The Applied Research On Color Design In The Metro Signage And Wayfinding System

Color which is used for the important element in the metro signage and wayfinding system has more inimitable advantages than the graphics and the texts. Color is not only a supplementary planar element but also is an efficient method to express the regional characteristics, meanwhile it's a key factor to ensure the passenger take the subway conveniently and satisfy their psychological need. But during the practical survey, the color design doesn't has enough attentions. Though the research to the current situation for the color design at home and abroad in the signage and wayfinding system, it points out the typical problems existing in our metro signage and wayfinding system. To answer these problems there has some individual suggestions to make the color design become the final essential factor in representing the urban metro culture connotation by the scientific method.Through the research for the chromatics, it provides the scientific theoretical basis for the problems of color matching, then to bring this analysis pattern into the color design in metro environment's signage and wayfinding system. From the underground space's characteristics, logo function, cultural connotation and other external factors explore the service center for the color design; then from the materials, crafts, lights and other angles discuss the specific conditions. At the last through the applied research for the color design in Xi'an metro line2, discussing the specific methods and related steps for color design in the underground space's signage and wayfinding system and put forward many basic principles for color design in metro signage and wayfinding system to satisfy the new requirements for metro environment design, in order to supply a worthy reference document literature for color design in metro signage and wayfinding system in the contemporary era.