We go through all the trouble of making signage without language barriers and still can’t communicate, it’s ridiculous. I would 100% misunderstand European signs in a quick moment even knowing what they should mean, because I have to unlearn 40 years of sign instinct.
Yet you can understand a red light, even without a strike through. Europeans just consistently transferred the principle. A crossed out sign means the regulation ends there, which is extremely intuitive.
Everybody from Europe would get the (un?)intended meaning of the sign in the cartoon (biking prohibited) and it’s black and white. It just needs to be taught once.
It does?!
With the wide circle that would normally be red it means no bikes beyond this point in Europe and most of the world
Poor design. If you were colour blind, that sign would be very confusing. It needs a line through it.
For example, these signs all mean not to do something, and anyone should be able to figure that out:
We go through all the trouble of making signage without language barriers and still can’t communicate, it’s ridiculous. I would 100% misunderstand European signs in a quick moment even knowing what they should mean, because I have to unlearn 40 years of sign instinct.
Yet you can understand a red light, even without a strike through. Europeans just consistently transferred the principle. A crossed out sign means the regulation ends there, which is extremely intuitive.
Everybody from Europe would get the (un?)intended meaning of the sign in the cartoon (biking prohibited) and it’s black and white. It just needs to be taught once.