20 Jan 2021, 10:55 pm
#704
(20 Jan 2021, 10:07 pm)mb134 Yet on some liveries, it's done brilliantly: https://flic.kr/p/2ke1jvA. Everything on that is visible easily (bar the "bring your bike" at the rear), there's a good contrast between the colour of the text and the base it's on top of. Look at that X-Lines, or any of them really, then at the CityRider and the ease of reading the text is night and day.
I think it's been said before, but I think bus companies are becoming overreliant on Best Impressions. Some of their stuff is very good but some design elements are getting a bit stale and, with the amount they churn out, some designs will inevitably be poor.
It's really hit and miss.
The cove vinyls on the VOLTRA buses are particularly horrendous. Some idiot decided that having a dark grey background with a slightly lighter dark grey writing was a good idea. It's not. I physically could not read some of the writing
