[JoeAltmaier]

It's a lost cause, looking for 'intuitive' symbols. It depends on your culture, your experiences, heck your generation. Just look at the symbols for 'save' (a floppy disk) or 'make a call' (an old phone handset). Kids just have to memorize them, they mean nothing 'intuitively'.

I liken these attempts at symbol sets, to ancient hieroglyphics - a different picture-writing for everything. Even the Egyptians gave up and turned to phonetic spelling.

Just write the instructions on the tag. Or heck, put a 2D scan code there and my phone will tell me what to do.

[roelschroeven]

> Just write the instructions on the tag.

But then you need different labels for different markets, and even then often lots of different languages on the same label. That's the whole point of using symbols instead: they are universal.

At least in theory. In the real world labels do contain instructions in multiple languages, and I do read those instead of trying to decipher the symbols.