Ruble sign on a computer keyboard. Symbol (sign) of the ruble of the Russian Federation

Ruble designation. The history of the approval of the symbol.

The symbol (sign) of the ruble is an abbreviated graphic designation of the word "ruble", i.e. ruble symbol.
If the first mention of the ruble appeared in the 13th century, then the first mentions of the abbreviated sign of the word "ruble" appeared only in the 17th century. The very name of the monetary unit for 800 years has remained unchanged and has come down to our time, but the graphic symbol (sign) of the ruble by the end of the 18th century had lost its main purpose and was not officially mentioned further.

In Russia, the symbols of power (coat of arms, flag, anthem, social and political structure of the country and even its borders) were periodically changed, but the ruble invariably remained the country's currency. But numerous attempts to develop and re-approve a graphic image of the symbol (sign) of the ruble did not yield results until 2006.

This year, the problem of introducing the sign (symbol) of the ruble came to state level, and on June 12, 2006 to Article 4 Federal law dated July 10, 2002 N 86-FZ "O The central bank Russian Federation", an addition was made in the form of clause 2.1 as follows:

Article 4. The Bank of Russia performs the following functions:
2.1) approves the graphic designation of the ruble in the form of a sign;
(Clause 2.1 was introduced by Federal Law No. 85-FZ of 12.06.2006)

Work on this issue did not start immediately, it was carried out rather slowly and with long attenuation of activity. In 2007 was created working group The Bank of Russia, which considered more than a thousand applications from citizens and organizations with proposals for writing a graphic designation of the ruble and studied all the ideas of the Internet community.

Throughout the world, the word "ruble" is associated precisely with the words Russia, and the Russian ruble in the eyes of people symbolizes our country, so you cannot be mistaken in choosing a sign. In the meantime, the issue with a sign was not resolved, in the banking environment (in Russia and abroad), unofficially there existed and symbolized Russia unapproved images of the ruble in the form - "RU", "RUR", "RUB", etc. And this is not correct - the sign of the Russian ruble should in no case be written in English or other foreign letters.

Interestingly, since 1991, on all banknotes of the Bank of Russia, a hidden image of the letters ‘’ РР ’(Kipp - effect) was used as one of the signs of the authenticity of the banknotes. Maybe this image should become a symbol of our ruble, if it is already present on banknotes from the moment the first banknotes of the Russian Federation were issued. This would be logical for the Russian ruble - "RR".

The responsibility of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for making a decision on the graphic image of the ruble is very great, because this decision will last for centuries. The information portal Izvestia.Ru reported that work in this direction continues and the Central Bank received more than 100 variants of the ruble image, and after a careful selection of the commission, there were only three of them left. Perhaps the Bank of Russia is not entirely satisfied with these options, and he hesitates with a final choice. This is confirmed by the fact that the Central Bank decided to find out the opinion of the members of the National Banking Council by showing them sketches of a graphic image of the ruble.

In the meantime, the essence and the point - in the business life of banks and enterprises, there is a discrepancy. So, for example, in all the information provided on the website of Sberbank of Russia, a sign has been put down recently - "rubles" or "rubles of the Russian Federation".

2013 - work on the ruble sign intensified

The Bank of Russia working group considered more than a thousand applications from citizens and organizations with proposals for various spellings of the graphic designation of the ruble, and studied the ideas of the Internet community. Among them, the five most frequently proposed options were selected. To make the final decision on the choice of the ruble symbol, the Bank of Russia submits five finalist signs for public discussion ...

The symbol (sign) of the ruble is approved

At the end of 2013 (12/11/2013), that is, literally 6 days after the completion of the vote, the Bank of Russia approved the graphic designation of the ruble (ruble symbol). The second option was approved - in the form of a capital letter "P" of the Cyrillic alphabet, supplemented in the lower part with a horizontal line - ₽ ... During the last public discussion, over 61% of the voting participants voted for the ruble symbol approved by the Bank of Russia. The rest of the options had a significant lag, and their results ranged from 19.2% to 1.9%. The winning sign does not have a specific author, as said by the First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Georgy Luntovsky.

Symbol (sign) of the ruble

Official ruble symbol description given by the Bank of Russia as follows:

The graphic designation of the ruble in the form of a sign is a capital letter "P" of the Cyrillic alphabet, supplemented in the lower part by a horizontal line, which creates the impression of the presence of two parallel lines, which symbolizes the stable position of the Russian ruble.
The symbol can be executed in upright and italic style.

