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iebng
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September 7, 2010
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Creating a font for a Symbol

  • September 7, 2010
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Hi,

With rise of Indian economy along with China, the Government of India has approved a symbol used to denote the Indian currency 'Rupee'.

Question is how to implement it as a font.

In General how to create a font. Some say its possible in Adobe Illustrator, how

Thanks

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    Anonymous
    September 7, 2010

    Why do you want to re-invent the wheel?

    A number of fonts have already been created tht include the new Rupee

    and Paise symbols. Some of them even have them in their correct

    unicode positions.

    Google for

    new rupee symbol font.

    - Herb

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    iebngAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 8, 2010

    Thanks for the post.

    We use Clan, Expresso and Prelo series of font in our newspaper.

    Question is how to make the rupee symbol to be incorporated in the font series.

    What is the process of creating a font in Illustrator and implementing it into the series as font.

    Thanks

    Jacob Bugge
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    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 8, 2010

    iebng,

    In order to integrate the Rupee symbol in your font(s) (rather than changing back and forth, using one of the fonts mentioned by Herb), and without violating any copyright, you may:

    1) Decide which glyph you can do without (and one you can easily remember and use);

    2) Open (each) font (repeating for bold/italic/bold italic/whichever variation relevant) in the font creation application, rename the font, and find that glyph;

    3) Recreate the rupee symbol in Illustrator or other application, choosing a matching size and shape (your rupee symbol(s) can be different, adapted to your font(s);

    4) Replace the disposable glyph by your rupee symbol in the font creation application, and save the altered font.

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 7, 2010

    iebng,

    In General how to create a font. Some say its possible in Adobe Illustrator, how

    You can create the glyph/symbol in Illustrator, which is an obvious application for that.

    But you cannot make/include it into a font without an actual font creation application.

    And you should be aware that there are different quality requirements in different target applications.

    You will probably get away with just about anything in a word processing application.

    (An application like) Illustrator is particularly particular because it allows you to reshape things (warp, effects, etc), so it may more or less directly declare: this is not a font. It may simply refuse to recognize it so you do not even see the font in the Fonts dropdown, and the font may even crash it.

    Depending on your actual/ultimate need, you may consider different levels. I think I remember my having heard of free applications; at Fontlab it starts with 99$ (Type Tool): http://www.fontlab.com/

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