The classic American emergency exit sign—the bold red letters spelling out E-X-I-T—seems at first glance like an unimpeachable bit of sign design. The contrast between the letters and the ...

The emergency exit pictogram was created after the Sennichi Department Store Fire, which killed 118 people in Osaka, Japan, in 1972. Pictograms transcend language. Foreigners who don’t understand ...

They also gesture toward the emergency exits—typically one in the front and one in the rear of the aircraft. Most of the time, there isn’t a reason to think about these emergency doors for the rest of ...

The red exit sign dates to the 1930s, when the National Fire Protection Association in the U.S. developed criteria for the emergency exit sign that were adopted by state and local governments ...

Let’s start with the written rules. The Federal Aviation Administration has numerous regulations that govern who can, and can’t, sit in an emergency exit row. You have to be at least 15 years ...