... the ruble sign is quite convenient to write and use, and business participants will use it on an absolutely voluntary basis "

Graphic designation of the ruble in the form of a sign on coins

And on June 17, 2014, the Bank of Russia for the first time put into circulation 2 coins at once with the image on the reverse of the graphic sign of the ruble of the Russian Federation. The practical introduction of the ruble sign into everyday life began. The following coins were issued:

1. Type of coin reverse - "Three rubles" (made of silver)

As you know from various sources, in the near 2013 the ruble, like many other currencies, acquired its own symbol.

The ruble sign has already been implemented in some fonts and in HTML markup. In HTML, by the way, the character code is:

Many online stores, and other sites related to monetary transactions, actively replace the usual "Rub", "RUB" and "r." to the new ruble sign. But there is one problem- not every computer has this symbol, and instead of the ruble symbol we see the following:

And this is the picture most of your clients have. And this needs to be corrected as soon as possible, because without the presence of the appropriate currency sign, we mislead your customers and, thereby, lose precious customers.

Today I will show you how using the standard letter "P" and CSS you can get a ruble icon that will display on all devices correctly, as it should.

1. So the first thing we need to do is wrap our letter in a span tag:

R

2. Then we write a little style for it:

Rub (line-height: 5px; width: 0.4em; border-bottom: 1px solid # 000; display: inline-block;)

We save and see what we got:

In my opinion - very good. Optionally, you can change the size of the horizontal bar, its color and position relative to the letter "P".

Sign, symbol of the Ruble: ₽The symbol or sign of the Russian ruble (₽)- typographic symbol, which is included in the group "Currency Symbols" of the Unicode standard and is called "Ruble sign"; code - U + 20BD. Mainly used to represent national currency Russian Federation - ruble. The graphic designation of the ruble in the form of a sign is a capital letter "P" of the Cyrillic alphabet, supplemented in the lower part by a horizontal line, which creates the impression of the presence of two parallel lines, which symbolizes the stable position of the Russian ruble. The symbol can be executed in upright and italic style. It was approved by the Bank of Russia on December 11, 2013. The approval of the ruble symbol is one of the functions of the Bank of Russia in accordance with Article 4 of the Federal Law “On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)”. The ruble symbol approved by the Bank of Russia was previously supported by more than 61% of the participants in the public discussion held from November 5 to December 5, 2013 on the website of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation... Source: 1 - Wikipedia, 2 - Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
Typical symbols that perform these functions:

R. rub. ₽.

Ruble symbol (font size 96)

₽

Currency code "Russian ruble" ISO 4217

since 1998: RUB and 643

earlier: RUR and 810

Russian ruble symbol codes

Name:

HTML code:

Description of the approval process

Ruble symbol on coins and stamps
Such coins were put into circulation on June 17, 2014: commemorative silver coins with a denomination of 3 rubles, as well as coins made of steel with a galvanized nickel coating with a denomination of 1 ruble. Silver coins are issued in limited edition: proof quality 500 pieces, uncirculated quality 1000 pieces. Coins in denominations of 1 ruble are issued within the framework of the emission program with a circulation of 100 million pieces. Description of the coin on this

Nowadays, everyone knows what the ruble designation looks like. You can see the symbol of this currency in the article. In it we will talk not only about its history of origin. We will also tell you about how to enter the ruble designation in the text entry field. of course not specified, but still there are ways to enter it. We'll cover all of them in this article.

The history of the symbol

Initially, of course, it is worth paying attention to the history of the appearance of the symbol. as a currency appeared in the distant thirteenth century. And almost immediately there was a need to reduce it. There were a lot of variations, but the first known version that became known to us was a combination of two letters - "p" and "y". One thing can be said for sure: this reduction appeared as a result of the evolution of the then writing in Russian. By the way, this abbreviation appeared in the 17th century and was used until the 19th.

In our time, another designation for the ruble is the symbol "₽". However, it should be noted that this spelling option is relevant only for banknotes of Russian origin, and everyone knows that the ruble is used in three countries: Russia, Belarus and in the unrecognized Transnistria. It is different for each country.

