Colours and coins #onfleek
Samoan Tala
Stats: 5 coins, 6 bills
Bill colours: Green and yellow, purple and blue, yellow and orange, blue and green, red and pink, blue and yellow
Why it’s awesome: The tala is super colourful, with gorgeous gradients and fab use of complimentary colours. The two tala coin has scalloped edges, and the coins all get bigger as their value increases, making it so easy to differentiate between them.
Canadian Dollar
Stats: 6 coins, 5 bills
Bill colours: Brown, red, green, purple, blue
Why it’s awesome: The coins (with the exception of the rebel dime) all get bigger as their value increases, most people are convinced that the new $100 bills smell like maple syrup, there’s a snazzy see-thru panel, and the bills are monochromatic but still crazy colourful. Plus the $1 and $2 coin are called the loonie and toonie. Hilarious.
Aruban Florin
Stats: 7 coins, 5 bills
Bill colours: Green, red, orange, blue, purple
Why it’s awesome: The florin has a square coin (mic drop). Isn’t that enough? Ok, the bills also feature a cool mix of geometric colour and a refreshing use of white space.
European Euro
Stats: 8 coins, 7 bills
Bill colours: Purple, yellow, light green, orange, blue, red, dark green
Why it’s awesome: The bills are pretty standard in modern-colourful-currency standards, but the coins are not only colour and size sorted, but also feature a national side with different images depending on the Eurozone country in which they originated. Travelling around Europe can easily become a coin version of Pokémon as you try to collect ‘em all.
Hong Kong Dollar
Stats: 7 coins, 7 bills
Bill colours: Orange, brown, red, green, blue, purple
Why it’s awesome: One-upping the tala – two coins feature those awesome scalloped edges, and the 10 dollar bills are beyond gorgeous.
Swiss Franc
Stats: 7 coins, 6 bills
Bill colours: Purple, brown, blue, green, red, yellow
Why it’s awesome: The bills feature huge horizontal portraits and rich colours, and while it’s great that the coin size vs. value trend is mostly consistent (1/2 franc is the outlier) it’s actually the ring of stars and pretty wreath designs that we like best.
South African Rand
Stats: 6 coins, 5 bills
Bill colours: Orange, blue, red, brown, green
Why it’s awesome: The denomination font is a bit small, but those huge animal portraits of rhinoceros, elephants, lions, buffaloes and leopards on the back definitely provide the cool factor.
Australian Dollar
Stats: 6 coins, 5 bills
Bill colours: Green, yellow, red, blue, purple
Why it’s awesome: Oz money reminds us a lot of Aussies in general. The font is so fun and the bills are vibrant, so it’s a perfect fit for a country that is known to be the life of the party.
CFP (French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna) Franc
Stats: 7 coins, 4 bills
Bill colours: Red, blue, orange, green
Why it’s awesome: The CFP franc takes a different approach than our other favourites style-wise, but the rich detail and darker designs are a unique touch that we are definitely in to.
