[LINK] UN Pictograms for Humanitarian Software

Andy Farkas andyf at andyit.com.au
Mon Aug 27 10:45:10 AEST 2012


On 08/27/12 09:03, Tom Worthington wrote:
> The OCHA Humanitarian Icons are a set of 500 pictograms for humanitarian
> relief operations from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of
> Humanitarian affairs (OCHA).
>
> These can be used as computer icons for communicating information about
> relief operations where language may otherwise be a barrier:
> http://www.unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/ocha-launches-500-free-humanitarian-symbols
>
>

That web page only shows 165 icons.

If you download the icons (available at non-unocha websites) and count them,
there are only 243 unique icons. Each icon is represented twice, one 
being the
inverse colour of the other. That only gives 486 icons.

Clearly I have too much time on my hands. It was also fun putting 
meanings to
some of the icons before reading what they were actually meant to 
represent :)

-andyf





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