Legible London is a city–wide wayfinding system developed and promoted by Transport for London and now being rolled out across the capital in conjunction with London’s Boroughs, landowners, developers and businesses.
Unlike other wayfinding projects, Legible London leaps over bureaucratic boundaries in order to provide one consistent visual language and wayfinding system across the city. This city–wide approach was implemented to help visitors and local residents to easily gain local geographic knowledge regardless of the area they are in.
There are approximately 900 Legible London signs, known officially as Monoliths, Midiliths, Miniliths and Fingerposts installed across London, and the system is continuing to expand. It is currently believed to be the world’s largest pedestrian wayfinding project.
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Famous quotes containing the words legible and/or london:
“The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You owe me ten shillings,
Say the bells of St. Helen’s.
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey.
When I grow rich,
Say the bells of Shoreditch.
Pray when will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney.
I am sure I don’t know,
Says the great bell of Bow.”
—Unknown. The Bells of London (l. 13–22)