About Cairo Metro Wayfinding
Cairo Metro Line 1, opened in 1987 between Helwan and Ramses, was the first full metro in Africa and the Arab world. Built with French RATP expertise, its identity is a bold red roundel, vitreous-enamel sign panels, and bilingual station tiling that sets Helvetica beside Arabic naskh as co-equals.
This design system distills that platform-wall language into digital form: a deep enamel signage-red field — never white — keyed to Line 1, with bright roundel red, directional arrows, line-colour bands, and a strict international-style grid.
- Origin
- Cairo, Egypt — Middle East
- Era
- 1987 (Line 1 opening) onward; identity ~late 1980s international-style transit signage
- Key figures
- RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) · Cairo Metro / NAT engineering
- Movements
- international-style transit wayfinding · enamel signage systems · Swiss/Helvetica signage tradition
Cairo Metro Wayfinding design spec
Colors
Typography
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