ISO/IEC TECHNICAL REPORT TR 11581-1 First edition 2011-12-01 Information technology User interface icons - Part 1: Introduction to and overview of icon standards Technologies de I'information - Icones d'interface utilisateur- Partie 1: Normes d'icones, introduction et généralités Reference number ISO/IEC TR 11581-1:2011(E) 'so IEC @ISO/IEC2011 py IHS under ted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC TR 11581-1:2011(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ISO/IEC2011 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either isO at the address below or Iso's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56. CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ ISO/IEC 2011 - All rights reserved vided by IHS under itted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC TR 11581-1:2011(E) Contents Page Foreword .iv Introduction 1 Scope 2 Terms and definitions . 3 Applicability of icons 4 Overview of current icon standards. 4.1 ISO/IEc 11581-2 Object icons .. 4.2 ISO/IEC 11581-3 Pointer icons . 4.3 ISO/IEC11581-5Toolicons....... 4.4 ISO/lEC 11581-6Action icons 4.5 ISO/IEc 18035 Multimedia control icons.. 4.6 ISo/IEc 18036 Web browser icons..... 4.7 ISO/IEC 24738 Multimedia link attribute icons ... 4.8 Iso/lEc 24755Icons for mobile computing... 5 Proposed future structure of Icon standards 5.1 ISO/IEC TR 11581-1 5.2 5.3 Other currently existing icon standards .. 5.4 Iso/lEc 11581-10 - Framework and general guidance on icons.. 5.5 Proposed IsO/IEc 11581-20 - Guidance on families of icons..... 5.6 Proposed ISO/lEc 11581-30 - Developing and evaluating icons . .9 5.7 Iso/IEc11581-40 - Management of icon registration .. 5.8 Proposed ISO/IEC 11581-41-Data structure to be used by the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 Icon Database.... Copyrght International Organizaionfrstandardization Allrights reserved ii IHS unde ed without license from IHS Not for Resale