Visual Grammar
The department of marks that must act. A symbol in the Atlas carries meaning; a mark here has a job to do — stop a driver, warn a chemist, confirm a choice — and is shaped by the job, by a standards body, or by both.
How to read a source: documented a dated record, a named author, a standards texttraditional long held within a tradition; no primary recordfolk widely repeated, unsupported — printed here to be corrected
Check & Cross VG·0001 yes / no, and not everywhere The arrow VG·0002 the most trusted mark, and a late arrival The warning grammar VG·0003 shape is syntax, pictogram is content The 10,000-year problem VG·0004 the hardest brief ever written The transport set VG·0005 instructions to a tape The graveyard VG·0006 when does the corpse stop working? The hamburger VG·0007 a trigram doing menu duty Thumbs up VG·0011 a gesture with a counter attached Traffic colour VG·0008 the word that changed the lamp Hazard diamonds VG·0012 nine pictures, one frame The symbol that recruited VG·0009 measured, failed, replaced The protected emblems VG·0010 misuse is a war crime