Recognizable Symbols

Symbols are key tools for communicating information quickly and universally. Using familiar and recognizable pictograms helps people from different backgrounds and abilities to understand them without difficulty.

Icons for places, actions, and objects.
  • Familiar symbols: Use symbols that are easy for everyone to understand.
  • Pictography: use recognizable symbols and avoid new ones or those that are difficult to understand.
  • Adjust the readability of symbols with parameters similar to typographic ones.
  • Symbols must inform about places, objects or actions.
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