{"id":18479,"date":"2016-09-23T22:49:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T02:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18479"},"modified":"2016-10-04T23:53:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T03:53:02","slug":"cut-vinyl-outline-retrofit-for-rockart-directional-arrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/cut-vinyl-outline-retrofit-for-rockart-directional-arrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut Vinyl Outline Retrofit for Rockart Directional Arrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/biking\/IMG_20160923_171703.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Before and after of adding a black cut vinyl outline to the yellow arrows at River Bends Park.\" src=\"\/gallery\/d\/110303-2\/IMG_20160923_171703.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year <a href=\"http:\/\/cramba.org\">CRAMBA<\/a> took on a project to install durable trail\u00a0marking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cramba.org\/our-trails\/river-bends-park\/\">River Bends Park<\/a> using fiberglass marking posts and decals from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockartsigns.com\/d72\/\">Rockart<\/a>. After installation a significant\u00a0lingering issues was the visibility\u00a0of the decals for the <em>Single Track: Yellow (Main Trail)<\/em> sections. The stock Rockart decals (eg: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockartsigns.com\/d72\/product\/10-124\">10-124<\/a>) are a single color printed over a reflective white base, and even with ordering\u00a0gold color decals (eg: 10-124-10, a darker yellow) the contrast was so low that the arrow was hard to see.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0considered\u00a0a few different options including custom decals, hand-tracing the arrows with markers, or re-coloring this loop, but\u00a0settled on retrofitting the existing decals with\u00a0cut vinyl\u00a0outlines. One of our volunteers &#8212; Ken Markiewicz \u00a0&#8212; made short work of getting us enough cut vinyl\u00a0to fix up all the signs in the park, and as seen above\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0radically improves the\u00a0visibility of the decals.<\/p>\n<p>So that others running into similar decal contrast problems can do the same, I am providing the templates here under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/legalcode\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license<\/a>, for all to use:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/files\/vinylcut_toppers_for_yellowgold.zip\">vinylcut_toppers_for_yellowgold.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This template contains outlines for both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockartsigns.com\/d72\/product\/10-124\">10-124 (straight)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockartsigns.com\/d72\/product\/10-125-01\">10-125 (diagonal)<\/a> decals. Outlines are 2.5mm wide with the outer curved square placed evenly over\u00a0outer colored\/white edge and the arrow inset on the white area. We found this provided the\u00a0best result for keeping the arrow visually separate from the outline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year CRAMBA took on a project to install durable trail\u00a0marking at River Bends Park using fiberglass marking posts and decals from Rockart. After&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/23\/cut-vinyl-outline-retrofit-for-rockart-directional-arrows\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cut Vinyl Outline Retrofit for Rockart Directional Arrows<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-making-things","category-outdoors","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18494,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18479\/revisions\/18494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}