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National Boards => General Highway Talk => Traffic Control => Topic started by: Chrispi on September 02, 2019, 05:17:37 AM

Title: Semiotics of Road Signs
Post by: Chrispi on September 02, 2019, 05:17:37 AM
I'm going to dedicate this topic to the unwritten means of altering the meaning of road signs.  One way for example is the addition of pointed corners on signs; in particular:
 
<Salem| is different from |Salem>

Indeed, there could be a paradigm where

         There
           ^
Left <–+–> Right
            v
          Here

could be applied to any simple sign to alter its meaning. For instance

  ^
|40| could mean "highway 40 is ahead" , while
___
|40| could mean "this is highway 40" , effectively making a highway shield.
  V

I apologize for resorting to ASCII characters; hopefully I can use Photoshop or a sign-making program to create better signs in new posts.  Thanks for your patience!




Title: Re: Semiotics of Road Signs
Post by: CtrlAltDel on September 02, 2019, 03:15:39 PM
Did you mean something like this:

(https://i.imgur.com/kKJ1TFy.png)
Title: Re: Semiotics of Road Signs
Post by: Chrispi on September 02, 2019, 03:33:09 PM
Quote from: CtrlAltDel on September 02, 2019, 03:15:39 PM
Did you mean something like this:

(https://i.imgur.com/kKJ1TFy.png)

Yes!  You beat me to it (I had to use Open Office drawings to make this sign, but couldn't upload it in time (I had to make an imgur membership)

(https://imgur.com/WhR88hy.gif)

Now to create yield and stop signs and the like...