Colour for a new tube line?

A new tube line.............err, light green, or turquoise

i was thinking beige or khaki green

First post, but i've lurked here for a while...

If the Chelsea-Hackney line were to be built, it should be a light purple/lilac colour, as it will "match" with the rest of the lines better, a lime green would stick out like a sore thumb on the map in central London...

I've heard that lilac can't actually be used as it can't be put onto the enamal signs. How true that is I don't know!?? Doesn't quite make sense to me!

a nice gamboge would be suitable!

I've checked "Mr Beck's Underground Map" by Ken Garland and in fact violet was the original colour for the Victoria Line (a 1962 paper map with it in this colour is shown in the book) - Harry Beck suggested lilac.

According to this book, violet was "replaced by light blue at an early stage owing to difficulties in reproducing it on vitreous enamel signage".

Personally I love lime green to get on the map.

What about Gold? (an browny kinda gold)

Paris seems to cope with using a few more colours than London:

www.urbanrail.net/eu/par/paris.htm
(this isn't the official site)

Different shades of purple and green are used effectively, all on enamelled signs too !

The Paris map is interesting. 14 different colours - and they don't even use black!

I think lines 3 and 9 are uncomfortably similar in colour, which is unfortunate as they cross twice and also run close together for quite a way.

I had the feeling that some sort of shade of purple/violent (which would probably be the best colour for a new line since it stands out and wouldn't clash too much) has been reserved for Crossrail. As for the one after that, I think some sort of beige/khaki (like a darker version of this forum's background) would be best.

The Northern line's Charing Cross branch should remain black, as someone said, it is the main 'axis' of the tube map, along with the Central. The City branch should be purple, but then so should Chelney! as purple goes better with the Victoria, Piccadilly, Northern and Central lines which are all around the same area... Perhaps the City branch in green?

That map should show Barbican and Farringdon as a single complex, the same for Moorgate and Liverpool Street...

That map was a complete verison of all the proposed plans on a map. This includes Crossrail, Hackney-Chelsea and the Northern line split.

Hackney-Chelsea has always planned to be green (tho I couldn't get the right one so I settled for that colour). The reason why the City branch retains it black colour is the fact that its part of the original Tube line so I thought it deserved to keep its colour. Later maps Ive done have the Crossrail as a line with white middle just like the Overground and DLR.

Just to note there has been more than one orange on the map at once. The Overground and ELL have two seperate oranges with the Overground's being slightly darker.

As for the Barbican/Farringdon complex, the above map is an early draft I did. Theres alot more issues with that map, no least that the T-Cup won't replace the Hammersmith & City or the Circle. If anyone else wants to see the London Connections map as it should look come 2020 just message me as Ive recently finished one. Although the soon to be happening zonal changes wreck that! Grrrr.

I agree Lilac/mauve colour in contrast to the dark magenta of the met.

Gold is another rather naf posibility.

I remember Nicholas Crane on map man using a "bottle green" for his fantasy line...Personally another shade of green isn't a good idea as the District lines uses a very moderate shade which is not too dark, not too light; unlike a good contrast in the vic and picc.

The great thing about the districts current green is precisely that its not too dark or light; a dark green and a light green can thus both be added.