[Sigia-l] is there a word

[anne at mindstorm.com]

How about:

Ideographic family

As in:

"Here's an ideographic family. They all have the same visual style."

Something like that...

-Anne
>
> id.e.o.gram    n.
> A character or symbol representing an idea or a thing without expressing
> the
> pronunciation of a particular word or words for it, as in the traffic sign
> commonly used for "no parking" or "parking prohibited." Also called
> ideograph.
> See logogram.
> A graphic symbol, such as &, $, or @.
>
>>From Dictionary.com
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> "What's wrong with "iconography"?"
>
> I'm looking for a narrower term (NT). It's for the vocabulary on
> widgetopia.net
>
> "These are symbols rather than icons, "
>
> Actually in my mental model, symbols are visual representations of an
> idea,
> and not clickable. Icons are clickable representations and launch
> application, navigate, etc.
>
> I can't believe there is not a pre-existing name from print design,
> although
> the effort to name them is pretty entertaining. Facbyls!
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