After many years as a commercial, non-electrical sign company, specializing in high quality architectural signage, we began, in 1992, to specialize in accessible signs -- signs that would meet the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Over the years, we have become the most knowledgable company, possibly in the entire country, about the standards, how and why they came to be, and how to comply with them and still provide unique and beautiful sign systems that complement the architecture of the facility.

We actually have two family companies under one roof, that work seamlessly together: H Toji and Company, our licensed sign contractor company, founded by Tosh Toji in 1954, and Access Communications, our ADA communications consulting company, founded by Sharon Toji after she joined the family and the company in 1980. Now, with the death of our founder, Tosh Toji, we move into a new era, merging with Focus Signs and Graphics, led by John Purcell, and moving to join him in Costa Mesa. After a year of transition, H Toji and Company's assets will be part of Focus Signs and Graphics, but the products will continue with the H Toji and Company quality.

Back in the early fifties, Hitoshi (Tosh) Toji started his first job making signs in a drug store, and then opened his own shop in Los Angeles, originally Crenshaw Signs, with $500 he had saved. To prepare, he took a course at Los Angeles Trade Tech. He walked up and down the streets in that area, selling signs. A couple of them are still displayed. However, he decided his talent was not in sign painting, which was the way most signs were created back then but in managing the business, so he hired a sign painter and a fabricator-installer, and from that, his business grew and was highly successful. All his work came from word of mouth recommendations, because of its quality. Fast forward to the late seventies, when he met Sharon Sircello, and bought his first "modern" machine that created vinyl die cut letters. They were able to create all the signs for "West Week" at the Pacific Design Center with this machine. Then came the Gerber, and the rest is history!