Saturday 18 February 2017
Three Varieties of Orange in Manchester
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Site Counter
Subscribe To
Posts
Comments
Popular Posts
-
It looks like my old blog won't function properly any more so thanks for that Blogger. I would like to thank you all for visiting me an... -
I have to say despite the rows of horizontal scratches caused when the film all those years ago was wound through my old Voitlander Camera I... -
Perhaps the best known coach operator in wales was Hills of Tredegar with between fifty and sixty vehicles. As well as mostly Leyland coache... -
When Reading bought some Bristol RELL's in 1968 they wanted the bodywork to bear some resemblance to their earlier Burlingham bodied ... -
Greatrex grew up during the War and was the main Stafford coaching concern till it's demise in the Eighties when it passed to the Austin... -
Not being quite so expensive and especially for those who enjoy a drink Copenhagen was a good choice for a Scandinavian break. For the Br... -
Lausanne is probably the most multi-national city in what was a very conservative Switzerland. But Europe has changed a great deal since ... -
Some might disapprove of my attempt to photograph Warstone's well known Duple Vista bodied Bedford OB through the fence. Originally b... -
It's sad to hear that what I used to call East Lancashire Coachbuilders have called in the receivers for they were one of a number of sm... -
The strike of Summer of1982 wasn't very nice for rail travellers or the residents in London living close to Victoria Coach Station which...
3 comments:
Whoever came up with the name "tomato soup" for that First livery certainly nailed it.
I wonder why FirstGroup always seems to manage to come up with such uninspiring liveries? They even managed to make that bright orangey-red colour feel boring and even slightly depressing.
The manager came down from Glasgow and bought a few cans of that tomato soup colour with him. I agree with you about First though as the new effort isn't really an improvement of 'Barbi' but at least it includes local branding I suppose.
That local branding is another example of First not quite getting it right.
On paper it looks great: local names with silhouettes of the local skyline in the letters - but it doesn't work on the buses themselves.
The blocky typeface is simply wrong in an era where clean, crisp sans-serif text is preferred and then there's no attempt made anywhere to explain the images used, so because people don't know what it's supposed to be it just looks messy.
How can they consistently get things so wrong?
That's not to say I think much of the other big groups, and don't get me started on the "really good bus company" that calls itself trentbarton!
Post a Comment