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I found it hard to vote just by saying "I like this design" for each one individually. Since we have a set of limited option, I'd rather compare and pick the ones I prefer in comparison of the others.

I helped Claude build a simple web app (static, local, oss) to make you choose among pairs, to progressively determine your personal preference.

It outputs your top 3, you can share the summary like this:

  Recto Verso Euro  
  My top euro banknote designs:  
   Design H  
   Design D
   Design B
  → https://pil0u.github.io/recto-verso-euro/#r=HDBJIGECFA&c=68

It's very WIP, but I found this approach useful to fill the survey, so why not share

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I scanned through it and settled on Design H as well, birds and buildings. One thing I started to notice while looking over the design that I had a strong preference for the number to be in the corners. The last two one are "portrait" which feels weird to me but might be more appealing to a younger generation.

In Canada, we have ONE bill with a vertical orientation. [0] The other notes (5$, 20$, 50$, 100$), though designed a bit earlier than then vertical 10$ note but definitely in the same style, are horizontal. There is also a discontinued, but still circulating, horizontal 10$ bill.

I have zero reason to complain honestly. It's never impacted me negatively at all... but aestetically it feels weird when mixed together with other bills.

If you're sorting money, you'll already know which ones are 10$ because they're that colour of purple... but the number won't be facing the right way. If you're making an ATM UI that lets people pick what mix of bills to withdrawl, RBC chose to show pictures of the bills for some reason, featuring the old horizontal 10$ bill (which it doesn't dispense) because clearly the actual 10$ bill wouldn't fit in the UI. [1] (I didn't expect this to be illustrated by a random youtube video, but it turns out the internet has everything.)

Is that a problem? No. Is it juuust weird enough that family from overseas visting me will mention how weird it is every single time they use an ATM? Yes.

If the euro switched to vertical all at once maybe that wouldn't be as weird, but the old horizontal bills are going to be circulating for a long time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_ten-dollar_note

[1] https://youtu.be/sRxo_L9ODwo?si=pihBzi4XTaLoXngF&t=47 (Warning, you have better things to do with your time than watch the slowest person ever withdraw two 10$ bills)

I can get behind some comments here that the buildings are representative of the institution of Europe, not the people. I love the birds, and probably naturally settled to the one where the buildings are less visible ^^

Recto Verso Euro My favourite euro banknote designs: Design B Design H Design E → https://pil0u.github.io/recto-verso-euro/#r=BHECADFIGJ&c=100

Very cool, it made me realize I really like landscape designs which are generic.

Added 20+ languages in the mix, based on the available languages in the survey

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