Мой персональный фаворит - Ŧ.
За визуальное типографическое сходство с другими валютными знаками и за комбинацию в себе обеих букв: F (free) и T (ton).
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).
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.
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”
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.
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 (₿).
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.
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.
The question is: should we reanimate it in association with FreeTON crystals?