Why Not Use the ISO Exit Sign?

[TheCarson116]

@KBM_Fire_andSecurity

They cut through the smoke with the lettering, compared to a white blob in a Smokey room.

You know, I never thought about that actually: good point. Still no reason both couldn’t be used together for the best of both worlds though.

@KBM_Fire_andSecurity

I can see the argument that red means stop or danger, but Americans are accustomed to the traditional.

Yeah. Green does have its advantages though: in addition to being perceived as meaning “safety”, it’s also likely unique in color from all the other lights in a typical building & thus should stand out & be locatable easier, along with being more visible in darkness according to Wikipedia, so maybe green should be the standard color in the US.

@Alex_Wilkinson

The solution is to have a cutout of the running man similar to the arrows on normal exit signs. Will this ever be implemented? Probably not, it’s likely too expensive. That’s an interesting weakness that I wouldn’t have thought about. There should be a better way to make exit signs understandable for all than the existing iso sign.

More like arrows alongside both the ISO exit symbol & the word “EXIT” for the best chances of both visibility & understanding (& to just have the best of both worlds together as I said).