielle : (2x) ...
www.rcstrasbourg.fr/partl4.php


Bourth
France
Local time: 06:31
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 19

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