The Color of Safety
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com27 points by laurex 4 days ago
27 points by laurex 4 days ago
Related to "Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green" - Soviet designers apparently reached the same conclusion, but they applied it to aircraft cockpits instead of control rooms and used a slightly more blueish color: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16434/why-are-r...
Interestingly enough, Soviet control rooms (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Co...) were the color of Western aircraft cockpits, and vice versa...
The observation that the colors were meant to be absorbed over time rather than explicitly set out reminds me of the old NYC Metro mosaics. https://www.untappedcities.com/secret-meaning-behind-colors-...
While no one would ever navigate by learning what the mosaics mean, it's a fantastic setup for the expected audience of commuters. Give it a month and your brain would associate a given color with your stop coming up soon, and make navigation easier.
I remember having read a story about some wild dogs in Moscow apparently having learned to use the subway and establishing their own "commute schedule".
I always wondered how the dogs would identify the station to leave the train - counting stations or understanding how the announcements worked felt too "smart". But I imagine the simplest way for them would be to just learn the design of different stations over time and jump off once they see a familiar design through the windows.
If I had to make I guess, I'd go with the dogs recognizing the smell. Dogs apparently don't have terribly good vision, but as I'm sure we all know, a very good sense of smell.