• in Belarus - "Br";
• in Transnistria - "R" with a line that runs vertically.

But in the article we will only talk about the Russian ruble.

Insert from keyboard

So, we have already done the main thing, we have indicated the designation of the ruble. We know the symbol, and now it's time to tell you how to enter it from the keyboard. The first method that we will use appeared relatively recently, in 2013. But it is worth noting that Microsoft has not implemented this symbol in all of its OS, but only in the actual.

So, continuing to talk about the designation of the ruble, you will not find the symbol on the keyboard, as mentioned above. Here you will need to use the keyboard shortcut - Alt + 8.

Everything is quite simple, after pressing these two keys, the ruble symbol will be printed in the place where you placed the cursor. But it is worth making a note that Alt must be pressed with the right, not the left, and the eight must be entered on the upper numeric keypad, otherwise nothing will work.

Insert using symbol table

The above was presented the simplest way entering the ruble symbol. But for some reason it may not work (broken key or outdated Windows version). What if you urgently need to enter the ruble symbol? The symbol in the "Word" will help you with this. So, now let's look at a way to insert a ruble symbol into a document using the symbol table in the "Word".

This is done quite simply, the main thing for you is to initially open the table itself. To do this, go to the "Insert" tab. Now on the toolbar you need to find the "Symbol" button. Click on it, and in the drop-down menu select "Other Symbols". You can visually observe the whole process in the picture below.

Now you have the table you want. As you can see, there are an unimaginable number of characters; manually searching for the desired one will take a long time. In order to facilitate the search, you can select in the "Set" drop-down list Monetary units". After that, you will see different countries... Find the one you want and click the "Insert" button. Pay attention to the sign code, it will come in handy further.

Using hexadecimal code

Remember the code you needed to pay attention to? It is he who is the hexadecimal code of this character. Now let's look at how it should be used to enter the ruble symbol.

And there is practically nothing to do here, you just need to enter the code and press ALT + X. But for greater clarity, let's look at everything with an example.

Let's say you entered a number in the "Word" and want to put the ruble symbol at the end. For this:

• place the cursor in the desired place;
• enter "20BD";
• Press the keyboard shortcut ALT + X.

After that, the code will turn into the symbol we need. If you want to find out other symbol codes, then for this you can view them in the table with symbols, simply by highlighting the desired element. A set of four characters will be displayed in the "Character code" field, which is the hexadecimal code of the selected character.

Using the clipboard

Well, and the last method is generally for the lazy, although few people know about it. With the help, you can insert not only a printed symbol into the document, but also the very picture of this symbol. To do this, a picture or symbol must be placed initially on the clipboard, that is, simply copied. When the desired object is in the buffer, make sure that you do not copy something else there, otherwise nothing will work.

After that, open the program or page where you will enter the character, paste the copied object using the CTRL + V combination or the context menu.

By the way, you can use this article to copy the material you want. Here is the symbol itself - "₽". By the way, in this way you can copy any symbol or image.

Symbol (sign) of the ruble- the abbreviation of the word "ruble" that arose as a result of the evolution of Russian writing, which was used from the second half of the 17th century to the second half of the XIX century and was a ligature, a combination of superscript letters "p" and "y" natural for cursive writing. Over time, this ligature lost its original meaning and by the end of the 18th century it had become an independent symbol, adjacent to modern letters.

The priority of opening the sign belongs to the Minsk historian Ivan Sinchuk. The priority of the first scientific interpretation of the sign belongs to Ekaterina Vorobyova.

Currently, two variants of the style are used as unofficial symbols of the ruble: the lowercase letter "p" with a dot ("p."), As well as the so-called "Lebedev-Tarbeev sign" (the letter "P" with a crossed-out leg).

In accordance with clause 2.1 of Art. 4 of the Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)" (86-ФЗ dated July 10, 2002), it is the Bank of Russia that "approves the graphic designation of the ruble in the form of a sign." As of December 1, 2012, the ruble symbol has not been approved.

XVII-XIX centuries

Timeline and use cases

One of the first accurately dated examples of the use of the ruble sign is contained in the Epiphany Slavinetsky's Collection of Translations. It is found in the so-called sale record (an inscription on the margins of a book that testified to the fact of owning, buying or selling a book), which reads: “In December 1681, on the 5th day, sold this book, the verb to heaven, by the Belakhon Vasily Ivanov, son of Tveritin, to the town dweller Terentyev, son of Michnik. And I, Vasily, took 12 rubles 100 altyn 2 money for that book. And I signed it, Vasily, with my own hand. I sold it clean and true and put my hand in it. ".

