FTC currency sign - Voting Requested

Entimp

I like the use of the Æ’ perhaps moreso in italic like this: [i]Æ’[/i].

For me it represents the norse/germanic rune ‘fehu’. In short it represents wealth and fertility. The rune isn’t written as such but is represented in unicode as such. I wouldn’t be that shocked to discover that the florin symbol has an origin in the rune Fehu due to germanic cultures reaching this part of Europe.

To add complexity, should it be represented in a serif or sans-serif font? Serif means the curly bits you see on the end of the letters tails. Sans meaning without. The serif bit doesn’t have to be super gothic and wild but can be just a little flick if that makes any sense.

seemee

I’m not sure if there’s a connection with Norse/Germanic Rune script Entimp.
Would be nice, but as far as I googled, florins were first minted in Italy in 1252.
The sign Æ’ is described in Unicode as follows.
U+0192 Æ’ ƒ Latin Small Letter F with hook

Smoothie

I kind of figured the feather would work as the logo.

Form a forum perspective a FTC logo (the feather) to be inserted into posts like bitcoin has on the BTCtalk forums would be awesome.

I’m not exactly sure how to implement this. I envision it wouldnt be that difficult.

seemee

@Smoothie:
The more people using the logo the better, but I was thinking about even more PR for feathercoin, in a way that the more things are settled the easier it will be to use and to promote.
I’m talking about future businesses and services who might consider using a shorthand notation for FTC.

[b]Current status comparison[/b]
Name Acronym Logo Currency sign
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bitcoin BTC âˆš à¸¿ (somewhat disputed)
litecoin LTC âˆš Å under consideration
feathercoin FTC âˆš Undecided

Smoothie

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@Smoothie:
The more people using the logo the better, but I was thinking about even more PR for feathercoin, in a way that the more things are settled the easier it will be to use and to promote.
I’m talking about future businesses and services who might consider using a shorthand notation for FTC.

[b]Current status comparison[/b]
Name Acronym Logo Currency sign
_____________________________________________
bitcoin BTC âˆš à¸¿ (somewhat disputed)
litecoin LTC âˆš Å under consideration
feathercoin FTC âˆš Undecided
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+1 in a sense it is also branding on a micro level of text.

tuneman1980

I support making this decision to solidify the community from the start.

justabitoftime

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I support making this decision to solidify the community from the start.
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Agreed. Now is the time to get this figured out before we have inconsistencies between future merchants.

how about an [i]f[/i] and under this a little c for coin
or the [i]f[/i] with one line crossing it from above like the $?

Sorry, have no drawing app on my phone, hope you can imagine what i mean

how about the italic f with a little c attached for coin?
something like this
i cant draw i know;-)

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Or the italic f including a c for coin?
I still cant draw, i know

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mirrax

I vote for â‚£

sp495

How about this Ò’, it’s a cyrillic script.

aysyr

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I vote for â‚£
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Whenever I see that all I think of are Frankos lol

wariolander

[quote name=“seemee” post=“17755” timestamp=“1372244717”]
Alternatively the old French Franc sign â‚£ could be used.
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I am French, and I never saw “â‚£” sign in France before Euro came in 2002. I discovered it on Wikipedia just a few moments ago lol

We used only “F” sign for “Franc”, and sometimes “FF” (French Franc)

Anyway, “â‚£” would be my choice for Feathercoin, it seems all major currencies have a dash into their symbol ;)

Entimp

Fehu aside, though I’m probably wrong on its connection… the symbol has to be an existing unicode character. Simply so that users can type it without relying on finding a font file to produce it. It would be nice to design our own one,

ghostlander

There is also “[url=http://graphemica.com/Æ’]Latin capital letter f with hook[/url]” in the Unicode table.

[size=72pt]Æ’[/size]

Although there are various glyphs of this letter.

ghostlander

Here we have “[url=http://graphemica.com/á¸ž]latin capital letter f with dot above[/url]”.

[size=72pt]á¸ž[/size]

groll

at first I liked “â‚£”. But it’s in the Franco logo so I would avoid that. I would avoid any currency sign for a currency in usage (like the à¸¿ of Bitcoin that is the thai Baht currency sign of thailand)
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign[/url]

their is a lot of stylish F a like in the unicode that should be good to go

http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=F

my favorite was U+1D571 but it can’t print in forum correctly without lots of work so a no go

we also have the feather one

U+169B áš› e1 9a 9b OGHAM FEATHER MARK
U+169C ášœ e1 9a 9c OGHAM REVERSED FEATHER MARK
U+2F7B â½» e2 bd bb KANGXI RADICAL FEATHER

aysyr

From the list that groll posted that would actually show up correctly on my computer, I like the Fraktur symbol U+1D509

A non-letter symbol as he suggested would also be unique and interesting.

groll

yep but put it in your message and the message end :( so need unicode wrapping to use it not very convenient