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Description
In the regular meteorological forecasts, it is important to provide the public with reliable data and information on the physical phenomena expected, on the technological systems exposed and also to indicate the actions available to the public: go and look at the phenomena or act preventively to face the expected impacts. Complex information needs to be presented in a way that can be understood by as many people as possible.
Symbols are one of the best ways of communicating to the public, not least because they transcend cultural, linguistic and literacy barriers. That is why classic meteorology uses simple, easy-to-read icons.
Following a similar approach, we propose the world's first set of free space weather icons, to inform the general public simply and quickly.
This iconography has been designed under the aegis of the Alpine Space Weather Operational Center (COMEA) in coordination with E-SWAN EOCOM. It is aimed at the largest public, with no scientific background. It has also been designed for people with visual impairments: one set is aimed at blind people, in a single full color with 2D shapes simple enough to be extruded into relief supports, and another set, monochrome, more design-oriented, but suitable is dedicated to color-blind and other visually impaired people.
This set of SW icons, version 01, can be used in the full range of space weather communication media: from information leaflets to websites, reports, graphics, bulletins, models and cartographies. To enable each organization to adapt these icons to its own graphic charter, the CC-by-sa license for this icon set is free to use, and the content can be modified using the SVG file format, a universal standard for vector graphics. The only restriction of this license is that the graphics must be credited to COMEA, E-SWAN and the authors concerned.
We invite the public to share their suggestions and impressions of this icon set using the survey at the end of this presentation.
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