Re: Preconditions for changing a representative glyph?

2013-05-30 Thread Christopher Fynn
On 29/05/2013 21:39, Leo Broukhis wrote: In light of recent news about New York adopting a redesigned "handicapped" symbol http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2013/05/28/handicapped-symbol-facelift/18034/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/05/revamped-handicapped-icons-coming-to-new-york-city

Re: Suggestion for new dingbats/symbols

2013-05-30 Thread Stephan Stiller
Excellent question and points from Albrecht Dreiheller. [AD:] So the _receptive vocabulary_ might be pretty big for many people. [...] So the _productive vocabulary_ of symbols will always be very, very small. I was thinking a similar thing, and I'm inclined to agree. But I know of paralle

RE: Suggestion for new dingbats/symbols

2013-05-30 Thread Whistler, Ken
> How to write a mail like this: > "When you arrive at Madrid airport, follow the sign that looks like this: [?]" > Even if the font library supports all needed symbols, it will be easier to > send a photo than to choose the sign from a huge Unicode symbols list. Yep. This discussion about signs

RE: Suggestion for new dingbats/symbols

2013-05-30 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
Watching the discussion on symbols, icons, signs, emoticons of the last days, I'm thinking a little bit philosophically about the question: Where will we end up? Is communicating with symbols like a new easy-to-learn universal language? Is this our new Lingua Franca? Even if there will be more dif