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SYM·0096
SYM·0096 · Rupee

Indian rupee

the best-documented glyph here

Unicode
U+20B9 indian rupee sign
Meaning
The currency of India, and a deliberate statement that the currency has a script of its own.
History
Designed by D. Udaya Kumar and selected in 2010 through a public competition run by the Government of India — with a stated brief, a shortlist, a named winner and a published rationale. The form fuses the Devanagari with the Latin R, and the doubled horizontal bar reads both as the equals sign of a stable value and as an allusion to the national flag. Unicode encoded it the same year.
Variants
Weight and bar spacing vary by typeface; the construction is specified.
Related
Euro (SYM·0082), the other committee-born mark — and the contrast: the euro’s authorship is still argued over, this one is not.
Appears
Indian pricing, keyboards, and every font shipped since 2010.
Evolution
Public brief → competition → codepoint, inside a single year.

Sources · 3

  1. documented The Government of India’s 2010 rupee symbol competition, and D. Udaya Kumar as the selected designer.
  2. documented The published rationale: the Devanagari र with the Latin R, and the doubled bar.
  3. documented The Unicode Standard, U+20B9, encoded in Unicode 6.0 (2010).