Reference? Label? Image cutoff? I dont know...

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February 10, 2023
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I am using FM for the first time to modify the file from my customer.
Do you know how to resolve the Caution label (image) as shown in the image?

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matsb99251617

Inspiring

As a sidenote to Bob Niland's post, the "standard standard" on danger/warning/caution/notice is ANSI Z535.6. Most often regarded as the state-of-the-art benchmark.

The PMS colors are stated here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_Z535#/media/File:ANSI-Z535.1-2017-Safety-Colors.svg

and here are some graphics how the signs should look like:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Update-on-ANSI-Z535.6%3A-A-New-Standard-for-Safety-in-Hall/17f29f45fc2611d70420fff5ba17bd1863154fc9

Being a standard, ANSI Z535.6 costs money but is probably one of the best investments you can do when it comes to tech doc standards (a few of the other one's being IEC/IEEE 83079-1:2019 and ISO 20607:2019).

Regarding how to write danger/warning/caution/notice, the freely available standard on Simplified Technical English (ASD STE-100) has a great section on that (usable regardless of whether or not you use STE).

Mats

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

ANSI Z535.1-2022 appears to be the current ANSI for just the colors. It was supposed to be harmonized with ISO 3864-4:2011, but I don't know that this ever happened.
Note that the #RRggBB values on the Wiki pages don't match for ANSI vs. ISO, and are in any case uncalibrated, so are going to appear unpredictably.
What's really needed for FM work might be sRGB primaries that fall into tolerance for both specs (assuming the specs now overlap). The SVG imports would be tagged for IEC 61966-2-1:1999. It looks like SVG 1.1 and later (except SVG Tiny 1.2) support color profiles.

I last needed to deal with all this a decade ago.