Legible Prague
What is Legible Prague
Prague’s new wayfinding system Legible Prague is a comprehensive unified urban navigation system for all types of mobility with a priority focus on promoting sustainable movement around the city, on foot, by public transport or by bike. The range of outdoor carriers, designed primarily with pedestrians in mind, is easily recognisable with its distinctive orange colour scheme and the Prague Pedestrian pictogram at the head of each element. The aim is to create an inclusive solution for all users, to provide them with extra information and thus enable more egalitarian movement in the public space.
The idea of developing a project to unify and improve the information and navigation system in Prague stemmed from the fact that the city has long been unsatisfactory in this area, with Prague having several separate systems that are inconsistent both aesthetically and in terms of content. Also, the information system often disappears in the visual smog of advertising and other commercial messages.
The new Prague wayfinding system is being developed as a gradual iteration. It is based on a design prepared by the graphic studio Side2, the A69 architekti studio and the Superior Type typographic studio for an international competition, which they won in 2022. The authors are finalising the competition design in close cooperation with a number of Prague organisations (the Prague Public Transit Company (DPP), the Prague Institute of Planning and Development, Operátor ICT, Prague City Tourism, the City of Prague Technical Road Administration, Prague City Communications, Prague City Technology, Prague City Hall, and also the individual departments of City Hall, the Central Bohemian Region – Integrated Transport of the Central Bohemia Region and also the national Railways Administration) and on the basis of the results of a public survey conducted in the pilot locations. The project as a whole is managed by ROPID. You can also follow our journey together towards a Legible Prague on Instagram.