Arthur Eisenmenger is a former chief graphic designer for the European Community. Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ... The European Community (EC) was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ...
Amongst his artistic creations are implementation of the European flag, the CE mark, and the euro sign (€).[1] Flag Ratio: 2:3 The European flag consists of a circle of twelve golden stars on a blue background. ... The constructional details of CE mark The CE mark (officially CE marking) is a mandatory conformity mark on many products placed on the single market in the European Economic Area (EEA). ... The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve of the twenty-five nations that form the European Union (and four outside it, as well as Montenegro and Kosovo), which form the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). ...
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^ Connolly, Kate (2001-12-23). Inventor who coined euro sign fights for recognition. The Observer. Retrieved on 2007-06-05.
ArthurEisenmenger, now 86, created the euro symbol - which is being presented as a 'brand new' sign - more than a quarter of a century ago.
Eisenmenger designed the € as a generic symbol of Europe years before the new currency was mooted.
Then, in the summer of 1997, Eisenmenger was watching live television as the then European Commission president, Jacques Santer, presented the world with the euro symbol - a five-metre-high version in plexiglass - on which the EU governments had unanimously agreed.
The glyph is (according to the European Commission) "a combination of the Greek epsilon [ε], as a sign of the weight of European civilisation; an E for Europe; and the parallel lines crossing through standing for the stability of the euro".
The official story of the design history of the euro sign is disputed by ArthurEisenmenger, a former chief graphic designer for the EEC, who claims to have had the idea before.
The euro is represented in the Unicode character set with the character name EURO SIGN and the code position U+20AC (decimal 8364) as well as in updated versions of the traditional Latin character set encodings.
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