Traffic signs or street signs will be signs raised along the edge of or above streets to give guidelines or give data to street clients. The most punctual signs were basic wooden or stone achievements. Afterward, signs with directional arms were presented, for instance the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden partners in Saxony.

With traffic volumes expanding since the 1930s, numerous nations have received pictorial signs or in any case disentangled and normalized their signs to defeat language boundaries, and upgrade traffic wellbeing. Such pictorial signs use images (frequently outlines) instead of words and are typically founded on global conventions. Such signs were first evolved in Europe, and have been received by most nations to fluctuating degrees.