Sat 14 Jun 2008 10:45:54 AM UTC, comment #1:
I'm not sure I fully understand this complaint, but the glyph could use improvement--mostly in Sans and Mono. I disagree
with the remark about the Euro being based on the letter C of the font, and that the lengths should be the same across font variants.
I think of it as more of a big lunate epsilon with two horizontals. See the remark by the European Commission:
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication_summary6125_en.htm
I don't like serifs on this symbol.
Unicode sample
shows a modulated seriffed capital C with horizontals
having vertical terminators.
European Commission
The euro logo is unmodulated and unseriffed, quite round, with
diagonal terminators on the top arm and horizontals, but with the
bottom arm terminated vertically.
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/the_euro/notes_coins8958_en.htm
As it is now in CVS
Serif: Is un-seriffed glyph with diagonal terminators.
Size, weight, modulation consistent with Latin capitals.
Not like Nimbus glyph, which has serifs.
I prefer the un-serifed form, even in the serif face.
But the glyph deviates a lot from the idea of the EU
design:
The diagonals could line up, the terminators could be
more like the EU design.
Sans: Unseriffed, unmodulated. Like the EC design, but
quite squashed horizontally.
This is from URW++ Nimbus, and is most like the EC,
but I don't like it at all, due to the squash.
Mono Is based on capital C, is from Nimbus.
I don't much like the serif.
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