The CCL Signage Didn't Need to be Completely Redesigned
hi hi !!!
This is probably the millionth redesign you've seen in this subreddit, but I'm not here to propose something radical. It's clear that the common concensus among us is that the CCL signage had room for improvement, and I largely agree with this too. In my opinion, the original signage that was rolled out just needed some work to make it a decent design.
If you consider the strenghts of the first design, it had ✅️ clear indication of direction (clockwise and anticlockwise), ✅️ a nice visual flair to affirm the direction (though some might say it adds clutter). However, the main drawback was that it had ❎️ unclear indication of terminating or looping status. The "improved" design has pretty much the opposite characteristics of the old ones.
I figured that the natural step up was to combine the strengths of both designs. Ie: ✅️ clear indication of direction, and ✅️ clear indication of terminating or looping status. So I put together a quick mock-up of this in Powerpoint. Can this design be improved? Of course! As you can probably tell, its a really rough mock-up. I didn't want to spend too much time on something that realistically isn't going to be adopted. Nonetheless, I hope it gets my point across that there wasn't a need to radically redesign signage for the CCL.