"J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > At 18:29 25-06-2002 -0500, The Fool wrote: > > >Each note has a different dead president on it (cept 20's). Now 50 % > >bigger. > > How does that help foreigners who are not trained to recognise the various > faces and to know which face goes which which value? Show me a pre-Euro > Dutch bank note (while hiding the information on the actual value) and I > can instantly tell you the correct value. Do the same with US bank notes, > and I will be totally clueless. > > >Color does not help the blind or the color-blind and most sight > >impaired people in any way.
With the former Dutch money colorblindness was taken into account for most of the more often used notes. (except for the Hfl 1000) > Probably true, but that group of people is still a minority. It is helpful > for the majority who are not sight-impaired. Combine the use of colours > with some easy to remember pictures (not of people, but of objects such as > buildings, flora and fauna) and you have a winning combination. Honesty bids to mention that the last series of our Dutch currency is the only Europeen currency that didn't have any person or famous building/landscape/sight on their bank notes. Also it has been the most colorful money around. (http://www.penningkabinet.nl/informatie/leerlingboekje/d_zachtgeld.html, besides 'Drupsteen') The Euro, although still somewhat colorful doesn't compare at all to those flashing colors our banknotes had. (I'm still having trouble instantly distinguishing between the rather bland 5, 10 and 20 notes) Sonja
