About Emergency Triage Board
A design system lifted from the walls of a British A&E department: the Manchester Triage System's laminated flowcharts, its five-square mark, and the white patient-tracking board where the priority column is the only colour in the room.
Black signage sans on white, 1px rules, fixed-width tables and five flat colours — red, orange, yellow, green, blue — always paired with a category name and a target time. Nothing decorates. Everything is there to be read correctly across a corridor by someone who hasn't slept.
- Origin
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Era
- 1994–1996 developed; Emergency Triage first published 1997; board practice 1997–present
- Key figures
- Kevin Mackway-Jones · Janet Marsden · Jill Windle
- Movements
- Clinical decision-support protocol design · NHS wayfinding and signage typography · Hospital tracking-board practice
Emergency Triage Board design spec
Colors
Typography
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