The Danish ministries of education and foreign affairs first solicited designs, and a famous design company submitted the winning blueprint of the crown of the 17th-century Danish monarch Christian V. Following a series of evolutionary design changes, the crown subsequently became the national CI and was to be seen in all major government offices and public places.
先是由丹麥教育部和外交部各自徵圖，由著名的設計公司以 17 世紀 Christian 五世的皇冠為藍圖而獲選，之後經過一連串的演進整合，成為丹麥各主要部會和重要公共場所可見的國家 CI。