Re: what colour means 'warning' in Japan?

Subject: Re: what colour means 'warning' in Japan?
From: slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:34:36 -0700


Hi Elizabeth -

> In documentation til now, warnings have been printed in red.
> But it just occurred to me that red may not mean 'warning'
> in Japan. Does anyone know what colour does mean 'warning',
> or does it matter?

Acording to Bill Horton's Illustrating Computer Documentation,
p213, in Japan the colour red can signify danger or anger,
so you should be OK.

(And just so you have the complete set: yellow=grace, nobility,
childhood gaiety; green=future, youth, energy; blue=villainy.)
Good luck with the new contract.

Stuart Burnfield

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