U.S. Web Design Standards 1.0

Re:U.S. Web Design Standards 1.0 by jcranmer on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:14PM (#13904004)

The advantage of iconography is that it doesn't require to you use a single language. Many signs in the US, which is largely monolingual, tend to be very wordy. In places like Canada, where bilingualism is mandatory, it's easier to do a cigarette with the red slash through it rather than have two signs, one that says "NO SMOKING" and the other "PAS DE FUMER" (that said, they sometimes do have the latter situation).

It's fairly well known that a lot of iconography is actually poorly understood without prior specific instruction. Do you know what this road sign means: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Zeichen_... ? How about this one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Chile_ro... ?

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Re:U.S. Web Design Standards 1.0 by Arizhel on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:20PM (#13933874)

For your first icon, it means to be cautious and watch out for tanker trunks that are able to drive over bodies of water, as one of them might take an odd route to transition from driving over the river onto your road.

For your second icon, it means to watch out for windsocks that have been blown off their poles.

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Re:U.S. Web Design Standards 1.0 by graycat on Thursday March 30, 2017 @03:10PM (#13998031)

I never would have guessed either of those two! Ah, I love the Roman alphabet!

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Re:U.S. Web Design Standards 1.0 by graycat on Sunday March 19, 2017 @01:30AM (#13905420)

Your first icon looks like truck with a tank carrying some liquid, maybe water. The second one looks like a net for catching butterflies.

For both, I wouldn't know the context.

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