...finally. Click on the image for full resolution.
Some of the thought behind the design:
- I used Transit font, keeping it in line with the new STM standard, although I prefer Univers, the STM's original. Univers matches the brutalist architecture at many of the stations; Transit looks too much like Calibri from any significant distance
- As with the original, hand-drawn copy, all lines and stops are spaced three or six grid spacings apart in a 12-pixel grid. The only exception is Sherbrooke metro, which I allowed to ensure that the interchange with the 24 bus was visually coherent
- Interchange metro stations are slightly larger than regular metro stations, although I'm not convinced the difference is noticeable to the naked eye. I'm hoping it's still enough to allow viewers to 'subconsciously' notice the distinction
- All Orange Line metro station labels are aligned from Côte-Vertu to Place-Saint-Henri and from Sherbrooke to Cartier. This makes for simpler viewing and referencing of the diagram
- The street intersection labelling idiom is unified throughout the map: North-South Road/East-West Road. All bus termini point to neighborhoods or specific locations, rather than street intersections
- All text labels are spaced 2px away from lines. De Castelnau and Guy-Concordia are the unique exceptions due to spatial constraints
- All labels are either centered on metro stops, aligned-left or aligned-right. Once again, this is to ensure cohesiveness in the design of the map
- Further iterations of this map could include other important stops along bus lines, road markers on bus lines, or hash-marks throughout bus and metro lines to delimit 5-minute intervals