I was at Highbury and Islington station the other day and found the signs really confusing. Just have it prominently displayed where the lines go!
They’re running out of colours!
It was worse when it was all orange imo.
It’s either all orange or shades of orange! Pick your poison!
Yes. It’s horrible.
Not particularly
No because I learnt the difference between red blue and purple in nursery.
Yes and the trains don’t match either. Should have just left it.
The new names are completely baffling
There’s too many now defo
A week ago they were all the exact same shade of orange, so this is a big improvement.
I was thinking the same but unfortunately we run out of colours
I agree. Who would go to Bethnal Green? It’s so confusing
They could always introduced patterned lines!
Ones purple the other colour is called fuchsia
I actually haven’t used the tube/overground since the change but do feel like inside a train station with many lines (Stratford for example) a solid orange would be more easy to understand than the double blue (which I might get confused with the double purple of the Elizabeth line). But then if there’s some stations with 2 Overground lines that would already have had the issue of “which one is which?”.
I trust TFL have solid designers to have thought this out though.
I don’t doubt there will be teething issues at the start but I think distinguishing between them is a good move.
Maybe if they seemed like completely different brands (like U-bahn and S-bahn in Berlin) it would have been easier. Rather than all TFL services having the same roundel. Overground previously having National Rail branding seemed like a good distinction before, at least for in-station navigation.
I find the names peculiar. Weaver, Mildmay, and Lioness 🥴. Suffragette & Windrush are the only bearable ones. About time there was some actual recognition for the Caribbean community. R.I.P Smiley Culture
So fking dumb
I’m red-green-brown colourblind outside of bright versions and it’s a nightmare
I preferred just orange! No other line is currently using orange as well.
It’s the fact that they’re thin lines with white in the middle…
Am colourblind. I find all colours difficult to distinguish
My colorblind ass doesn’t use the colors anyways
They should have got rid of the Central line on the new maps since it barely runs any trains then we’d at least have an extra colour to play with.
This part of the map will always be confusing no matter what colours are used
At least they’re not all orange yet not remotely the same train 🙈
It’s definitely more within the range of red than the “extended red palette” of the originally brighter orange. If this is the same as 5 years ago whilst living SE and constantly using the OG then it’s tonally closer to Central (most used) than a more typical orange. I cannot believe I wrote a post on this. But then, I am not colourblind and I see the colour *this* way. The purple hues are distinct and separated geometrically, normal as to my knowledge of the met line and the one added.
Pink may pose a problem as not everybody reads it the same way, it depends if you’re a seasoned city dweller or tourist often visiting, then the map gets more confusing as I should imagine myself (born in Westminster, lived all over) on the NYC subway. Now that would be an ‘experience’, colouring way outside of our lines…
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I was at Highbury and Islington station the other day and found the signs really confusing. Just have it prominently displayed where the lines go!
They’re running out of colours!
It was worse when it was all orange imo.
It’s either all orange or shades of orange! Pick your poison!
Yes. It’s horrible.
Not particularly
No because I learnt the difference between red blue and purple in nursery.
Yes and the trains don’t match either. Should have just left it.
The new names are completely baffling
There’s too many now defo
A week ago they were all the exact same shade of orange, so this is a big improvement.
I was thinking the same but unfortunately we run out of colours
I agree. Who would go to Bethnal Green? It’s so confusing
They could always introduced patterned lines!
Ones purple the other colour is called fuchsia
I actually haven’t used the tube/overground since the change but do feel like inside a train station with many lines (Stratford for example) a solid orange would be more easy to understand than the double blue (which I might get confused with the double purple of the Elizabeth line). But then if there’s some stations with 2 Overground lines that would already have had the issue of “which one is which?”.
I trust TFL have solid designers to have thought this out though.
I don’t doubt there will be teething issues at the start but I think distinguishing between them is a good move.
Maybe if they seemed like completely different brands (like U-bahn and S-bahn in Berlin) it would have been easier. Rather than all TFL services having the same roundel. Overground previously having National Rail branding seemed like a good distinction before, at least for in-station navigation.
I find the names peculiar. Weaver, Mildmay, and Lioness 🥴. Suffragette & Windrush are the only bearable ones. About time there was some actual recognition for the Caribbean community. R.I.P Smiley Culture
So fking dumb
I’m red-green-brown colourblind outside of bright versions and it’s a nightmare
I preferred just orange! No other line is currently using orange as well.
It’s the fact that they’re thin lines with white in the middle…
Am colourblind. I find all colours difficult to distinguish
My colorblind ass doesn’t use the colors anyways
They should have got rid of the Central line on the new maps since it barely runs any trains then we’d at least have an extra colour to play with.
This part of the map will always be confusing no matter what colours are used
At least they’re not all orange yet not remotely the same train 🙈
It’s definitely more within the range of red than the “extended red palette” of the originally brighter orange. If this is the same as 5 years ago whilst living SE and constantly using the OG then it’s tonally closer to Central (most used) than a more typical orange. I cannot believe I wrote a post on this. But then, I am not colourblind and I see the colour *this* way. The purple hues are distinct and separated geometrically, normal as to my knowledge of the met line and the one added.
Pink may pose a problem as not everybody reads it the same way, it depends if you’re a seasoned city dweller or tourist often visiting, then the map gets more confusing as I should imagine myself (born in Westminster, lived all over) on the NYC subway. Now that would be an ‘experience’, colouring way outside of our lines…
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