New Station signage

[tonigau]

The new station platform signs look pretty spiffy,
Too bad under certain light conditions they are unreadable.

I have noticed in early afternoon (14:40) on dipswich line, sun shining on northen side of train, scattered light reflected from train onto new signs, lots of surface glare on the sign = no can read sign.

The new design is printed on the inside with a gloss outer surface with transmissive characters & logo. This is a good design in principal & gives long life & artwork resillience, but compared to the old design is much harder to see in adverse daylight conditions.
(Maybe they only tested them at night)

Its not a problem for me but tourists & some elderly may not know if they are getting off at the right station. -  PA system is not always that good on the old klunkers.
(Klunkers because if sitting under the pantograph on the older EMU's you will know what I mean when the Circuit breaker opens & closes- scares the sheet outa me sometimes)

Also the signs are a bit inconsistent with the font size, Oxley & Central both have nice big letters, but corinda - I have to squint to read some of these signs with my less than perfect vision.

[p858snake]

Also the signs are a bit inconsistent with the font size, Oxley & Central both have nice big letters, but corinda - I have to squint to read these (yes I am vision impared)

That would be a text boxing method where the text is constrained to be within a box, and the size is auto adjusted to suit, I hate when signs, posters or text in general do this since it looks crap.

"White" text on dark backgrounds never looks good unless its full black. These ones to be quite honest look crap, since its a gray and not a solid black so the light bleeds though and doesn't give the text a next crisp lighting at night, the colours are crap (apart from the red and orange, those look quiet nice together along with the bold red on the new trains) and they used a glossy plastic instead of a matte plastic so it has reflection issues. [And people could see this was happening with the translink signage on the ferny line at the groverly station).


Although this has long proven what a though, the name signboxes aren't all the same size, you can tell by how much of the white on the side they show.

[#Metro]

That would be a text boxing method where the text is constrained to be within a box, and the size is auto adjusted to suit, I hate when signs, posters or text in general do this since it looks crap.

"White" text on dark backgrounds newer looks good unless its full black. These ones to be quite honest look crap, since its a gray and not a solid black so the light bleeds though and doesn't give the text a next crisp lighting at night, the colours are crap (apart from the red and orange, those look quiet nice together along with the bold red on the new trains) and they used a glossy plastic instead of a matte plastic so it has reflection issues. [And people could see this was happening with the translink signage on the ferny line at the groverly station).


Although this has long proven what a though, the name signboxes aren't all the same size, you can tell by how much of the white on the side they show.

New signs, new name. 
Some new services would make my day.

[SteelPan]

Couldn't agree more - all Translink really seems to have done for rail since it was established is new signage - frankly, alot of the old stuff was better! More   less pointless changes to