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Symbols found on product packaging.
All 221symbols recorded in this context, A–Z.
An allergen name set apart in the ingredients.
Bold or otherwise emphasised words in an ingredients list, marking allergens.
A black octagon: high in sugars.
A black octagon: high in calories.
A black octagon: high in saturated fat.
A black octagon: high in sodium.
Two curved arrows with the letters ALU, marking aluminium packaging.
Brazil's radio equipment approval.
Brazil's health product registration.
A capital B in a circle above the word Certified.
Longer bars marking a barcode's edges and centre.
Blank margin required either side of a code.
A code identifying which production run a product came from.
A chemical symbol printed under a crossed-out bin.
Letters and numbers naming a cell's physical size and chemistry.
Two date marks meaning quite different things.
An informal, uncertified leaf or sprout-style icon marketing a product as biodegradable — unlike the certified Seedling logo, with no fixed graphic or independent standard behind it.
A trefoil of overlapping circles, designed to be instantly recognisable as a warning for biological hazards.
A blue figure with outstretched arms inside a ring of laurel, Germany's environmental label.
A lens on a black bar.
Day or date labels printed on a blister pack, one per dose.
A footprint outline, usually with a figure, stating a product's emissions.
The letters CE in a defined geometric form, declaring conformity in the EEA.
A cross in a circle marking where a package balances.
An instruction to press and turn a closure.
The letters CCC in a rounded frame.
A graded bar chart on an orange ground.
Ten rings around a mountain and sun.
A bud and sun in a circle.
A seed device in a green roundel.
A droplet cupped in two hands.
A warning about a child's age.
An exploding bomb on an orange diamond.
A flame on a red diamond, for flammable gas.
A gas cylinder on a green diamond.
A skull and crossbones on a white diamond.
A flame on a red diamond, for flammable liquid.
A flame on a blue diamond, for water-reactive material.
A flame on a red-and-white striped diamond.
A flame on a half-white, half-red diamond.
A flame on a half-red, half-yellow diamond.
A flame over a circle on a yellow diamond.
A biohazard symbol on a white diamond.
A skull and crossbones on a white diamond.
A trefoil on a diamond, with a category bar.
Liquids burning a hand and a surface, on a split diamond.
Vertical stripes above a plain lower half.
A number or letter that is a manufacturer's code, not a measurement.
Four percentages naming a colour in printing inks.
A dense barcode with three character sets.
A measurement in inches or centimetres, unlike most garment sizes.
A seedling, and a condition.
A certification mark for compostable material.
A boxed figure verifying the whole code.
Three letters identifying the container's owner.
Six figures identifying the individual box.
Four characters giving dimensions and kind.
A rectangle warning of caffeine.
A rectangle warning of sweeteners.
Small pictograms for oven, hob, microwave and grill.
A capital C inside a circle (©), used to indicate a claim of copyright in a work.
A statement of where a product was made or last changed.
Venezuela's standards seal.
Vietnam's regulated-product mark.
An ear of wheat struck through inside a circle.
An ear of wheat crossed through, marking a certified gluten-free product.
A rabbit device certifying no animal testing.
A metal plate certifying a container's structure.
A matrix code with an L-shaped finder.
Plates or glasses under falling water, indicating dishwasher use.
An instruction against refreezing thawed food.
A crossed-out box on a box, forbidding anything placed on top.
A code stamped on a shell.
A digit, a country code and a farm number on each shell.
A thermometer in a triangle, for a hot load.
A retained placard on an emptied unit.
A machine-readable code linking to a product record.
A star inside a stylised label outline, marking energy-efficient products.
A stylised letter e beside a net quantity.
A flower whose petals are the twelve stars of the European flag, marking reduced environmental impact.
A ladder of coloured arrows from green to red, grading a product's energy efficiency.
A leaf drawn in stars on a green field, marking certified organic food.
A hatched-border square with a class number.
An hourglass or EXP mark giving the date after which a product should not be used.
A blue and green circle enclosing a figure holding up an arm, certifying trading terms.
A fish and a tick, in blue.
A gear description and a catch area on a fish label.
A warning about how cloth burns.
A wine glass and a fork, marking material safe for food contact.
A broken wine glass warning that contents are breakable.
A snowflake, indicating suitability for freezing.
A tick-tree device beside the words FSC 100%.
A checkmark-and-tree logo certifying that wood or paper-based packaging material comes from responsibly managed forestry.
The tick-tree device beside the words FSC Mix.
A bordered notice on a fumigated unit.
A leaf, sprig or green swirl used on packaging with no scheme or definition behind it.
An image of a substance corroding a surface and a hand, in a red-bordered diamond — the GHS symbol for corrosive hazard.
A black image of a dead fish and tree in a red-bordered diamond, the GHS symbol for aquatic/environmental hazard.
A black exclamation mark in a red-bordered diamond, the GHS symbol for lower-level health/physical hazards or irritation.
A black exploding-bomb icon in a red-bordered diamond, the GHS symbol for explosive hazard.
A black flame above a black circle in a red-bordered diamond, the GHS symbol for oxidizing hazard.
A black flame icon in a red-bordered diamond, the GHS symbol for flammable hazard.
A black gas cylinder icon in a red-bordered diamond, the GHS symbol for gases under pressure.
A black human silhouette with a starburst on the chest, in a red-bordered diamond — the GHS symbol for serious, longer-term health hazards.
A black skull and crossbones in a red-bordered diamond, the GHS symbol for acute toxicity.
Two interlocking green arrows forming a circular motif, marking that a packaging producer has paid into a European packaging-recovery scheme.
Bracketed digits naming what follows.
