King Charles III's new cypher is a design classic

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Today we use the new British royal cypher to dive deep on the design of royal monograms and how they are used.

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0:00 The Queen's "logo" was her royal cypher
0:32 What exactly is a cypher?
1:05 Queen Elizabeth II's cypher
2:18 The cypher of King Charles III
3:16 When monograms go wrong
3:49 A typographic side-by-side
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5:43 The challenge with crowns
7:46 Comparison with previous British monarchs
9:06 Comparison with other current European monarchs
11:46 Dual cyphers

Correction:
1:13 Crowned, not coronated.
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