The Color of Safety

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21 points by laurex3 days ago

2 comments

hirsin34 minutes ago
The observation that the colors were meant to be absorbed over time rather than explicitly set out reminds me of the old NYC Metro mosaics. <a href="https://www.untappedcities.com/secret-meaning-behind-colors-nyc-subway/" rel="nofollow">https://www.untappedcities.com/secret-meaning-behind-colors-...</a><p>While no one would ever navigate by learning what the mosaics mean, it's a fantastic setup for the expected audience of commuters. Give it a month and your brain would associate a given color with your stop coming up soon, and make navigation easier.
- xg1523 minutes ago
  I remember having read a story about some wild dogs in Moscow apparently having learned to use the subway and establishing their own "commute schedule".<p>I always wondered how the dogs would identify the station to leave the train - counting stations or understanding how the announcements worked felt too "smart". But I imagine the simplest way for them would be to just learn the design of different stations over time and jump off once they see a familiar design through the windows.
rob742 hours ago
Related to "Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green" - Soviet designers apparently reached the same conclusion, but they applied it to aircraft cockpits instead of control rooms and used a slightly more blueish color: <a href="https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16434/why-are-russian-cockpit-panels-painted-in-turquoise" rel="nofollow">https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16434/why-are-r...</a><p>Interestingly enough, Soviet control rooms (<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Control_Room_of_Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant_Unit_3.jpg/1280px-Control_Room_of_Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant_Unit_3.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Co...</a>) were the color of Western aircraft cockpits, and vice versa...