Yellow.
What strangers see
One word and a yellow dot. Clean, graphic, a bit of a mystery.
What you know
A lot of people check in with traffic-light words: green means keep going, yellow means slow down or check in, red means stop. Yellow is the pause that keeps things good.
Of all the words in the traffic-light check-in, yellow is the most underrated. It isn't a no. It's "let's adjust", and it's what good communication sounds like in the moment.
We gave it a yellow full stop instead of our usual red, because it earned one.