The prototype of this symbol comes from well-known letters, so it is easy to identify. The two horizontal lines in the middle can be reminiscent of two lines on currency symbols such as the US dollar and the Japanese yen. These basically meet the requirements of the European Union for the euro logo: it symbolizes Europe, is easy to identify and write, and is beautiful.
The EU still believes with satisfaction that the shape of this symbol is based on the Greek letter ε, and Greece is the birthplace of European culture, so it symbolizes the cradle of European culture and the first letter of European characters, and the parallel double horizontal lines represent the stability of the euro.
The official structure of the euro symbol, which stipulates that the international three-letter code of the euro (ISO 42 17 standard) should be printed as EUR in yellow on a blue background. Its logo is a specially designed euro symbol (? ), two of the ten design schemes were selected through public opinion survey, and finally submitted to the European Council for selection of the final design.
The final winner was designed by a team of four experts. Council of Europe declared that this symbol is "a combination of the Greek letter epsilonΕ representing European civilization, the European E representing the stability of the euro and the horizontal parallel lines".
Council of Europe originally stipulated that the euro symbol has a certain structural proportion and does not change with the font.
This provision means that the euro symbol will be used as a symbol, rather than a designable symbol like letters or other currency symbols such as dollars and pounds. However, keeping its size strictly will cause the euro symbol to be wider than other symbols and numbers in most fonts, sometimes causing some layout problems. Therefore, most font designers ignore Council of Europe's regulations and design their own variants of the euro symbol in various fonts, usually based on the capital letter C in the font. The picture above is the official euro symbol.