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      seemee last edited by

      JustaBitofTime Edit:

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      • Markus1337:

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      Besides the three letter acronym of feathercoin, FTC, would it be a good idea to reach consensus over the use of a currency sign?
      Because of the official bitcoin logo, the Thai baht sign ฿ was more or less automatically adopted by users (for example by the BTC Trading Corp. [url=http://btct.co]btct.co[/url]).
      I live in Thailand for quite some time and I’m sure that most of it’s 67 million inhabitants will object to alternative usage of their currency sign.
      Their culture, royalty, country including their currency are a part of their pride and not very open for debate to say the least.
      For Litecoin use of the Ł is being discussed, see: [url=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79849.0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79849.0[/url].
      So, what’s the best sign for feathercoin?
      [url=http://ftc-wallet.com]ftc-wallet.com[/url] uses an italic capital f or [i]F[/i].
      Æ’ is the old Dutch guilder sign used until 2002 and would be another candidate.
      It is still in use as a notation for Aruban florin and Netherlands Antillean guilder, but this concerns about 331,000 citizens.
      Alternatively the old French Franc sign â‚£ could be used.
      This is still partly in use to denote Comorian (CF), Congolese (CF), Djiboutian (Fdj/DF), Guinean (FG/Gâ‚£) and Swiss (Sâ‚£) francs.
      What do you think looks better for FTC?
      [i]F[/i]30.75 [i]F[/i]0.25 [i]F[/i]1000
      Æ’30.75 Æ’0.25 Æ’1000
      or
      â‚£30.75 â‚£0.25 â‚£1000

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        Entimp Regular Member last edited by

        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.

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          seemee last edited by

          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

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            Smoothie Regular Member last edited by

            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.

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              seemee last edited by

              @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 √ ฿ (somewhat disputed)
              litecoin LTC √ Ł under consideration
              feathercoin FTC √ Undecided

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                Smoothie Regular Member last edited by

                [quote name=“seemee” post=“17772” timestamp=“1372252223”]
                @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 √ ฿ (somewhat disputed)
                litecoin LTC √ Ł under consideration
                feathercoin FTC √ Undecided
                [/quote]

                +1 in a sense it is also branding on a micro level of text.

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                  tuneman1980 last edited by

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

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                    justabitoftime last edited by

                    [quote name=“tuneman1980” post=“17779” timestamp=“1372253897”]
                    I support making this decision to solidify the community from the start.
                    [/quote]

                    Agreed. Now is the time to get this figured out before we have inconsistencies between future merchants.

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                      A Former User last edited by

                      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

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                        A Former User last edited by

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

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                          A Former User last edited by

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

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                            mirrax last edited by

                            I vote for â‚£

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                              sp495 last edited by

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

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                                aysyr Regular Member last edited by

                                [quote name=“mirrax” post=“17799” timestamp=“1372258752”]
                                I vote for â‚£
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                                Whenever I see that all I think of are Frankos lol

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                                  wariolander last edited by

                                  [quote name=“seemee” post=“17755” timestamp=“1372244717”]
                                  Alternatively the old French Franc sign â‚£ could be used.
                                  [/quote]

                                  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 ;)

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                                    Entimp Regular Member last edited by

                                    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,

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                                      ghostlander Regular Member last edited by

                                      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.

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                                      • ghostlander
                                        ghostlander Regular Member last edited by

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

                                        [size=72pt]Ḟ[/size]

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                                          groll Regular Member last edited by

                                          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 ฿ 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 ᚜ e1 9a 9c OGHAM REVERSED FEATHER MARK
                                          U+2F7B â½» e2 bd bb KANGXI RADICAL FEATHER

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                                            aysyr Regular Member last edited by

                                            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.

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