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Is there a reason why they used those specific colors? I don't understand why a hospital would be yellow or a police station would be black by default. My guess
by looping8 3y ago
Is there a reason why they used those specific colors? I don't understand why a hospital would be yellow or a police station would be black by default. My guess would be white and blue, respectively.
- _xivi 3y ago> I don't understand why a hospital would be yellow or a police station would be black by default. My guess would be white and blue, respectively. Snow. At least that'd be my first guess for not going with white. In general, you want to use distinctive characteristics that aren't common in that environment.
- Jensson 3y agoSnow in the air is probably a bigger problem than snow on the ground, blizzards with 20m or less visibility aren't that uncommon far north, really easy to get lost and die during those since the snow also blots out the terrain unlike fog. Imagine trying to find a hospital under these conditions, vibrant color coding helps save lives then: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sSjqaDJiG0c/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sSjqaDJiG0c/maxresdefault.jpg
- danpalmer 3y agoDespite it's name I suspect there was in fact a lot of snow that would make a white building too inconspicuous.
- buster3000 3y agoEasier for a heli-pilot to find when transporting a patient?
- siftrics 3y agoIt's presumptuous to assume your cultural norms apply to everyone across the entire world. I think it's completely reasonable to assume Greenland has relatively separate history from wherever you got the "white and blue" intuition from.