Summary

DescriptionEuro Construction.svg	This diagram illustrates how to draw a euro symbol, based on official documentation, and has been prepared specifically for Wikipedia and released to the public domain. ADF and BCDE intersect at D. BCDE, GH, and IJ are parallel. BCDE intersects centerline at C.
Date	30 August 2006, 19:33
Source	Own work
Author	Erina
Other versions	EuroConstLarge.png; EuroConstLargeColor.png
SVG development InfoField	The SVG code is valid.   This diagram was created with Inkscape.    This diagram uses embedded text that can be easily translated using a text editor.

Assessment

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Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

References

The official diagrams of the euro symbol are copyrighted and downloadable from the official European Commission site, and include:

• constr_en.wmf Windows Metafile (WMF) with constructions (archive)
• euro_en.wmf Windows Metafile (WMF) without constructions (archive)
• constr_en.tif TIFF with constructions (archive)
• euro_en.tif TIFF without constructions (archive)
• JPEG with constructions
• JPEG without constructions

The official diagrams are provided in industry standard TIFF and WMF formats, and are meant to be imported into a graphics editing program, such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

The Wikipedia version was created with Adobe Illustrator and rendered in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. It bases the guidelines for construction of the symbol on the key data provided for the official symbol, but it was prepared from scratch and does not duplicate the official diagram, and it is released to the public domain.

A very similar color version of this diagram is available at en:Image:EuroConstLargeColor.png, showing the official euro symbol colors. It's prettier to look at but correspondingly more difficult to read.

Editing

• Changed the decimal separator to comma (International System used in Europe). --F l a n k e r 19:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
• Modified the borders of the symbol and trasformed the arrows. --F l a n k e r 22:13, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Added the letters. --F l a n k e r 22:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)