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Comment on Indian Rupee Symbol – Font Download by Arjun

Arjun — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:12:42 +0000

Oh, one correction to my comments. Based on the discussion at typophile.com, I think the better way to do this symbol is to start with the Devanagari Ra and draw a thinner currency bar than to start with the Latin R.

Comment on Indian Rupee Symbol – Font Download by Arjun

Arjun — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:11:48 +0000

A couple more links for you:

Very interesting discussion on the glyph: http://typophile.com/node/72290

Font with better Rupee encoding than Foradian: http://rajudasonline.spaces.live.com/

Comment on Indian Rupee Symbol – Font Download by tanvi

tanvi — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:10:15 +0000

Thanks for the pointers – I’ll redo them as and when I get more time. There is a software to make them – I use Fontlab Studio. It’s pretty simple once you get a hang of it.

Comment on Indian Rupee Symbol – Font Download by Arjun

Arjun — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:39:02 +0000

Nice start but couple of points:

- The lower horizontal bar needs to be closer to the upper one. It doesn’t look cluttered if you draw the lines nicely.
- Why don’t you take the base ‘R’ from these fonts and then reform to make the symbol. This is the guideline from the original designer and this is how he arrived at the symbol.
- Code the symbol at U+20A8 instead of `. This will allow people to search for the symbol using web search engines. If you use `, there will be no way for a search engine to distinguish between the uses of the symbol and the uses of the reverse quote (which are common in Unix). See here: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Test_CurrencySymbols.html to confirm that the Rupee symbol has the codepoint U+20A8.

BTW, how do you create fonts anyway? Are there programs available to do this?

Comment on Indian Rupee Symbol – Font Download by outpost

outpost — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:33 +0000

It would be difficult to give suggestions without actually doing it…so, may be one of these days I will draw a version and then we can compare notes. However, my first impression:

Times:
The top horizontal with stubby serif on left seems like a no-no..may be both horizontal strokes can have diagonal chamfer/cut or some other resolution. Top curve of R does not look very elegant and is bumpy. The diagonal of R where it meets the curve above, needs to move to left..maybe this junction needs to be worked-upon. Also, when compared to Arial, symbol seems to be more weighted to center/right. In my opinion, when weighted to left like in Arial, it would have better character.

Arial:
Again I feel top curve and its junction with diagonal can be better. Overall it seems better resolved then Times. That slight left weighted gives it a character. All joints may/will need some optical correction.

Hey, just some random observations…nothing in stone.