fawny

Four phases of the side destination sign on an Orion VII.

Four blocks of LED text read: 126 TO CHRISTIE STN · OLD TTC TICKETS? · ADULTS +15 CENTS · SEN/STU +10 CENTS

The bus tells you where it’s going only a quarter of the time. The front sign breaks the same information into three phases, telling you where the bus is going only a third of the time (updated example below).

Three blocks of LED text read: 94 WELLESLEY TO CASTLE FRANK STN · OLD TTC TICKETS? · ADULTS +15 CENTS · SENIORS/STUDENTS +10 CENTS

I’ve seen this before (with signs alternating destination with I’M A NEW BUS or, inexplicably, THE FUTURE IS HERE), but the cost in information content is too high. Tell me where the bus is going, please. (Did you know there is actual research on how to use these “variable-message” signs properly?)

What exactly is a “SEN/STU,” and isn’t there a ¢ symbol?

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2007.11.16 18:06. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
http://blog.fawny.org/2007/11/16/sen-stu/

Adjacent postings

← Previous
Hot firemens action, 2007
Next →
352½
Start

Values you enter are stored and may be published.

  

Search for very early blog entries, and for anything else on fawny.org:

  

Information

Other reading

FriendFeed puts everything in one place.

Popular topics

Photographs to look at · Typography; graphic design; the death of design criticism · Leslieville · TTC · Canadian English · Accessibility

Archives by date

Just add /year/month/day/ to the end of site’s URL, blog.fawny.org. You can add just /year/month/, or just /year/, if you wish. Years are four-digit, month and day two-digit (with padding zero below 10). For example:

Very old archives are still available.

Archives by category

Copyright © Joe Clark 2004–2010. All rights reserved.

You enjoy fawny.blog