The latest known example of the use of the ruble sign dates back to the first half of the 19th century. It is found in the note on the flyleaf of the Code of Law of the Tsar and Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich, which reads: "4 rubles, December 18, 1830"... The recording was made by Academician Pavel Stroyev, one of the first collectors of ancient Russian written monuments, on a book that was part of his personal library.

There are examples of the use of the ruble sign not only in personal and business correspondence, but also in official documents, for example, in the inventory of things and money seized from the Decembrists during arrest (State Archive of the Russian Federation, f. 48).

From a letter from Ivan Sinchuk to the editorial office of the Dengi magazine dated 11.11.1999

Historical documents allow us to conclude that by the beginning of the 19th century the ruble symbol was familiar and was actively used by representatives of many estates Russian Empire: army and court scribes (bourgeois), booksellers (merchants), university professors (commoners), nobles. There is, for example, a document addressed to the poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

The sign of the ruble, similar to that presented in the affairs of the Decembrists, I met in the letters of the professor of Moscow University Mikhail Kachenovsky to Vasily Zhukovsky, in which they discuss financial questions associated with the publication of the journal "Vestnik Evropy". The first letter is dated January 3, 1812, the second - February 23, 1814. The sign is also found in a letter from Kachenovsky to a professor at Kazan University Perevoshchikov, where it is a question of sending books for sale. The letter is dated September 18, 1817.

From a letter by Yuri Evdoshenko to the editorial office of the Dengi magazine

The end of the use of the ruble sign dates back to the middle of the 19th century.

Since the sign is found in letters, and in reports, and in inventories, it can be concluded that it is widely used both in official documents and in everyday correspondence. This is confirmed by other "cases" of the 48th fund. For example, “The case of things and money that belonged to Batenkov” (No. 296), “The case of the auction of things that belonged to no one knows who, and the criminals Yushevsky and Shchepin-Rostovsky due to inconvenience to correspondence” (No. 297), the case “At the request arrested persons on the release of their own money for the purchase of tobacco and for other needs "(No. 298)," The case of government claims opened against former regimental commanders and other officers involved in the case of secret society"(No. 300) ... But in the documents of a later period, the" ruble sign "is no longer found. In any case, I did not find it in other documents randomly ordered from the State Archive of the Russian Federation relating to the middle of the 19th century (in the first and second inventories of the 95th fund "Investigative Commission of 1862. Material evidence", in case No. 245 "On vacation money to the Petersburg and Moscow commissions, at the request of Count MN Muravyov and on the expenses thereof "and in case No. 6" Accounts of MM and E. Dostoevsky, cash receipts and bank statements ").

Pavel Timashkov specially for the magazine "Money"

It should also be noted that there was an experience of using the ruble sign in printing - in particular, in Magnitsky's "Arithmetic" (1703), but this experience was not widespread.

Historical outline of the ruble symbol

The act of converting copper into coins (XVIII century)

According to the classical version, which Ekaterina Vorobyova adheres to in her works, in the combination of letters "ru", which became the basis of an independent ruble sign, the letter "r" ("rtsy") is rotated 90 ° counterclockwise, and the letter "y" ("uk" ) is written over it. Another point of view is held by Ivan Sinchuk, who believes that the letter "p" is rotated 90 ° counterclockwise, and the letter "y" written on top of it is rotated 90 ° clockwise. Both versions find their confirmation in the primary sources: the specific style of the sign strongly depends on the peculiarities of the handwriting and varies from a clear reproduction of one of the options described above to the usual cross.

The use of cursive letter combinations of the 16th-17th centuries is a widespread phenomenon in the practice of scribes of the 18th-19th centuries. As often as the letter combination "ru", the ligature of the superscript letters "m" and "y" was used. For example, it appears several times in the Definition on the reorganization of the Academic University, compiled by Mikhail Lomonosov and recorded by a scribe on 02.14.1760, and is used as the end of ordinal numbers in the dative case: history and politics ". Like the ruble symbol, the ligature "mu", which originally appeared as a combination of superscript letters, is written in the superscript (superscript) to the right of the numbers.

