Vintage Colour Palette for Maps

When I first came upon this colour palette, I knew I had to keep it somewhere where I could easily find it again. Often when I make maps, I use standard colours, or highly contrasting colours for more detail, and then decide on proper colours for the final product. These two palattes provide a great start for giving your maps a vintage, old-time feel.

Proposed New Subway Design - NYC

Although Matthew Blackett's post, from Spacing Toronto, proposes new ideas for the Toronto subway maps (which I will cover in another post), I was fascinated by links in his article exploring how the NYC transit map, or MTA, is possibly one of the most difficult system to map out.

"The world's most famous subway map, designed by Harry Beck, is found in London, England and is considered the world standard-bearer of transit maps. It compresses the sprawling Underground (12 lines, 270 stations) network into a digestible size that is rather easy to understand...A quick look at a New York subway map reveals that the city has yet to find a comfortable way to display their system with the same ease as London."

--Matthew Blackett

Designed by Eddie Jabbour, found in Julie Steel's article, "Redesigning the New York City Subway Map"