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It's good that Turing gets put on a banknote - and about time. However, the concept art in that article is really ugly. I'm not that familiar with British ban
by Athas 7y ago
It's good that Turing gets put on a banknote - and about time.
However, the concept art in that article is really ugly. I'm not that familiar with British banknotes - are they usually that messy looking? Every piece of text is in a different font, and it seems pretty vulgar to have a quote on the note at all. There's even drop shadows! It honestly looks like something I'd put together in Corel Draw in the mid-2000s.
- justinator 7y agoAnti counterfeiting measures, perchance?
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- jsty 7y ago> are they usually that messy looking? They don't really look much like that. See: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current-banknotes https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current-banknotes I'm hoping the fact that's just the concept art means it'll be reworked to appear more like the existing notes ...
- dmix 7y agoThat $5 pound note looks great, I love the white sides with the emblem of the notes in general. But the pattern remains, those bills are for the most part extremely dense and overflowing with information and layered graphics. Especially the existing $50 one which is crammed full of stuff. It's like someone came up with a list of ideas and said yes to all of them.
- hollerith 7y agoIf the design were more minimalist, they would be easier to counterfeit.
- bigwavedave 7y agoTruth! There's always a human element though... A previous employee of mine once accepted a $10 bill that turned out to be a $1 bill with a zero drawn in black marker on each corner of the bill by the ones. The store was insanely busy that day so I can kind of understand how she let it slip past her, but good grief.
- pidg 7y agoYou're kind of demonstrating why the £ design is superior to the $ though
- dmix 7y agoThat's no excuse to make it ugly. There are plenty of ways to achieve this without massively cluttering it. Just look at Canada, Australia, or even Mexican plastic currency. These are nowhere near as bad but are just as secure. Canada: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Canadian_Frontier_Banknotes_faces.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Canadian_Fron... Aus: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d3/91/b8/d391b8dafd8c60277a81d81d85055236.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d3/91/b8/d391b8dafd8c60277a81... MX: https://www.inside-mexico.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Fotolia_74443139_XS.jpg https://www.inside-mexico.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Fot...
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- chrisseaton 7y agoDo you not realise that the point of the complexity is to counter forgery? You're not critiquing a web page design!
- tempguy9999 7y agoIt's mainly an anti-counterfeit thing to have that much info on them. Fact is, there's even more that you can't see, there's microwriting on them too (can't find an image, but on the £5 and probably all others) and it's almost unnoticeable without magnification. Can anyone find an image of this?
- DanBC 7y agoNumber 9, "check the microlettering": https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/banknotes/take-a-closer-look https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/banknotes/... A bigger but not clearer image here: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/5-pound-note https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/5-pound-note
- tempguy9999 7y agoThanks, that's excellent! I couldn't find a thing just now whereas I could find an example few years ago no problem - is it me or is google search getting totally shit?
- DanBC 7y agoI struggle with Google search. I've tried using it like people used to use AskJeeves and sometimes that works and others it just fails. For this search using the words "bank notes" first in the list of search terms ruined the results.
- pidg 7y agoThey're all very different colours, for a start, so you can know what you're holding quickly/intuitively (so long as you're not colour-blind).
- LiamPa 7y agoInteresting, I like the withdrawn notes page https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/withdrawn-banknotes https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/withdrawn-banknote...
- davidivadavid 7y agoI'm not familiar with British bank notes, but from a quick Google query, they do look pretty ugly. However, I would assume that the image in the article looks more like the cover of a Powerpoint presentation than the actual note design itself.
- iamnotacrook 7y agoI just got back from a trip to the States and I have to say that US money is very boring by comparison to UK money. How on earth do blind/old people deal with the fact that all denominations are practically the same size, design, colour etc?
- leecb 7y agoTo assist people with disabilities, you can request a little electronic reader that clips over the corner of the bill: > the iBill Talking Bank Note Identifier, is now available free of charge from the Treasury Department to any US citizen who is blind or visually impaired. > It can speak the dollar amount; it can produce a different pattern of tones for each denomination; or it can vibrate silently > The United States is the only country that prints all denominations of currency in the same size. The US and Switzerland are the only two countries that use the same colors for all of their various bills. https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/accessible-identification-systems-people-who-are-blind-0 https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technolog...
- philwelch 7y agoI believe the $20, $50, and $100 bill are periodically redesigned with accent colors, along with other anti-counterfeiting measures. The $10, $5, $2, and $1 are not valuable enough to be worth counterfeiting so they never redesign them.
- soneca 7y agoI recently moved to the US and I hate its coins. To the point that I consider all of them unusable. When I get home, I leave all the coins that I received as change on a plate by the door, hoping someday I will bring all of them at once somewhere to change for bills (I believe there are machines that do this). My complaints: i) They do not have numbers on them!! You have to read words to know the value ii) To make point i) worse, they have nicknames printed on some of the coins!! They do not write "ten cents", it is "one dime". They do not write "twenty-five cents", they write "quarter dollar" (even the unit here changes) iii) To make points i) and ii) worse, there is no default place where the value is written. $0.01 is a horizontal banner. $0.10 and $0.25 are round-based by the edge of the coin. $0.05 is round-based, but not by the edge of the coin, just slightly above another text that is by the edge. iv) The coins do not obey a coherent progression of value and size. From smallest to largest the coins are: $0.10 < $0.01 < $0.05 < $0.25 v) The colors are all the same, except for the $0.01 coin. So when you have a bunch of coins, you have to properly spread them in your hand to be able to compare their sizes (which is hard when the items are circles), account that there is no size-value correlation, and if you do not remember by size; you have to read a tiny sentence, lost in the middle of several other sentences, with no typographic differentiation of where they are.
- willyt 7y agoI agree, of all the different kinds of UK notes the latest Royal Bank of Scotland notes are my favourite designs [0] [1]. Make sure to look at both sides. One of the confusing things about bank notes in the UK is that there are 5 totally different designs for each denomination: Bank of England, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank and Ulster Bank. This can lead to some confusion when you try to pay someone with a rarer note as they may not have seen them before. Scottish notes are usually OK. Good luck with Ulster Bank notes though. [0]https://www.scotbanks.org.uk/banknotes/royal-bank-of-scotland/fabric-of-nature-5.html https://www.scotbanks.org.uk/banknotes/royal-bank-of-scotlan... [1]https://www.scotbanks.org.uk/banknotes/royal-bank-of-scotland/10-fabric-of-nature.html https://www.scotbanks.org.uk/banknotes/royal-bank-of-scotlan...
- fiatjaf 7y agoThere's also the Isle of Mann Bank.
- mprev 7y agoAFAIK the Manx pound is not Sterling, although it is in parity with Sterling. Manx pounds are not legal currency in the UK but UK pounds (whether the notes are English, Scottish, or NI) are legal in the Isle of Man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_pound
- fiatjaf 7y agoThank you, that explains why no one would take my Manx Pound on England when I tried.