Re[2]: Icons

Subject: Re[2]: Icons
From: "Walker, Arlen P" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 08:27:19 -0500

From: Arlen P Walker on 05/02/97 08:27 AM



Regarding icons, like most things, there are good and bad ones. Good
icons are ones where the meaning is almost unmistakeable. I
think the one you described, a trinagle within a triangle, is not a
good icon, because it doesn't mean anything.

It's a cultural thing. US road signs have different shapes depending upon
what they are trying to convey (octagon is "Stop," for example). It used to
be you couldn't get a license to drive here without knowing the shapes.

The triangular signs here mean Caution or Yield.


Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224

Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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