The Funniest Funny Signs We’ve Spotted In The Wild

Updated on November 13, 2025

I popped into a strip mall for batteries and left with twelve photos of funny signs and exactly zero batteries. First flurries on the windshield, hot coffee in the cup holder, and suddenly every sidewalk sandwich board was auditioning for stand-up.

This haul’s got range: grocery aisles, park gates, office elevators, even a gas station marquee that blinked like it knew what it said. I pulled crowd-pleasers from r/CrappyDesign, a few Google Maps street views, and a Toronto bodega with Shakespearean punctuation. Expect funny sign pictures, weird signs photos, and bad signage images that will live rent-free in your camera roll.

30 Funny Signs

That opening sequence told a story without trying. You saw a door that says “Use Other Door” on both doors, a lobby placard forbidding “absolutely no exceptions, except some,” and a produce label clarifying that bananas “may contain banana.” The tight crops make these funny signs read from a glance; the plain backgrounds let the typos breathe.

Midway through, the municipal masterpieces took the ice—trail maps pointing in perfect circles, winter notices reminding you that “snow is slippery,” and a bench plaque dedicated to “whoever.” Those weird signs photos worked because the humor sat in the layout: arrows arguing, icons holding grudges, fonts switching teams mid-sentence. Tag a few under parking lot chaos for future emergencies.

Retail contributed its own poetry. A boutique promised “Buy 2 Get One Confused”; a pharmacy insisted “Open Most Days” with heroic honesty. That mall directory with a sticker saying “You Are Somewhere”? Peak bad signage images—confident, chaotic, unforgettable. Drop your favorites into translation fails so they’re easy to redeploy.

By the time you hit the cafeteria boards, the punchlines were doing laps: “Soup Of The Day: Maybe,” “No Outside Food Unless It’s For Us,” and a breakroom printout declaring “This Printer Hates You Back.” What sells these funny signs is legibility—big type, simple framing, and no extra decoration fighting the gag.

Seasonal spice helped: frosted windows around a “Caution: Ice May Be Cold” placard, a holiday banner that misspelled “cheer” into a new philosophy. The best funny sign pictures are compression-proof and corkboard-ready—save two for the office and one for the fridge under mall kiosk wisdom.

For dessert, keep a mini-kit: one sign for gentle nope, one for cheerful chaos, one for victorious shrug. With those three, you can answer most texts without typing a word.

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Jake Parker calls plays from the sidewalk, high-fives good kerning, and treats arrows like play diagrams.