Building on Past, Looking towards Future

Introduction
The presented design is an adaptation of the traditional symbol for INR in Devanagari script. This ensures that the new design does not alienate people who have always seen it as the symbol of hope and trust and at the same time it also has more global appeal by being a visual representation rather than a character from any script.

Design Process
After deciding the concept upon which the design was to be based, the traditional symbol for INR was broken up into the basic geometrical elements, rearranged and simplified so that it was a new, modern and progressive design but conserved all what the traditional symbol stood for. The idea was to keep
the design completely unrelated at first look but still incorporate design elements that immediately reminded of the original symbol upon further scrutiny.

Design Symbolism
The top left sideways open circle symbolizes many things central to Indian culture, history and heritage. India is known to the world as the ancient powerhouse of learning. Zero and the decimal system is considered to be one of the biggest scientific contribution of India to the world and the circle on the top symbolizes that. The fact that this circle is open symbolizes that Indian culture has always been a culture open and receptive to other cultures. The direction of opening to the left side imparts an overall impetus to the design in forward direction, thus pointing towards the progressive nature of Indian economy.
Parallel lines represent continuity and stability. The bottom two lines symbolize stability and the strong foundation that the Indian economy stands on.

Mathematical Design
The basic design has three degrees of freedom.
1. The radius of circular top.
2. The angle of opening.
3. Ratio of radius to thickness.
The thickness is same as the distance between the two lines and is also equal to the distance between the upper line and the lower most point of the circular top. Aspect ratio of height to width was fixed to be the golden ratio to harmonize the design with nature thus making the design aesthetically appealing.
One degree had to be kept free for scaling of design and this degree was inner radius of the circle.
After this, for the fixed aspect ratio, ratio of radius to thickness and angle of opening were connected with a constraint and fixing the angle at 109º fixed the radius to thickness ratio to 6.7
Hence the design is mathematically complete.