okay, here are my 2 cents to the actual euromania.

jsf's europage: "the euro symbol was designed by the european monetary unit (emu) not as a character like the dollar ('$') or the pound sterling ('£') symbols. in contrary they decided to have a symbol with an exact geometric construction that may not be changed when used with different fonts. as you probably know this is not the case with the dollar and pound sterling symbols. so the official euro symbol is more like a logo than a character".

what a crap! now this kind of shit happens when you leave design issues to non-designers. that hurts, and not only my eyes. it violates any traditional typographic rule. legibility, baby!

fortunately, the typographic-skilled people appear not to be slaves to such stupid buereaucratic authority: "as time shows most font designers won't honour these exact specifications. instead most of the fonts available now that contain the euro symbol construct this symbol according to the look and feel of the other glyphs in this font".

btw. even the name of this new money is really badly designed. why the heck do they pocket a whole continent into a currency's name? or was the german mark ever called "deutscho" or the english pound referred to as "britney"?

well in fact, the first currency was named after the city of florence, and the german word "taler" stems from the gold coins production facility in the town of thal (which then became the dutch "daalder" and finally found its way to the new world as dollar – as far as the windmill herald is right).

what a totally useless knowledge...