The cyrrency symbol of FreeTON crystals

[aicracy]

Доброго времени суток, сообщество,

в нашей широко известной группе любителей болтовни на отвлечённые темы внезапно встал вопрос: а каким быть валютному знаку для кристалла FreeTON?

По аналогии с €, £, ¥, ₸, ₽, ₿…

Очевидно, что оптимальным было бы наличие этого знака в таблице символов UTF-8 и незанятость знака в других именитых проектах, валютах и пр.

Ваши примеры, желательно с аргументацией.

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Good day community,

In our well-known chatterbox group, the question suddenly arose: what should be the currency symbol for the FreeTON crystal?

In accordance with following analogy: €, £, ¥, ₸, ₽, ₿ …

Obviously, the presence of this sign in the UTF-8 symbol table and the unoccupation of the sign in other famous projects, currencies, etc. would be optimal.

Your examples, preferably with arguments.

[aicracy]

Мой персональный фаворит - Ŧ.
За визуальное типографическое сходство с другими валютными знаками и за комбинацию в себе обеих букв: F (free) и T (ton).

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My personal favourite is Ŧ.
For visual typographic similarity with other currency symbols and for the combination of both letters: F (free) and T (ton).

[nAMI]

100% agree, if a cryptocurrency have a utf-8 symbol like those that you mentioned it affects so much in the minds of people.
even the Google behave differently.
I searched different cryptos in Google and see how the Google know them the results
if have a letter like symbol Google distinguish it as a crypto currency (litecoin an dogecoin as an example)

if don’t have a letter like symbol Google distinguish it as nothing special or use some words like protocol about that coin (ethereum and IOTA as an example)

I also spent some hours to find a good symbol a and finally I also found the Ŧ as the best one.

[Gregg_First]

Ŧ as for me looks great! And if you google it there is only several articles from wiki about symbol. It looks free from bad history.

[Roman_D]

Agree I like this one more than the other.

[SkyAnn]

I do prefer ‘T with a crown’ I saw in Russian flood chat, can you add it here as one of the possible variants?

[aicracy]

Ť

[michaelshapkin]

Very good in my opinion!

[szaitseff]

We already have an official UTF-8 symbol for TON Crystal according to DoD, arn’t we?

[isheldon]

From the brand identity perspective, “wearing a crown” is bad positioning, I think.

“Visual typographic similarity with other currency symbols”, “combination of both letters” creates the feeling of closeness of the currency to de-facto standards and subconsciously creates “this is for me” mindset.

Crown, on the opposite, “visually says”: “This is not for you, slave”

[isheldon]

emojis are not designed for old school typography stuff.
we can leave it for “fast information” use cases, like messengers

[Platon]

F and mirrored F
how to unsee it? )
It couldn’t be better!

[aicracy]

Yes, we have it and I like it. That symbol fits very good into following line:

… but doesn’t fit into this one:

That’s about typography. Another important point is simple handwriting. I doubt people will paint crystals on a paper bill or in internet article where coloured symbol will just destroy the monochrome letter flow.

[aicracy]

In case someone feels blocked in her/his creativity - we are not linked to the UTF-8 at all. That is nice to have, but also nice to get into this table with a new sign, like bitcoin did it:

The Bitcoin sign is part of Unicode 10.0 (released June 2017)[1] with code point U+20BF (₿).

[nAMI]

the T with top crown is not bad. but I think Ŧ is better. because it is a convention in currencies that they have one or two horizontal line(s) in the middle, so people always know that these kind of characters shows a currency.

[aicracy]

With regret discovered, that Ŧ was already used in another crypto-currency project called Temporary, token built on the Ethereum blockchain. Temporary operated for one year, from September 2016-2017 and seems to be dead now, so Ŧ remains unused in any current project.

Temporary did not maintain a centralised Facebook page.

The question is: should we reanimate it in association with FreeTON crystals?

[aicracy]

We also can discuss the currency code of FreeTON crystals in this topic. Like EUR, USD, BTC…

FTC seems to be logical abbreviation.

With a little bit irony - FTC, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission

[szaitseff]

I think that TON is a logical abbreviation, again with reference to the DoD.

[Nikolay]

My proposal is Ⓣ
Arguments:

1. As I know Ⓣ has been never used before.
2. Circle is meaning infinity and perfection. Its a very universal and famous symbol and has deep history and subconscious impact.
3. T is meaning TON. So it simply to recognize.
4. Ⓣ has unicode U+24C9

[aicracy]

Great! Remembers me a little bit on following…