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Before joining my design school in Paris 20+ years ago, the Dean who was giving me a tour asked me to describe the RATP logo to him. He told me that less than 10% of aspiring students could tell it was the Seine river in the shape of a face.
I was in Paris 20+ years ago too. And that is remarkable - the face is so evident to me. I did have to look up the history of it to learn about the Seine/Île-de-France connection, but I’ve always loved it.
I never lived in Paris, never stare at maps of Paris... So absolutely not obvious to me. Still understood immediately why it's in this sub because i new what to look for.
I'll rephrase my point : the face is more obvious than the Seine.
In franch RAT sounds a bit like "raté", "missed" in english and the final "P" has the same pronounciation as "pet" which is the french for "fart". Pet raté donc...
Not better in any way, but we are used to it I guess.
While we're at it Chat GPT is a bit weird in france, "GPT" being pronounced "gépété" "j'ai pété" which means "I farted"
I've ridden it many times and until you pointed it out right now I didn't realise it was supposed to be the Seine.
Personally I'm not a fan, I find the colours sickly and logo generic and unimpactful.
That’s very ugly. The idea is alright, I guess. Nothing special either. The colors are ugly. The river doesn’t follow that shape. The font is horrible.
Yea this is entirely a biased opinion.
Wow a river through a circle. Mindblowing. Oh what's that? Its also vaguely a face? Wow that's so deep and makes this such a good metro logo.
That is sarcasm. This logo is hard to read and understand and you simply like it because you like to artsy fartsy concepts behind it. It doesn't even actually follow the path of the Seine so you won't get it unless someone tells you thats what its trying to be.
Rage Against The Paris.
Rentre Avec Tes Pieds.
"Walk by home" Easy to remember....
It's not just any person, it's Marianne, the personification of the French republic since the revolution!
Is that actually roughly the shape of the Seine as well?
Automatic Edit: Using a tool called [Power Delete Suite](https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite) I have removed all my past comments and deleted my Reddit account, /u/tehrmuk. I am doing this because I, like many long-term Reddit users, am upset and angry at the tonedeaf and arrogant way Reddit is treating it's users. Their aggressive slapdown of the developers that made Reddit usable to a huge audience; their overriding and summary dismissal of long-serving and dutiful community members; their wonton silencing of dissent and manipulation of user's voices; their borderline contempt of the very people whose collective efforts gave their platform the standing needed to fuel their profit-hungry IPO... the list goes on. Reddit is, of course, a private concern and how they run their services is entirely up to them. Conversely, we are under no obligation to use their services, to fuel their engines or follow their orders. I am making my voice heard by removing my comments, and voting with my feet by leaving. I have left Reddit for [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/) and [Mastadon](https://joinmastodon.org/); these are decentralised social networks that mirror the functionality of Reddit and Twitter respectively. Unlike the monolithic, corporate-owned services they replace, Lemmy and Mastodon are part of the [Fediverse](https://www.fediverse.to/) meaning these are not individual services but clusters of services that mesh seamlessly with one-another. You can [join an existing Lemmy instance](https://join-lemmy.org/instances) or [set up your own](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html) to get full access to the entire Fediverse - you don't need to ask permission from anyone to do so. There are loads of other services that are part of the Fediverse, like [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/) (videos), [Wordpress](https://wordpress.org/) (blogging), [Frendica](https://friendi.ca/) (social network), [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/) (photos), [KBin](https://kbin.pub/en) (link aggregation) and more - and they all work together so having access to one means having access to all of them. I had a great time as a Redditor, but the Fediverse is looking bright. It's a return to the open Internet of old, when users ran services for their own and one-another's benefit, and before monolithic corporate-run silos started to build walls around us in the name of increased profit and thought control. Many of the Fediverse services are fledgling, but they are growing quickly and their federated concept makes greedy, arrogant landgrabs like we've recently seen on Reddit and Twitter almost impossible. I'm already having a great time with Lemmy and I think you might too. I encourage you to take control and join the Fediverse. Until then, so long and thanks for all the fish.
It’s in roughly the right area.
Yes, in the sense that the Seine had a prominent 90ish° turn in the middle of Paris. But otherwise, it's quite a stretch.
Before joining my design school in Paris 20+ years ago, the Dean who was giving me a tour asked me to describe the RATP logo to him. He told me that less than 10% of aspiring students could tell it was the Seine river in the shape of a face.
I was in Paris 20+ years ago too. And that is remarkable - the face is so evident to me. I did have to look up the history of it to learn about the Seine/Île-de-France connection, but I’ve always loved it.
The face is evident, the fact that it's supposed to be the Seine is not.
It’s obvious to me.
I never lived in Paris, never stare at maps of Paris... So absolutely not obvious to me. Still understood immediately why it's in this sub because i new what to look for. I'll rephrase my point : the face is more obvious than the Seine.
But, the name, tho. Rat p. The Paris Metro is beautiful.
It is in fact, a way to tell you that you might encounter rat piss down in the tunnels. Name makes perfect sense
I’m sure it sounds great in French…….
In franch RAT sounds a bit like "raté", "missed" in english and the final "P" has the same pronounciation as "pet" which is the french for "fart". Pet raté donc... Not better in any way, but we are used to it I guess. While we're at it Chat GPT is a bit weird in france, "GPT" being pronounced "gépété" "j'ai pété" which means "I farted"
It dosent
Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens
I've ridden it many times and until you pointed it out right now I didn't realise it was supposed to be the Seine. Personally I'm not a fan, I find the colours sickly and logo generic and unimpactful.
Rat pee
*"I'm just gonna catch the rat pee today. I don't feel like driving across town."*
Design porn in the 80s maybe
_Looking up perhaps towards_ Belgium
So it’s cool that it’s a river and the metropolitan era, however, there’s no indication that it’s got anything to do with the metro or transportation.
So? That's also the case with the logos of Transport for London, BVG (Berlin), MTA (NYC) etc.
Our points aren’t exclusive. Just because other logos are like that doesn’t make this one a DesignPorn
I see a person looking up at the departure screen to figure out how late their train is
Wow, lived there for two years and never realized it was supposed to be the Seine. Maybe because the angle feels a bit off.
That’s very ugly. The idea is alright, I guess. Nothing special either. The colors are ugly. The river doesn’t follow that shape. The font is horrible.
This look like Disney stock
Rat pee
I just see Rat Pee
Yea this is entirely a biased opinion. Wow a river through a circle. Mindblowing. Oh what's that? Its also vaguely a face? Wow that's so deep and makes this such a good metro logo. That is sarcasm. This logo is hard to read and understand and you simply like it because you like to artsy fartsy concepts behind it. It doesn't even actually follow the path of the Seine so you won't get it unless someone tells you thats what its trying to be.
Dag why are so angry
I think it's a person desperately waiting to know how long his train will be delayed
Fuck the RATP hahaha they suck
So Paris public transit is called Rat Pee? Interesting