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The Colour of Money

99% Invisible

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Introduction

Paper currency is so ubiquitous that to really look at its graphic design with fresh eyes requires deliberate and focused attention. Arl the fonts, the busy filigree for micro patterns, it's just dreadful. From a pure designer's point of view, it's, i sonot o sits. Thite's like eight funds on this thing, typographically, graphically, symbolically. If it had never been designed before, and someone was to submit that as a solution,. I think they were just sort of throw it out.

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