MapBox/MBTA Color Schema

[Jenny Fromen]

NON DEVELOPER ALERT! 

This is a shot in the dark but I'm trying to display the T routes using the correct MBTA color schema in Mapbox... it doesn't have to do anything fancy. Just display the routes with the correct colors, and stop names. 

This feels like I should be able to do this using data provided by MBTA?

Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

[Developer at MBTA]

Hi Jennifer, thanks for getting in touch!

We have route_color and route_text_color information available in our GTFS feed, which you could more easily access through the /routes endpoint in our V3 API. This would give you a list of all our routes, with hex color information listed for each. These colors vary by mode, and these are the colors you'll see reflected on Google Maps, Transit App, our website, and other third-party apps. You can also view our brand colors (with hex codes) in our brand guidelines, here. 

However, if you're talking about our full system map, which assigns different colors to different bus routes for readability, unfortunately we don't publish data about those colors. 

Is this info helpful for your needs? Let me know if there's anything else we can do to help. 

All the best,

Developer@MBTA