This is a stab in the dark, but maybe Exclusive Rights (Wiki)

Or maybe it's e for Established.

I've seen it used as "edition" in the past, but I've not been able to find a cite for it in "the usual suspects" (Chicago, GPO, Words into Type, APA, AMA, MLA, AP, CP, NYT, NYPL, Gregg, EAC, G&M).

What about this one? I often see it on beauty products, next to the size in mL.

I see in the unicode naming when I open a font in Fontlab that it is called 'estimated.'

I guess it means estimated weight? But why do they always look exactly the same??

That's Estimated indeed, and it's the same because it's a standardized icon/logo.

Yup -- it's another ISO developed for multi-national companies.

Nah, the character I saw was a lowercase e (maybe 18 pts high in Frutiger 75), with a 1 pt vector circle drawn around it. I assumed the typographer was trying to emulate some existing symbol, and this was the ony way he/she could think to do it.

During the dotcom boom IBM ran marketing campaigns using @ with an e inside the circle. It could be some variant.

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, did anyone bother to read my first posting on this topic?

The "e" encircled like a a copyright mark is a relatively obscure and now unused "edition" mark.

The stylized and really huge graphic that JLM posted is an "equivalent measure" mark, and certified by ISO.

>At the risk of pointing out the obvious, did anyone bother to read my first posting on this topic?

Your answer may be correct, but it's incredibly dull. Sorry. ;-)

Oh, silly moi. ;-) In that case, it stands for eyre. Should I rant and rave, and misspell things also? Would that help?

LC - I'm detecting a pattern in your responses. You do rant and rave, resort to ad hominem attacks, and have used 4 letter words with asterisks instead of vowels. Are you related to Muzzer?

ROFL! Just because we don't put up with people suffering from terminal Acute and Horrible Disease of Humor Deficiency (AHDHD)?

(Hint: in the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn "it's a joke, son, a joke". Sheesh!)

Wow.

Linda related to muzzer...two continents of fun :-)

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, did anyone bother to read my first posting on this topic?

Just because you provided a correct answer does not mean that you provided the only answer. And besides, it’s a slow week and I need something to do while I wait for Indesign. to open and close files from our terminally slow file server.