Toronto Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

EnviroTO said:
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Interesting... why is the colour not blue??
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If it weren't for the line's name being printed, it'd be almost as if they did decide to renumber Sheppard to 3 (with the SRT gone), and the OL to 4, thereby grouping all 3 legacy subway lines together and the OL coming right after them.

reinventingthewheel said:
Blue is not a great choice in proximity with yellow and green (Yonge and Bloor-Danforth lines). From an accessibility perspective, certain colour blind travellers may have difficulty distinguishing the blue from green.
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As was recently mentioned in another thread, purple doesn't look as good combined with yellow & green, but having blue in between yellow/green & purple does bring a nice balance to it. Anyway I don't think many people would've mistaken the SRT to be a continuation of line 2 rather than a separate line, else they would've rebranded the SRT a different color a long time ago.

Edit: on 2nd thought, I too think it's not worth renumbering Sheppard to 3 and OL to 4, because such a change would imply grouping the purple with the yellow & green (yellow, green, purple, blue, in order), and seeing 3 as purple might be a bit counterintuitive. Which means they'd also need to rebrand Sheppard as SRT blue and the OL as purple (which would primarily intersect yellow & green), at which point even I think, why bother, better to keep the current arrangement of lines 1, 2, 3, 4 being yellow, green, blue, purple, in order.
 
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tmustudent9 said:
Was this included in the East Harbour documents that were released today?
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Yes - it's on some of the pages in the 60% Signage and Wayfinding drawing set. Which is poorly named as simply "Plans and Drawings" on the city website - https://www.toronto.ca/city-governm...nt/application-details/?id=5211102&pid=694908

I don't see a big issue in the blue shade shifting a bit. I'm just happy they are going to use Line 3 instead of going some weird Metrolinx branding thing using letters or Greek symbols.
 
nfitz said:
Yes - it's on some of the pages in the 60% Signage and Wayfinding drawing set. Which is poorly named as simply "Plans and Drawings" on the city website - https://www.toronto.ca/city-governm...nt/application-details/?id=5211102&pid=694908

I don't see a big issue in the blue shade shifting a bit. I'm just happy they are going to use Line 3 instead of going some weird Metrolinx branding thing using letters or Greek symbols.
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unless I've gone colour blind, it's clearly purple not blue.
 
It seems like this new Line 3 - Ontario Line indigo colour is a little to similar to the Sheppard Line colour to me. Originally the wayfinding material suggested a more pale blue with black lettering (in contrast with the white lettering on the yellow and green line) which would have been easily distinguishable.
 
EnviroTO said:
It seems like this new Line 3 - Ontario Line indigo colour is a little to similar to the Sheppard Line colour to me. Originally the wayfinding material suggested a more pale blue with black lettering (in contrast with the white lettering on the yellow and green line) which would have been easily distinguishable.
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Agreed. Metrolinx consultants making questionable choices. Is anyone surprised?
 
EnviroTO said:
It seems like this new Line 3 - Ontario Line indigo colour is a little to similar to the Sheppard Line colour to me. Originally the wayfinding material suggested a more pale blue with black lettering (in contrast with the white lettering on the yellow and green line) which would have been easily distinguishable.
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Dan416 said:
Agreed. Metrolinx consultants making questionable choices. Is anyone surprised?
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Yeah, should just leave it as SRT blue, which is easily distinguishable from yellow, and also distinguishable enough from green (and purple, if & when the blue reaches it).
 
EnviroTO said:
It seems like this new Line 3 - Ontario Line indigo colour is a little to similar to the Sheppard Line colour to me. Originally the wayfinding material suggested a more pale blue with black lettering (in contrast with the white lettering on the yellow and green line) which would have been easily distinguishable.
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Maybe it's just me, but even I don't see indigo. The colour they used just looks like a light purple.
 
Just so everyone is aware, renderings at this stage of design are not representative of the final product. There are usually a lot of inconsistencies in them as they try to highlight the bigger picture, so I wouldn't put too much weight on the details of it. There are a lot of placeholders.
 
adys123 said:
Just so everyone is aware, renderings at this stage of design are not representative of the final product. There are usually a lot of inconsistencies in them as they try to highlight the bigger picture, so I wouldn't put too much weight on the details of it. There are a lot of placeholders.
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Maybe using the wrong colour was used intentionally as a distraction from how lame these renders are.
 
EnviroTO said:
It seems like this new Line 3 - Ontario Line indigo colour is a little to similar to the Sheppard Line colour to me. Originally the wayfinding material suggested a more pale blue with black lettering (in contrast with the white lettering on the yellow and green line) which would have been easily distinguishable.
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MX documentation has always clear that the line colour/number for the OL is essentially "to be confirmed" with the TTC, which is why it was close to the existing Line 3 branding, but slightly wrong. The TTC's future network map just has it using the existing Line 3 branding. It will almost certainly just use the former SRT colour and line number. Chances are a lot of the renders/documents we're seeing now were done pre-SRT shutdown so they didn't wanna go all in on replacing the SRT branding with the OL yet to avoid confusion. As we get further away from the SRT shutdown, I expect we'll start to see the reuse of the SRT branding for the OL more and more.
 
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