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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsybitsybtc OP 5 Dec 2022 \ on: Voting on the Sats symbol bitcoin
Well, apparently I can't vote in my own Poll, but if I could my vote is for 1.
My background is in branding and design. I’ve helped establish and maintain global corporate identity systems, and I think the Sats Symbol meets every important piece of criteria to achieve world wide adoption and usage.
- It is distinct from every other currency symbol and yet it looks like a currency symbol.
- It can scale well to any size large or small.
- It requires the bare minimum to reproduce.
- It looks digital. Pure, straight lines.
- It is derived directly from the Bitcoin symbol, as a sat is still part of Bitcoin.
While I think Option 2 is clever, and could also work, there are a few things going against it.
- It is too derivative of an existing symbol. Why have it resemble the @ symbol at all. Bitcoin is a new thing, it should have a new visual language.
- It does not have great scalability. At very small sizes it will be hard to distinguish between the @ and this proposal. Very large will look oddly proportioned.
- It doesn’t reproduce very well. Consider drawing the 2 symbols for a road side stand in Cambodia. Which is going to be easier to marker, and read from the road?
- The S with the lines is derived from the $. It is basically $+@. Why do we want any visual heritage from that absolute shitcoin in a brand new symbol in the Bitcoin design language. It also makes it feel more US centric. Bitcoin is for everyone.
I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t move forward adopting the 3 line sats symbol. It should be a unicode character, it should be in phone keyboard layouts, it should sitting right next to the Sats amount in this very website.