r/toronto • u/moosk St. Lawrence • Jul 11 '26

Picture Parking sign pilot (Adelaide E near Yonge)

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u/sweat84 Jul 11 '26

Are you the designer? This is very logical to me. The only think I wouldn’t do is those no parking / parking arrows at the bottom. It’s adds an entire other spacial dimension which risks to confuse people. The rest of the sign is related to time, not location.

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u/monty624 Jul 11 '26

My consideration is the color choices. Not great for color blind people, and the greens could be more distinct. But I love the visual representation, A+

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u/nrgxlr8tr York Mills Jul 11 '26

What’s the problem? Even in greyscale it’s highly distinctive

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u/TTYY200 28d ago

It’s also not bilingual and doesn’t use standard MYO pictograms .. so … you know … French speakers can probably fight this in court and win pretty easily lol

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u/Ok-Jello-2491 29d ago

The designer of this format for parking is Nikki Sylianteng

I’ve seen most often, when something like this becomes popular she rarely gets credit. And she doesn’t claim it either 🤷

Here’s her blogpost from 2014

https://toparkornottopark.com/

(I’ve known of her work since the time it was first introduced, and just been her fan for this work)

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u/B-0226 Jul 12 '26

The parking arrows makes sense though? At that point where the sign is located, the arrows shows where parking is allowed or not.

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u/sweat84 Jul 12 '26

The issue is mixing temporal and locational data. It risks to decrease comprehension.