Keep away from sunlight (sun over a cover)
Keep the box out of direct sunlight and away from heat.
Who puts it on the box
The sender, when heat or light would spoil the contents: chocolate, candles, films, adhesives, some medicines and plastics.
How to read it
Store it in the shade and never in a hot vehicle or by a radiator. Where the sender needs specific temperatures, the thermometer mark (temperature limits) says which.
What it does not promise
It does not promise the parcel travelled in a cooled or shaded vehicle, and it does not say at what temperature the contents spoil: only the temperature-limits mark gives figures.
A mark on a parcel is the sender’s statement about what is inside and how it should be handled. It is not a certificate that the parcel is packed safely, that anyone handled it as marked, or that your carrier accepts it: for what you may send, read the carrier’s own terms.
- What it looks like
- A sun with rays above a roof-like cover that shelters a box below it.
- Standard
- ISO 780:2015, symbol No. 11 — Keep away from sunlight
- Kind of mark
- A handling symbol from ISO 780, the international standard for handling marks on distribution packages. ISO 780 marks are always black; they say how to handle the package, never that its contents are dangerous.
- Also called
- Keep away from heat; Protect from sunlight; Keep out of the sun
Related
Other marks with the same shape
Sources
Each document was fetched and read on the date shown. Written in our own words; quotations are the documents’ wording.
- Symbol list — IBJ / bravecroc (graphical-symbol file vendor): ISO 780 EN Symbols (2015-12): the 17 ISO 780:2015 symbols with their numbers and titles — Lists ISO 780 symbol No. 11, “KEEP AWAY FROM SUNLIGHT”, with a reference drawing, in the 2015 numbering. Checked 2026-09-27.
- Standard (preview pages) — ISO (preview pages published by iTeh Standards): ISO 780:2015 Packaging — Distribution packaging — Graphical symbols for handling and storage of packages, 5th edition 2015-12-01 (preview: foreword to Table 1) — Foreword: the 17 symbols of the 2015 edition; clause 3.3: symbols are black, never red, orange or yellow (to avoid confusion with dangerous-goods labels); 3.4: normally 100, 150 or 200 mm tall; 3.5 and 3.6: how many and where are fixed for symbols No. 1, 2, 3, 8 and 13; the introduction: “The use of graphical symbols does not provide any guarantee of satisfactory handling”. Checked 2026-09-27.