Combines Devanagari and Roman scripts

~ The symbol was designed by Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam who loves his mother-tongue (Thamizh), art, design, and typography. He studied B.Arch. at Anna University, Chennai, and M.Tech. at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Mumbai, and completed Ph.D. as well. His Rupee-Symbol got cabinet's approval by which he won Rs. 2.5 lakh.

D Udaya Kumar who designed the Currency Symbol for Indian Rupee

A competition was held among Indian citizens to come up with some innovative ideas and unique symbols to represent our Rupee in Global market. Over 3,000 entries were showered-in and they were evaluated by a jury headed by the RBI deputy governor, which had experts from art and design industries.

It will take some time to print this symbol on notes and coins. However, this symbol will be included in the 'Unicode Standard.'

This is our newly-created Currency Symbol

The symbol is based on Devanagari script. He said 'since my specialisation is typography, I want to promote Thamizh typography. At the moment, we don't have the facility for designin' in regional language. I want to develop the principles and rules and regulations for future generations to study Thamizh typography.'

~ ~ The symbol will take a while to appear on the keyboard. As a character, we can brin'-it-up on our screen with the help of newly-created font. Mangalore-based Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd has made it possible by creatin' a font called Rupee-Foradian. We can download the symbol from the company's site for free - (This trial/full version of the font is in .ttf format).

http://blog.foradian.com/

To type-in this symbol, follow these TIPS - - -

` After downloadin' the font, copy it to the c:/Windows/Fonts folder on your Windows-platform computer.

` The company created the symbol and mapped the 'grave accent' symbol (the key just above the 'Tab' key on the keyboard) with the new rupee symbol.

` Open a file in a word-processor. Type the first character on the keyboard (grave accent key which appears to the left of 1). Select the character, and apply the Rupee_Foradian font, the symbol appears.!!

This is Grave-Accent key

For Mac users - there is a video clip, at http://blog.foradian.com/, which clears-the-fog in a detailed manner to type-the-font-in.

For Linux users - copy the file to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Rupee/Rupee_Foradian.ttf

and log-off; and log-in to make it available.

Other TIPS - - -

• Those who cant see the grave accent key - Try 'alt + 0096' (Type 0096 while holding down "alt" key on your keyboard).

• Use the currency symbol in Excel --- Start => settings => Control Panel => Regional and Languale options => Regional options => Currency. Now change the $ to `. Now you can enter the numbers in Excel and change the font to Rupee and format the cell to Currency.

 

Simply, you friends just visit this site http://blog.foradian.com/ where you can see all about Rupee Symbol.

 

There is a video - this will show you how easy it is to use the font.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSfhzuU7Crw

 

CounterView - - -

-> This symbol will take more than a year to be commercially used.

-> They say 'it raises India's economic profile.' Unfortunately, there is hardly any chance for the boom.

Reason: only four currencies have symbols that are the US Dollar, British Pound, Japanese Yen and European Euro. They have gone for a unique symbol so that their currency can be easily distinguished in global financial transaction. These are the most freely convertible currencies in the world and majority of international financial transactions take place through them. This is where we are kiddin' ourselves. The world will not take the new symbol eagerly. Our Indian rupee is nowhere as convertible. It is a clear indication that the Indian currency simply does not have the same heft as the other big four currencies in the world and global financial transaction and global market as well.

-> Rupee symbol is imporatnt too.

-> Is there any justification for this exuberance?

 
Source: http://blog.foradian.com/ and ToI