# Lucide Icons Cassette Tape Icon (Default)

- Artifact: PictoClarity public report
- Canonical HTML URL: https://pictoclarity.com/@pictoclarity/lucide-cassette-tape/default/
- Markdown URL: https://pictoclarity.com/md/@pictoclarity/lucide-cassette-tape/default/
- Owner: pictoclarity
- Slug: lucide-cassette-tape-default
- Language: en
- PictoClarity Score: 0.58
- Application contexts: Mobile app, Web app, Desktop app

## Summary

Framework output for the Lucide Icons Cassette Tape icon in the default style.

## Interpretation

Visible referent: cassette tape. Intended message: The icon must communicate Cassette Tape in a digital interface. The report separates observed asset evidence, submitted context, and public evidence signals.

## Diagnostic

Assessing the communicative effectiveness of the Cassette Tape icon

This reviewed catalog report estimates clarity for Cassette Tape in default interface contexts. Scores are screening estimates and do not replace user testing.

## Findings

- Primary referent: cassette tape.
- Implied function: The icon must communicate Cassette Tape in a digital interface..
- Metaphor type: legacy_functional.
- Functional meaning: The icon must communicate Cassette Tape in a digital interface..
- PCS total: 0.58.
- The symbol depends on a meaning with measurable semantic age.
- Comprehension likely varies by generation or prior exposure.
- The sign behaves as a learned convention rather than a transparent pictogram.

## Recommendations

- Validate whether users learn the convention or infer the action directly.
- Test the pictogram with users across age bands.
- Pair the pictogram with a modern functional cue.
- Run representative user testing before publication.
- Keep the text label visible until semantic transparency is proven.

## Metrics

- PCS - PictoClarity Score: 0.58
- STS - Semantic Transparency Score: 0.52
- CRI - Confusion Risk Index: 0.61
- VRS - Visual Readability Score: 0.86
- PCH - Perceptual Cohesion: 1.00
- RTS - Readability Test Score: 0.88
- SRS - Scale Robustness Score: 0.73
- BRS - Blur Robustness Score: 0.90
- TCS - Target Contrast Stability: 0.78
- SDS - Stroke Durability Score: 0.85
- SFS - Silhouette Fidelity Score: 0.94
- NDS - Negative Detail Score: 1.00
- BBS - Bounding Box Balance: 0.82
- CPS - Compression Preservation: 1.00
- PDS - Pixel Density Suitability: 1.00
- ORS - Orientation Robustness: 0.94
- CAS - Color Accessibility Score: 0.60
- RRS - Referent Recognition Score: 0.47
- FAS - Functional Association Score: 0.61
- SOS - Semantic Obsolescence Score: 0.81
- CSS - Cultural Saturation Score: 0.40
- ERS - Evidence Reliability Score: 0.36
- MTS - Metaphor Transfer Score: 0.48
- TDS - Temporal Decay Score: 0.69
- GDS - Generational Divide Score: 0.75
- CLL - Convention Learning Load: 0.74
- NTR - Neurocognitive Transfer Risk: 0.55
- SPS - Symbol Persistence Score: 0.34
- OBS - Obsolescence Signal: 1.00
- CTS - Cohort Transfer Slope: 0.01

## Evidence Notes

- External evidence not used for public claims - Some external references were not relevant enough to support public cultural or trend claims. Omitted: OpenAlex annual evidence: cassette tape icon comprehension; Crossref annual evidence: cassette tape icon comprehension.

## Evidence Sources

- Lucide Icons cassette-tape SVG - asset_source - https://lucide.dev/icons/

## Public Use Guidance

PictoClarity scores are evidence-based screening estimates, not certifications or observed human comprehension rates.
Use this public report with attribution to PictoClarity and the canonical HTML URL above.