Hoping to grab a place alongside the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the Japanese yen, and the euro, India is looking to design a symbol to represent its currency, the rupee. Any suggestions? [%comments]
India to Rupee: What’s Your Sign?
TAGS:
and 
. You can also watch it on 
‘R’ with two lines through it.
I think we should use the symbol for the Artist Formerly Known as Prince
-Andrew
http://www.noyoureatowel.net
twitter.com/noyoureatowel
Like anyone thought long and hard about any of those currency signs. All of them are just letters with lines through them, which is a standard notation for “This letter denotes a currency”
A reversed R, easily cribbed from any font that supports Cyrillic characters.
The Legend of Zelda games have a design that’s been around for decades. Why not go with that?
They would be well advised to get the Unicode consortium to assign a code point to their new symbol, whatever form it eventually takes.
Without doing that, you wouldn’t really be able to use the symbol in any computer-produced document. Which would mean it would be essentially useless, or just for vanity.
Not to mention that the makers of computer fonts would have to produce new versions of their products containing the new symbol. Expect this process to take several years.
The greek letter rho.
Might I suggest: http://tinyurl.com/cqtsbb
or anything similar such as a hexagon with a line through it.
-MBirchmeier