Yeah, how WOULD you make a serifed, rounded E that
doesn't look silly and doesn't look like a C with
an extra line? Well, maybe you can, I dunno. Anyone
who can do that, I'd like to see it.
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---- Asmus Freytag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:13 PM 7/28/00 -0800, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> >I was not talking about the shape. I think all
> of us have seen it, and
> >many have also read the documents which define
> its exact shape using a
> >ruler and a compass. I was talking about the origin
> of the shape.
>
> In some sense, except for purists, this discussion
> is rapidly becoming
> moot. The 'euro glyphs' have been out in the wild,
> on shop displays, in
> newsprint etc. for well over a year now.
>
> If you will, the 'common man's' idea of what a
> proper Euro glyph is, is
> fast becoming influenced by what he sees on a daily
> basis, not by the
> origin of the glyph or by the logo (which is prescribed
> only for its
> appearance on the currency itself).
>
> Given the name, I'm sure even the 'non-European'
> font designers that Werner
> likes to blame aren't suggesting that the logo
> for the 'e'uro is based on a
> 'c'. However, when you try to put the thing together
> with the serifs used
> in many of the common type faces, the result can
> indeed look a bit like a
> 'c'. This seems particularly true for monospaced
> fonts.
>
> A./
>
>
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