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Oddly, I was reading about this sign design just last week. It's not commonly known here in the UK and from our perspective looks remarkably and worryingly simi
by dingaling 9y ago
Oddly, I was reading about this sign design just last week. It's not commonly known here in the UK and from our perspective looks remarkably and worryingly similar to the ionising-radiation warning sign, down to the same colours and proportions; more than enough to cause a double-take in a crisis.
This led me to discover that the black-yellow radiation warning sign common in Europe is usually magenta-yellow in North America, so I now understand why the black-yellow fallout sign might not be as immediately confusing to an American.
Radiation warning sign history:
https://pubarchive.lbl.gov/islandora/object/ir%3A106177 https://pubarchive.lbl.gov/islandora/object/ir%3A106177
- jsolson 9y agoI had to search to see what you meant by "magenta yellow". My immediate assocation was with the two of them having identical color schemes (although also both being immediately recognizable). I haven't seen the actual radiation symbol often in practice other than in medical facilities or on trucks/trains. Faded fallout shelter signs were ubiquitous on buildings in my childhood (the 80s), so in that regard there's little room for confusion.