Editing Pictogram (section)

==Standardization==
Pictograms can often transcend languages in that they can communicate to speakers of a number of tongues and language families equally effectively, even if the languages and cultures are completely different. This is why [[Road signs in the United States|road signs]] and similar pictographic material are often applied as global standards expected to be understood by nearly all.

A standard set of pictograms was defined in the [[international standard]] ''[[ISO 7001]]: Public Information Symbols''. Other common sets of pictographs are the [[laundry symbols]] used on clothing tags and the [[GHS hazard pictograms|chemical hazard symbols]] as standardized by the [[Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals|GHS system]].

Pictograms have been popularized in use on the Internet and in [[software]], better known as "[[Computer icon|icon]]s" displayed on a computer screen in order to help user navigate a computer system or mobile device.

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 road-sign-horse.jpg|A pictographic traffic sign (top) warning motorists of horses and riders
 Railway pictograms.jpg|[[British Rail]] passenger safety pictograms at the end of the platform at [[Meols railway station]]
 Piktogramm Schwimmer an der Muenchner Olympia Schwimmhalle.JPG|This highly influential pictogram design was introduced at the [[1972 Munich Olympics]], although pictograms first began to appear in the games at Tokyo in 1964.
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