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Regulation

The colour of safety

Spall 006: Form, function, and #f5a500

A fleet of standardized North American school buses, each coated in the federally designated National School Bus Glossy Yellow.

October 3, 1927. In the soft light of early dawn, a boy stands at the edge of a dirt road somewhere outside Des Moines, Iowa. He wears wool knickers and a jacket two sizes too large, the kind that's passed down until it disintegrates. Surrounded by yellowing fields, he waits for a vehicle to emerge from the corridors of drying corn.

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