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Quiet signs for loud cities

Good wayfinding is mostly subtraction. Notes from three years of designing for transit.

Words by Julian Reyes

Quiet signs for loud cities, cinematic journal cover, Mordant design studio template

Say less, sooner

Cities are noisy. A sign competes with adverts, traffic, weather and a rider's own worries. The answer is rarely a bigger sign.

We place information where decisions happen and nowhere else. A rider should never meet a sign that asks them to remember something for later.

Testing in the rain

Every typeface and colour pair we specify is tested outdoors, at night and in bad weather. If it fails there, it fails.

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