Care Symbols
洗濯表示 / 1958– / Style / Symbol Systems
The symbol system that crosses borders with four figures — tub, triangle, square, circle. Washing, bleaching, drying and ironing compressed onto a tag of a few millimeters: information design at minimum area.
Tub, triangle, square and circle / The prohibition X and temperature dots / Compression into millimeters / International standardization
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- ISO 3758 / Japan's 2016 label changeover / national differences in symbols