[TheTigerMaster]

I see the logic in it as this looks like a copy and paste of London's wayfinding standards. However, I agree that the transport modes iconography seem difficult to distinguish from a distance unlike TfL's roundel which are distinguishable through their colours.

I wonder how many of the designers involved in the creation of the design systems in Metrolinx have actually lived in Toronto for any significant portion of time. Both the station naming and the wayfinding standard appear to be a copy of the Transport for London system, with little regard for local customs. I specifically look to how Metrolinx has named many stations after neighbourhood names that see little real-world usage outside of official maps.

Just overall this whole design system seems poorly conceived and sloppily implemented. Metrolinx needs to do better than this. They’ve spent too much of our money for this poor level of quality to be acceptable.

 

[Johnny Au]

Cedarvale station on June 5, 2021:

 

[EnviroTO]

idk about you guys but I always found mixed case harder to read especially on signage. Also mixed case looks really weird and awkward when placed on a banner especially on an entranceway.

Mixed case, if the right font, is easier to read because the letter shapes are more distinct with bdfhklt being taller and gjpqy going below the line. When capitalized letters are more visible it is only because they are massive.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

I wonder how many of the designers involved in the creation of the design systems in Metrolinx have actually lived in Toronto for any significant portion of time. Both the station naming and the wayfinding standard appear to be a copy of the Transport for London system, with little regard for local customs. I specifically look to how Metrolinx has named many stations after neighbourhood names that see little real-world usage outside of official maps.

Just overall this whole design system seems poorly conceived and sloppily implemented. Metrolinx needs to do better than this. They’ve spent too much of our money for this poor level of quality to be acceptable.

When the subway opened in Toronto in 1954, they used words. No pictographs, other than the TTC logo.

From link.

The logo itself has undergone many variations over the years.

 

[nfitz]

The logo itself has undergone many variations over the years.

Surprisingly few really given the signage at new entrances.

 

[Johnny Au]

Main entrance of Oakwood station on June 16, 2021:

Secondary entrance photos of Oakwood station will be posted tomorrow

 

[Johnny Au]

Part 2 of 2

Here are the Oakwood station secondary entrance photos taken on June 16, 2021:

 

[Undead]

Laird station from today:

Sunnybrook:

 

[Coolstar]

Leaside station from today:

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Sunnybrook:

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That's Laird Station, not Leaside.

 

[Johnny Au]

Fairbank station on June 17, 2021:

Northwest and southwest corners::

Southeast corner:

 

[Aplus23]

There's an entrance right infront of a shoppers lol, literally blocking the window?

 

[adHominem]

There's an entrance right infront of a shoppers lol, literally blocking the window?

To be fair, Shoppers always block their own windows with vinyl advertising clings, so this is actually an improvement.

 

[robmausser]

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Bit of an aside, but my favourite example of this is that in 2008, at a world electricity convention, the IEEE came out with a universal power outlet standard for the world to incorporate, Type N. The hope was to create a single standard that the world would use, negating the complicated mess of different plug types. Just two, one for 110v and one for 220v, very similar in standard.

Brazil at the time was looking for a new outlet to standardize the several different outlet types and voltages found around the country. So, they thought "hey, heres this new universal standard outlet that the world is going to use, lets jump on this and be early adopters, but then we will be poised to be compatible with this new world standard." Rather than use the European outlet type, (Type C) which is really the most widely adopted.

As of 2021 the number of countries using the new universal world stanard type N plug: One. Brazil.

 

[Northern Light]

From a report to the next BOD meeting of Metrolinx:

Report here: http://www.metrolinx.com/en/docs/pd...10624_BoardMtg_Capital_Projects_Quarterly.pdf

 

[Johnny Au]

Caledonia station on June 18, 2021: