The ISO 7010 standard specifies rescue, prohibition, mandatory, warning and fire protection signs. The shapes and colors are based on ISO 3864. The standard is intended to ensure greater security internationally through uniform labels.
The European standard is EN ISO 7010 , the current version of which was adopted by the European Committee for Standardization in March 2020. In Austria it replaces the ÖNORM Z1000.
The colors of the characters are specified in the ISO standard 3864-4 in RAL colors .
Meaning / use
RAL name
RAL number
RGB hex
Color sample
warning
Signal yellow
1003
# F9A800
Prohibition / fire protection
Signal red
3001
# 9B2423
bid
Signal blue
5005
# 005387
rescue
Signal green
6032
# 237F52
Border / symbol
Signal white
9003
# ECECE7
symbol
Signal black
9004
# 2B2B2C
Emergency lighting and afterglow
Both the fire protection signs and the escape signs must be photoluminescent according to ASR A1.3 if no electrical emergency lighting is available. This means that the signs, when stimulated by light, shine independently without any energy supply. The colors are lost, but the shapes remain recognizable as outlines.
Classification
The various characters are divided into categories. Within this, the characters are numbered consecutively. The following is a list of the categories:
Further requirements can be found under the DIN 67510 standard. The numbers E005 and E006 are not used because the additional arrows are no longer allowed alone, but only in conjunction with other escape signs.
The colors shown in this article are not binding and may appear different on different display devices.
One possibility to approximately calibrate the display with purely visual means is offered by the adjacent test image (only with native display resolution and when the page is not displayed zoomed):
Set the
display device to sRGB mode, if available. If a letter (“R” for red, “G” for green or “B” for blue) appears strongly on one or more of the three gray areas, the gamma correction of the corresponding color channel should be corrected. sRGB corresponds to a gamma value of 2.2, which is the common value for TVs and computers with Windows or macOS (from version 10.6).