Ryo Currency is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency launched in April 2017, built on its own blockchain with no premine or ICO. The project’s name derives from the Japanese word “ryo” (両), an ancient Far East unit of weight standard used for exchanging gold and silver. The currency uses the ticker symbol RYO.
Design and History
Ryo Currency’s visual identity is distributed through an official Branding Pack, which the project makes available on its website. The pack contains both the Ryo Currency and Ryoblocks logos in raster and vector formats, including 18 raster logo and slogan images in PNG format, 5 vector logo and slogan images in SVG format, and 13 full-HD logo 3D renders, some with transparency. The project explicitly permits free use of these images as illustrations for blog posts, tweets, and other materials about Ryo Currency. [1]
The logo’s theme colors were documented in a 2018 submission to the open-source cryptocurrency-icons project, which listed the theme color as #3299d3 with a gradient of #62c9f3 and #3d58b0. [2] The logo is available in square formats, with third-party repositories distributing it at 250×250, 64×64, 50×50, and 25×25 pixel sizes. [3]
Ryo Currency is a fork of Sumokoin, which itself derives from Monero and the CryptoNote protocol. The project burned 8,790,000 Ryo coins to eliminate the original Sumokoin premine. [4]
Meaning and Symbolism
The project’s name carries documented meaning: “Ryo” (両 in Japanese) originated from the Tael, an ancient Far East unit of weight standard used for exchanging gold and silver. The name is pronounced as one syllable in Japanese. [4]
Typography and Design
The official Branding Pack includes vector logo and slogan images in SVG format, indicating that the identity is designed for scalable reproduction across different media. [1] No official documentation of the specific typeface used in the wordmark was found in the available research sources.
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