About this site

Plain-language meanings for laundry, dashboard, welding, electrical and device symbols. Snap a photo or look it up.

It is an independent site. Its companion, oldsymbols.com, covers where cultural, religious and ancient symbols came from. Where a symbol belongs to both, each site links to the other.

Who reviews the pages

Every page names the person who reviewed it, beside the date of the review. Of the 64 pages live on this site now:

• Rory Hansen reviewed 57 pages

Research and first drafts are AI-assisted; a person reviews every page against its sources before it is published. How we research explains the whole process.

Corrections

If something on a page is wrong, use “Report a problem” at the foot of that page. Reports go straight to the editor.