alternatively just have up bigass signs saying “Swim between flags when on display”. They used to be pretty ubiquitous
Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week agoThere’s a good argument to be made for intuitive design. Red means danger, green means safe. That’s a pretty worldwide understanding. Yellow means caution; that’s a little less universal, but still pretty common.
There are, in my opinion, good reasons to not say “safe” at the beach under any circumstances, so I don’t think using green flags is a great idea, but that doesn’t mean some other form of tweaking is inappropriate.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
That runs into the problem mentioned in the article that I was just discussing with @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world, where people apparently interpret “swim between flags” differently.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Not really hard - just have an iconography of the flags with red X marks left and right, and a green tick and swimmer in the middle of the two flags
eureka@aussie.zone 1 week ago
What about green and yellow?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Too close to green and gold, the indication “only Australians can swim here”.
Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 1 week ago
caution-danger sounds like a good colour combo for the beach eh, especially if we’re looking out for clueless tourists who think the ocean is a big bathtub.
eureka@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Sure, but without a danger-danger elsewhere, a caution-danger might reasonably be interpreted as “don’t swim here”