366 Creating a Prohibition (or Universal No) symbol

- In this movie, I'm going to show you…how to create the prohibition symbol,…which is this guy right here.…I'll go ahead and zoom in on it.…It's a red circle with a red diagonal…line through it.…I sometimes also call it the Ghostbuster's sign.…It's also know as the universal no.…And while it's not hard to create,…it's important that you get it right.…This should be something that every working…designer knows how to do.…So I'll go ahead and switch over…to this document here.…Now you can indicate no with a red circle…or with a diagonal line, but most…folks prefer to use both because…it results in the least amount of ambiguity.…

But it is important that the angle of your line…go from the upper left corner to…the bottom right corner.…And you can remember it because that's the same…the same angle as the bar in the N.…So you're really are combining an N and an O…to get this symbol.…If you rotate the diagonal line…so that it goes from the bottom left…to the upper right, that indicates…the end of prohibition.…And while you don't see that sign that often…