I love NYC Subway signage so much I even based part of my architecture thesis project on it. The signage system is not one man’s effort, but a collaboration of designers and workers (and committee members) over time.

I was at the lecture last night, on “Unimark International and the New York Subway System”, which talked about the signage system and how it came along.

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32×32 is slowly becoming the new 16×16.

16×16 was born

First of all, let’s go down the memory lane.

“Icons” were one of the most important part of GUIs (Graphical User Interface), and surely one that sets it apart from CLI (Command Line Interface). In the very beginning, there was only 32×32. The earliest graphical operating systems, e.g. Mac System 1.0, spotted only 32×32 icons.

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