Re: Directional arrows

I've seen many different solutions to this... from signs painted onto  
on the floor or ceiling, to attempts to make a pseudo-3D arrow that  
points through the sign, with the bottom of the arrow expanded and the  
top compressed. It can be hard to recognise these quickly in poor  
conditions though. (bad weather, low light, stress, etc.).  
Construction of actual physical 3 dimensional arrows might be  
possible, if potentially expensive. But for a small number, it might  
be easy enough to hand-make them. (crazy talk, I know...)

Will.


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Will Stahl-Timmins B.A., M.A.
PhD Researcher: Information Graphics in Health Technology Assessment.

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On 6 Mar 2009, at 14:16, Frank Wales wrote:

> Andrew Barker wrote:
>> Which way should an arrow meaning 'ahead' point?
>> The intuitive answer seems to be that an 'ahead' arrow should point
>> upwards, but what about a suspended sign that one passes beneath - an
>> upwards pointing arrow seems wrong unless people are being  
>> instructed to
>> vault over the sign (unlikely and probably inadvisable).
>
> Such signs are commonplace in the UK, and I don't see dents on the  
> ceiling.
>
> Ultimately, it's whatever is conventional where the signs will be  
> used;
> I'm confident you won't find one universally-applicable answer,  
> because
> I've seen contradictory conventions in different places.
>
> For example, UK overhead road signs have upward-pointing arrows for
> direction, but downward-pointing ones for lane designations.  In
> France, I've seen arrows on either side of the road, one pointing
> left, and one right, and you're meant to realize that they're to
> be taken together as pointing to the horizonal (sic) dot between them.
> -- 
> Frank Wales [[email protected]]
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