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Redesigning the hotel icon

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Re: Redesigning the hotel icon

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Anyone else think the stairs down and escalator down icons need to flipped horizontally (direction of travel left-to-right?). As it stand's there's little to distinguish up and down, and it doesn't "read" naturally.

Yes, I had exactly the same thought.

The corollary is that these icons are as bad as text; sure, they work great for left-to-right reading Americans that designed them, but what about everyone else? (My favorite is the "parking" icon. How does a big P help someone who calls a parking lot a "駐車場"? The P icon looks like, "welp, nobody that came to the meeting came up with a good idea, so let's just implement a shitty idea instead." "Sounds good, Bob! Man we're dumb!")

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