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How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'

64 pointsby quakeguyover 3 years ago

14 comments

aluminum96over 3 years ago
I&#x27;m surprised they didn&#x27;t include the SF Muni logo -- it has a really weird, almost unrecognizable M. Very distinctive.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;thumb&#x2F;9&#x2F;95&#x2F;Muni_worm_logo.svg&#x2F;1200px-Muni_worm_logo.svg.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;commons&#x2F;thumb&#x2F;9&#x2F;95&#x2F;Mu...</a>
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ljmover 3 years ago
The interesting question isn&#x27;t &#x27;how&#x27;, it&#x27;s why.<p>E.g. one of the &#x27;metro&#x27;s in the UK is a tram system in Manchester. And the one thing people might call a &#x27;metro&#x27;, when compared to other cities and countries is the London Underground, which everyone including the government[1] calls The Tube. And that&#x27;s just a red ring with a blue line through it.<p>The more I think about it, the more bizarre it makes us Brits sound. Tubes, choobs, toobays...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfl.gov.uk&#x2F;modes&#x2F;tube&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tfl.gov.uk&#x2F;modes&#x2F;tube&#x2F;</a>
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tcmbover 3 years ago
Germans don&#x27;t get to play because here it&#x27;s called U-Bahn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rapid_transit_in_Germany#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:U-Bahn.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rapid_transit_in_Germany#&#x2F;medi...</a>
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4caoover 3 years ago
Direct link to the source (large images, sorted by similarity): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mic-ro.com&#x2F;metro&#x2F;metrologos.html?size=lg&amp;sort=similarity" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mic-ro.com&#x2F;metro&#x2F;metrologos.html?size=lg&amp;sort=similar...</a>
turnercover 3 years ago
Some of the agencies here don&#x27;t fit the problem of &#x27;M&#x27; meaning &#x27;Metro&#x27;, for example the last logo (Row 7) is described as Liverpool&#x27;s metro system. It is not a metro system but a full train operating company and the &#x27;M&#x27; is for Merseyrail
RockofStrengthover 3 years ago
The Recife (Brazil) logo is just brilliant. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mapa-metro.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;brazil&#x2F;recife&#x2F;recife-metro-map.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mapa-metro.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;brazil&#x2F;recife&#x2F;recife-metro-map.htm</a>
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MiddleEndianover 3 years ago
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has solved this one!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Massachusetts_Bay_Transportation_Authority#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:MBTA.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Massachusetts_Bay_Transportati...</a>
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Reason077over 3 years ago
&gt; <i>”The universal symbol for a city’s Metro system is a big “M.”</i><p>Not in London. Or Toronto. Or Hong Kong. Or New York. Or…
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mseepgoodover 3 years ago
The letter M comes from the Egyptian &quot;water ripple&quot; hieroglyph: 𓈖 I wonder what it thinks of its descendants.
sebazzzover 3 years ago
Row two &quot;Amsterdam&quot; is also Rotterdam, although a different organization manages the metro&#x27;s (RET instead of GVB).
DavidSJover 3 years ago
The Bucharest Metro logo looks like the Wonder Woman emblem.
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WalterBrightover 3 years ago
A made-up problem, clearly requiring enormous resources to solve.
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ChrisArchitectover 3 years ago
(2015)!
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rifficover 3 years ago
you know it&#x27;d be nice if these agencies stopped trying to be cute or original, and would just use some agreed upon standard design.
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