In the 17th century, the ligature "ru", being the actual combination of letters, was written over the numbers in accordance with the rules of cursive writing. At the same time, Cyrillic letters were used as numbers, over which a titlo was written. In case of monetary amounts titlo was replaced by the cursive ligature "ru".

At the beginning of the 18th century, Cyrillic letters-numbers were replaced by Arabic numerals, and the need to use the titlo disappeared. From this moment on, the ligature "ru" begins to shift in relation to the numbers to the right and downward, losing its original meaning as a letter combination and turning into a full-fledged symbol, an independent grapheme.

In the 19th century, having become a sign, the ligature "ru" is significantly reduced in size and is written to the right of the digits above the main line - just as ordinal numbers in English are now written using digits, that is, using a superscript, or superscript (1 st , 2 nd, etc.). In Russian, when handwritten, such an index is usually underlined with one or two dashes (1 th , 2 th etc.). But in the case of sums of money, the horizontal "p" often replaces such lines.

Thus, replacing first the title, and then the single or double underscore, the horizontal "p" in the ligature-sign "ru" was greatly simplified to a straight or wavy horizontal line. As a result, the classical cursive ligature in the form of a horizontal "p" and a vertical "y" written on top of it began to resemble the shortened letter "y" crossed out below the middle.

Modern interpretations of the ruble symbol

The only attempt to scientifically systematize the variants of the ruble sign drawing on a very limited material (documents from 1820-1830 from the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno) was made by Ivan Sinchuk in his work “The Many-Faced Ruble Sign”.

The only professional attempt to link the historical ruble sign to the main typefaces of modern fonts in 1998 was made by the art director of ParaType Vladimir Efimov.

The only attempt to create a modern logo based on the sign of the 17th-19th centuries in 2005 was made by journalists and artists of the magazine "Everything is clear" (repeated in 2009 in the magazine "Idea X").

The variant of writing the sign with one stroke in 1999 was proposed by Yuri Kalashnov.

Symbols of other denominations and units of account

A comparative analysis of documents of the 18th century and documents of the 19th century suggests (so far this is an assumption that requires additional study) that other denominations also had their own symbols Russian money, in particular, a penny, money and altyn.

Having originated as superscript combinations of letters typical for cursive writing ("de" - money; "ko" - a penny) or just letters ("a" - altyn), the quasi-symbols of these denominations retained their main cursive features until the first half of the 19th century, violating the already established time reduction rules. So "money" should already be abbreviated as "den." or "d.", and a penny - like "kopeck." or to.". But like the ruble symbol, they only shifted in relation to the figure to the right and slightly down, supplemented by a single or double underscore (penny - NS, money - de, altyn - a).

The end of the use of these symbols, like the ruble symbol, dates back to the middle of the 19th century.

Drawings of ligatures of the ruble symbol and the penny symbol

Ruble symbol	Penny symbol

The ligatures are based on the work of Ivan Sinchuk "The Many-Faced Sign of the Ruble", prepared on the basis of documents from 1820-1830 from the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno.

XX-XXI centuries

Chronicle

With the start of integration Russian economy in the world (90s of the XX century) and widespread use in the domestic Russian circulation foreign currencies(first of all, the dollar, which has its own recognizable sign), proposals have been repeatedly made to introduce a sign for the Russian ruble. With the advent of the euro and the approval of its sign, such proposals began to sound more often and resulted in several unofficial competitions, actions and initiatives to introduce the ruble sign.

The first of the well-known is the competition, which was held in 1997 by the Financier magazine and about 300 entries were submitted (the author of the idea is Andrey Eremenko).

Finalists of the "Sign of the Ruble"

The second in time was the "Sign of the Ruble" campaign, which in 1999-2000. conducted the Dengi magazine and the Portfolio Graphic Designers Club (the authors of the idea were Yuri Kalashnov and Petr Bankov). It was attended by 300 authors, who proposed a total of about 1000 options for the outline of the ruble sign. An important feature of this action was that during it, for the first time in modern history, evidence was found of the existence of the ruble sign of the 17th-19th centuries. At the same time, about 1000 people were interviewed, who were asked the question "Does the Russian ruble need a symbol similar to the signs of the dollar, euro, pound sterling and other currencies?" More than 85% of the respondents answered positively. To the question whether contemporaries are ready to consider the combination of superscript letters "p" and "y" as a sign of the ruble now, it was received next result: 73% - "for", 23% - "against".

