[2] Edited first by Ediciones Libertarias and later El Observatorio, it was directed by Leopoldo Alas.
Dedicated to contemporary Spanish poetry, with poems by young Spanish authors like Vicente Gallego [es], Ángel Petisme [es], or Enric Benavent, it published a large number of well known Poets.
Signos included poetry by Jean Cocteau, Rafael Alberti, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Rainer María Rilke, Manuel Vásquez Montalbán, Leopoldo María Panero, Ana María Moix, Pere Gimferrer, Vicente Molina Foix, Fernando Savater, Luis Antonio de Villena [es], Severo Sarduy, or Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio.
It featured artists like Rafael Alberti, Roberto Gonzalez Fernandez [es], or Daniel Garbade.
The originals were presented together with the magazine in exhibitions at the Reina Sofia Museum or the Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid.