부산대학교 도서관

In this article, a proposal for coloration of textile care symbols is presented for rising the intelligibility of the meaning of symbols and rousing consumers’ interest in the care symbols and care labels. First, the questionnaire survey of the image of JIS safety colors (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, White, and Black) was performed by using the ten adjective pairs, necessary to express the meaning of the symbols such as warm - cool, strong (action) - mild (action), with five-point scale. With reference to the results, the various colored symbols were designed by colorization of the additional or number parts of symbols, indicating temperature (numbers in washing symbols), mechanical action (under bar with washing symbols) and so on. Additionally, the symbols were indicated on the computer display as stimulus and evaluated by the method of ranking test. It was confirmed that there are meaning of the symbols easily expressed by color such as temperature, but difficultly expressed such as mildness of mechanical or chemical action.