IEC ISo GUIDE 74 Graphical symbols Technical guidelines for the consideration of consumers'needs First edition 2004 @ISO/EC 2004 ISO/IEC GUIDE74:2004(E) PDFdisclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademarkof AdobeSystems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below. ? ISO/IEC2004 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means IsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Casepostale 56:.CH-1211Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ISO/IEC2004-Allrightsreserved ISO/IEC GUIDE74:2004(E) Foreworo Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEc participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees establishedbytherespectiveorganizationtodealwithparticularfieldsoftechnicalactivity.ISOandIEC technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental andnon-governmental,inliaisonwithisOandIEC,alsotakepartinthework. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/lEC Directives, Part 2 Draft Guides adopted by the responsible Committee or Group are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as a Guide requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. ISO/IEC Guide 74 was prepared jointly by the ISO Committee on consumer policy (COPOLCO), and Technical Committee ISO/TC 145, Graphical symbols. @ISO/IEC2004-All rightsreserved ii ISO/IEC GUIDE 74:2004(E) Introduction Poorly designed and researched graphical symbols, and also the proliferation of graphical symbols with the in an age of mass travel, mobility of labour, and global trading unless graphical symbols are designed, Both the International Organization for Standardization (IsO) and the International Electrotechnical producing and standardizing graphical symbols. Without doubt, graphical symbols can have important benefits in the field of communication, for example, they have visual impact, they can provide information in a compact form, they can provide information in a visual form that is independent of language, and they can guide the viewer to a desired outcome or appropriate decision. However, these benefits are not always achieved in practice and the purpose of this Guide is to ensure that same function. This will help create familiarity for the user. In the case of graphical symbols used on products will be instances when optimum results can only be achieved by the provision of supplementary text. Itisimportantforconsumersthatgraphicalsymbolsshouldclearlyandsuccessfullyconveytheintended message. In particular, they should differentiate between information that relates to safety requirements (including those associated with unsafe use or the misuse of products and equipment) and those which relate committee, through undertaking research on consumer usage, or both. iv ISO/IEC 2004 - All rights reserved ISO/IECGUIDE74:2004(E) Graphical symbols Technical guidelines for the consideration of consumers' needs IMPORTANT The colours represented in the electronic file of this Guide can be neither viewed on screen nor printed as true representations. Although the copies of this Guide printed by Iso have been produced to correspond (with an acceptable tolerance as judged by t