A mark from a certifying body stating that a product is permissible under Islamic law.
A glass, an umbrella, a chain.
Circumference measurements dressed up as sizes.
The upper figure group on an orange plate.
An oval carrying a country code and an approval number.
An eagle marking national origin.
Six hexadecimal digits giving red, green and blue values.
A mark certifying a material breaks down in a domestic compost heap.
Bolivia's standards seal.
Colombia's conformity seal.
A coil or spiral, indicating cookware works on induction.
Ecuador's standards seal.
Brazil's compulsory certification mark.
Costa Rica's standards seal.
Paraguay's standards seal.
Argentina's standards seal.
A bold barcode inside a heavy frame.
Japan's agricultural standard mark.
Japan's industrial standard mark.
A capital J, the SI unit symbol for the joule.
The day of the year, as three digits.
Korea's single safety mark.
A sun beside a package, requiring storage out of direct light.
An umbrella under rain, requiring the package be kept from wet.
A child-and-hand or crossed-child mark warning against accessible storage.
A temperature instruction for chilled storage.
A code panel naming origin and lot.
Category marks on a coded bag.
A letter or monogram in a shape, identifying the body certifying a product kosher.
Korea's industrial standard mark.
A leaping rabbit outline, certifying that a product was not tested on animals.
A diamond with solid upper and lower triangles.
A bordered mark with batteries and a flame.
A capital or lower-case L, the symbol for the litre.
An S certifying electrical safety.
A dead fish and a dead tree in a diamond.
A thermometer or snowflake marking a medicine's required storage conditions.
A regional mark above the national ones.
Wavy lines, or a dish beneath them, indicating microwave use.
Three arrows chasing each other.
A white fish outline with a tick-shaped body on a blue oval, certifying wild-caught fisheries.
Mexico's official standard mark.
A white swan in flight on a green disc, the Nordic countries' official ecolabel.
Five graded letters with one enlarged.
A rounded badge with the words OK compost HOME.
A wording panel stating whether packaging is widely recycled or not.
A divided orange plate carrying two code numbers.
Stars arranged as a leaf.
A stylised oven, or a temperature figure, indicating oven use.
A hatched band warning of extra height.
A word declaring a repacked load.
Alphanumeric codes (such as PAP, FE, ALU, GL) identifying non-plastic packaging material composition under EU rules, parallel to the plastics resin codes.
Grams per square metre, or pounds per unusual ream.
Letters and numbers ranking a pencil's hardness and blackness.
An open jar with a number and M, giving months of use after opening.
A tag that says a permission exists.
Letters and numbers pressed into a tablet, identifying the product.
A bottle you can read in the dark.
A ringed emblem marking a food whose name is legally protected by origin.
A blue and yellow ring for place-linked food.
Japan's electrical safety mark.
A square block of black and white cells with three large squares at its corners.
A small nested square within the code.
Three nested squares at the corners.
An alternating line of modules.
A green frog in a circle, certifying farm and forest management practices.
A four-digit number naming an industrial colour exactly.
The same three-arrow recycling loop with a numeric percentage inside or alongside it, denoting the proportion of recycled material actually contained in a product.
A bin marked with the recycling loop, showing where to deposit recyclables.
Three chasing arrows forming a triangular loop, used internationally to indicate recyclability or recycled content.
A red tractor in a flag device, certifying British farm assurance standards.
Panels giving a portion as a share of a daily reference.
A superscript capital R inside a circle (®), used only for marks formally registered with a national trademark office.
A mark showing a pack can be closed again.
A chasing-arrows triangle around the numeral 1, identifying PET.
A chasing-arrows triangle around the numeral 2, identifying HDPE.
A chasing-arrows triangle around the numeral 3, identifying PVC.
A chasing-arrows triangle around the numeral 4, identifying LDPE.
A chasing-arrows triangle around the numeral 5, identifying polypropylene.
A chasing-arrows triangle around the numeral 6, identifying polystyrene.
A chasing-arrows triangle around the numeral 7, meaning any other plastic.
A number inside a triangle.
Recess shapes naming how a fastener is turned.
Chile's electrical and fuel safety seal.
A stylised sprout icon certifying that packaging meets the EN 13432 standard for industrial compostability.
Brazil's energy efficiency label.
A device tying goods to a document.
A destination cut through a plate.
A number whose meaning depends entirely on which country's system.
A letter grading how wide a shoe is at a given length.
A plain triangle of three straight lines, without arrowheads.
A feature showing whether a pack has been opened.
An arrow or notch showing where to open a pack.
A thermometer between two bounds, giving a storage temperature range.
Two upward arrows beside a package outline, fixing its orientation.
A figure putting litter in a bin.
A stick-figure pictogram of a person putting litter into a bin, a UK-trademarked anti-littering mark that also appears informally on packaging worldwide.
A stamp giving strength class, moisture and certification.
A superscript 'TM' (™), used to indicate a claimed but not necessarily registered trademark.
A colour-coded panel rating fat, saturates, sugar and salt per portion.
A figure with three arrows curving around it.
A letter code limiting passage through tunnels.
Three ratings on one card.
Graded classes for grip, noise and fuel economy.
A number keyed to a table of maximum loads.
A letter naming a maximum sustained speed.
The letters UKCA declaring conformity for the Great Britain market.
A four-figure substance number on a plate or placard.
Uruguay's standards seal.
A licensed mark for products free of animal input.
A stylised sunflower growing from a V, certifying a product free of animal ingredients.
A licensed mark for products free of animal flesh.
A graded scale rating water consumption.
A crossed-out wheeled bin symbol required on electrical and electronic products under EU law, instructing separate collection rather than general disposal.