USP Pictograms

USP Pictograms are standardized graphic images that help convey medication instructions, precautions, and/or warnings to patients and consumers. Pictograms are particularly helpful in passing on important information to patients with a lower level reading ability and patients for whom English is a second language. Here is a sample of the pictograms:

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Take 4 times a day, with meals and at bedtime.
Take by mouth.

Store in refrigerator.
This medicine may make you drowsy.

USP offers 81 pictograms in .gif or .eps format. You can download the entire pictogram library after accepting our license agreement.