T TRUNKInformation Design Atlas
Vol. 07 / Issue 12
Vol. 07 — Wayfinding Systems

The city,
routed as a
diagram.

Flat trunk-line color on a solid black grid. Every angle locked to forty-five or ninety degrees. Every station a dot. Geography surrenders to clarity.

Lineage
Swiss / International
Issued
1972 · Reissued 2012
Typeface
Helvetica Neue
Angles
0° · 45° · 90°
A1 L1 A9 L9 1 A N 6 B PARK · WALKER CENTRAL CROSS HARBOR JCT EAST TERMINUS
This is the NYC Subway Vignelli (1972) design system, applied by Curio Design — a design-style library for AI agents. Full NYC Subway Vignelli (1972) guide → designbycurio.com/learn/nyc-subway-vignelli-1972