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A picture for every station.
Also known as: Lance Wyman metro icons, Mexico metro station symbols
The Mexico City Metro's wayfinding system giving each station a unique pictogram alongside its name.
Identifies each station of the Mexico City Metro by a unique pictogram.
Contexts: Public information, Maps
Designed so that a passenger who could not read could navigate the system, at a time when literacy in the city was far from universal — one of very few large wayfinding systems built for a stated literacy condition rather than for visitors.
Contexts: Public information, Maps
Each pictogram refers to something local — a monument, an event, a trade once carried on there — so the system doubles as a map of the city's own memory rather than an arbitrary code.
Contexts: Public information, Maps
A single bold pictogram in white on the line's colour for each station, drawn in flat silhouette with no text inside it, repeated on platform signs, maps and tickets.