The third competition was “Draw the Symbol of the Ruble!” Held by the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” in 2005-2006. The competition became the most massive in terms of the number of applications submitted: the editorial board received more than 5,000 sketches.

The fourth competition - "Think of the sign of the ruble", held by RIA Novosti in 2006. The organizers received about 300 proposals, and the best ones were sent to central bank and the State Duma.

It is also necessary to note the huge number of isolated initiatives, which were expressed in direct letters to various bodies. state power(primarily to the State Duma and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation) and even registration of images of the ruble sign in the Russian Authors' Society.

In addition to contests and promotions, a study conducted in 2006 by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) and the Izvestia newspaper deserves attention. On May 25, the newspaper published 13 characters, which were previously selected by experts interviewed by Izvestia. VTsIOM presented them to Muscovites in four focus groups and found out that 4 signs left Muscovites indifferent, 3 were found inappropriate, 4 - "ambivalent". Only two signs aroused interest among the respondents. These are the projects of Tagir Safayev (Latin "R" with two horizontal lines at the top of the vertical leg) and Vladimir Efimov (Latin "R" with a doubled diagonal leg). The results of the research were presented on June 14 at the round table "What should be the sign of the ruble?"

Later, the Bank of Russia working group on approving the ruble symbol held several more meetings, but no official press releases were issued following its work, so the topic easily became the object of various speculations. Here is just one typical example:

A source who took part in the work of the Central Bank commission told the Jeans news agency that the new ruble sign will be officially approved after some time, but the final decision on how it will look has already been made. New sign ruble will look like this: P. That is, it will be a capital Russian letter "P" with a dot. The sign is put through a space after the digital designation of the amount (for example: 100 R.), the source said. According to him, this sign was approved mainly for the following reasons: such a designation is intuitively understandable to any Russian; Russian "P" can be written in the absence of a Cyrillic font, replacing it with a similarly looking Latin letter "P"; everyone will be able to use this sign immediately after approval - there will be no need to enter it into international standards some additional symbol, wait a long time for it to appear on keyboards and spend huge amounts of money on the implementation of this sign.

It is also believed that the Central Bank is considering the abbreviation "РР" as a symbol of the ruble, which is one of the tools for protecting Russian paper money from counterfeiting and is visible on the strip under the pattern on the obverse of the banknote when viewed at an acute angle in reflected light (kipp effect). The basis for this conclusion was a letter received by the organizing committee of the "Sign of the Ruble" campaign from the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in response to an invitation to delegate a bank representative to the jury of the competition.

In mid-2007, the design studios "Design Depot", "Design", "Direct-Design", "Imadesign", "Letterhead", ParaType and the Studio of Artemy Lebedev suggested using the letter "R" with a leg crossed out below the semicircle as a ruble sign. ...

To select the “Sign of the ruble” symbol, we used objective criteria that are important for its effective use: Simplicity of graphics; Difference from other characters of the letter, adopted in the main font systems, primarily in Cyrillic and Latin; Intuitive comprehensibility to the representative of the Russian-speaking culture. The sign is introduced primarily into domestic circulation, therefore it is more important that Russians perceive it correctly than foreigners; Convenience of writing by hand (among other things, motor memorization is the fastest and most reliable); One-part. A single grapheme character is faster to read and usually takes up less space. A one-piece, non-ligature character is easier to integrate into a table set, which is extremely important in this case; Font independence. A symbol, a grapheme, is introduced into use, and not a sign of a specific font. This grapheme should lend itself to stylization for any typeface of an existing or future typeface when supplemented with a ruble sign; Uniform density. The absence of areas overloaded with strokes, too small, unnecessary strokes. These parameters become crucial in the small-leg set. The sign should not float in the fourth point of the text font; The width is no more than zero (the widest digit). An important parameter: in typesetting fonts, the widths of currency symbols must match the widths of the digits to simplify the table typesetting; Comprehensible to a foreigner familiar with the Latin alphabet; The presence of slight unusualness within the normal range, contributing to memorization and recognition.

From the manifesto of design studios