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Related to "Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green" - Soviet designers apparently reached the same conclusion, but they applied it to aircraft cockpits instead of control rooms and used a slightly more blueish color: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16434/why-are-r...

Interestingly enough, Soviet control rooms (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Co...) were the color of Western aircraft cockpits, and vice versa...

The observation that the colors were meant to be absorbed over time rather than explicitly set out reminds me of the old NYC Metro mosaics. https://www.untappedcities.com/secret-meaning-behind-colors-...

While no one would ever navigate by learning what the mosaics mean, it's a fantastic setup for the expected audience of commuters. Give it a month and your brain would associate a given color with your stop coming up soon, and make navigation easier.

I expected more than one photo given the subject.