Example 65

Colour combinations

On busses in Groningen that run a service within the city boundaries the number of the line is displayed in colour. This has as advantage that you can recognise the bus from a large distance, i.e., provided you know what colour to look for! If you don’t know, you’ll have a hard time trying to read the number, as the colour combinations are quite strange, see the pictures below

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Pink background, number in black…

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Left-hand: White on blue, any idea which number?

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Complemantary colours: pink-green, one of the worst combinations possible

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This one is actually not so bad, but still, best legible is:

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Just the number.

Not just in the Netherlands, spotted in Bologna (Italy):

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submitted by Dick de Waard

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