Every month, Strasbourg becomes the capital of the European Union for one week. Because of this, Strasbourg moved its website from the Strasbourg.fr domain to Strabourg.eu, using the new Internet domain for the European Union.
In 2010, Strasbourg also started using a new logo which incorporates the Internet domain. The name is written in a sans-serif typeface (probably Avenir Heavy), with the exception of a and the g, which are shapely serifs (probably Bodoni). I have no idea what the symbolism might be, if there is any.
The logo is usually presented against warm background colours, and the wordmark is mostly white, with the exception of the .eu part which takes a slightly brighter shade of the background colour.
The new logo doesn't use any symbol at all, making Strasbourg one of few French cities to use only a wordmark as its logo.
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