Ice Cream

Synonyms / Other Terms Used

Icecream, Soft Ice Cream, Frozen Custard, Ice Cream Parlor

Category

Services, Concessions, Commercial Facilities, Travel, Tourism

Message / Function

For notice in general and to indicate the location of a facility where ice cream is sold

	Source	Description
	Dutchicon	Parallel projection of cone with soft ice cream in outline
	DB	Side view of cone with two scoops of ice cream
	D'source	Side view of cone with three scoops of ice cream
	Fiori	Side view of cone with two scoops of ice cream
	SIS	Side view of cone with three scoops of ice cream
	Schiphol	Side view of cone with three scoops of ice cream
	Bolivia	Side view of cone with ice cream
	U.S. National Park Service	Side view of cone with several scoops ice cream
	freizeitkarte osm.de	Side view of cone with two scoops of ice cream
	jabbar	Side view of cup with ice cream
	Adrien Coquet	Side view of ice cream bar

Discussion

The collection above suggests that something like a visual stereotype can be identified for indicating facilities where ice cream is sold: the side view of a cone with one or several scoops of ice cream. Besides these images of mostly soft ice cream one also can find variations of renderings of ice cream bars.

Test data for the referent Ice Cream is rather limited:

When Fiori (2008) examined a map symbol displaying the side view of a cone with two scoops of ice cream on top (labeled Fiori in the table above) on basis of a Comprehension Test, 91.0 % of the responses were classified as correct, and 99.2 % when applying lenient scoring. This image content seems to be almost perfectly comprehensible.

Recommendations

Based on the test results available we recommend using a pictogram displaying a side view of a cone with ice cream similar to this example pictogram from D'source (India).

Tests of pictograms of referent Ice Cream

Fiori, S. R. (2008): Mapas para o turismo e a interatividade - proposta teórica e prática. Tese de Doutorado - Depto. de Geografia, FFLCH-USP.