Sign, symbol of the Ruble: ₽Symbol or sign Russian ruble (₽)
- a typographic symbol, which is included in the Currency Symbols group of the Unicode standard and is called the 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 the capital letter "P" of the Cyrillic alphabet, supplemented at the bottom by a horizontal line that 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 direct 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 federal law"O central bank Russian Federation (Bank of Russia). More than 61% of participants supported the ruble symbol approved by the Bank of Russia public comment 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.
Characteristic characters that perform these functions:
R. rub. ₽.
Ruble symbol (font size 96)
₽
Currency code "Russian ruble" ISO 4217
since 1998: RUB and 643
formerly: RUR and 810
Ruble symbol on the keyboardRussian ruble symbol codes
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Description of the approval process
From November 5 to December 5, 2013, the Bank of Russia conducted an anonymous poll on its website: Internet users who declared that they were 18 years old could choose one of five characters, vote against all and comment on their choice with five hundred characters, including spaces. According to the results of the survey, almost 280 thousand clicks were recorded, which were distributed as follows:Ruble symbol on coins and stamps
Such coins were put into circulation on June 17, 2014: commemorative silver coins with a face value of 3 rubles, as well as nickel-plated steel coins with a face value of 1 ruble. Silver coins are issued in a limited edition: 500 pieces in proof quality, 1000 pieces in uncirculated quality. Coins with a denomination of 1 ruble are issued as part of an emission program with a circulation of 100 million pieces. Description of the coin on this
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Many of the major world currencies listed on foreign exchange market, have their own character (ligature) used for shorthand. The US dollar has it - it's the well-known "$", the Japanese yen - "¥", the oldest pound sterling - "£" and even the youngest currency - the euro also has its own short designation - "€", which she acquired in as a result of the painful elections and anguish that ended in December 1996.
But one of the most stable currencies in the world - the Swiss franc still does not have its own ligature, and the Chinese yuan acted not entirely correctly, assigning itself the designation of the Japanese yen - it turns out that this happens.
In Russia, the idea of creating its own currency designation has been in the air for a long time, but it was not until early December 2013 that a new ruble sign was finally chosen.
Attempts to start developing a short designation of the Russian currency were made back in 1997, after the denomination. Several variants associated with the Latin letter "R" were developed, but a default came and the matter stopped. In 1997, the competition was held by the Financier magazine, the result was 300 spellings, but none of them was approved.
The second similar competition was held in 1999 by the Dengi magazine, after which 2 more competitions followed - from the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, held in 2005-2006, and from RIA Novosti.
The now winning symbol was developed in 2007 by an initiative group created by the famous designer Erken Kagarov, which included Designet, DesignDepo, Imadesign and other companies.
When choosing the most interesting and suitable options, the compliance of the ligature with the following requirements was taken into account:
This is only a part of the objective requirements - there are also subjective ones, such as the speed and ease of identification, the harmonious perception of the logo in a number of symbols of other currencies, the absence of negative, ambiguous or dubious associations, and others.
Many people ask: " Why do we need this logo for our currency?". After all, we lived without him for almost five centuries - since the time of the ruble reform of Elena Glinskaya, the famous mother of Ivan the Terrible.
According to the Central Bank, in other leading countries of the world, currency symbols began to appear with the involvement of national currencies in international circulation. So the symbols that appeared received recognition on the world stage. So the presence of its own sign will contribute to the recognition of the Russian currency throughout the world, its recognition.
E. Nabiullina believes that the graphic image emphasizes the stability of the ruble.
According to Nikolai Zhuravlev, "the sign of the national currency, its presence is an international practice, now the Russian ruble has ceased to be an exception to the rule in this sense." He also answered the question of what gives the country the presence of a currency logo: "the official approval of the symbol of the Russian currency will increase its authority in the world market and become the basis for the unification of the graphic designation."
According to Alexander Troshin, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council, the appearance of a currency designation on keyboard layouts will help promote the logo around the world.
The sign or symbol of the ruble arose as a result of the evolution of writing in Russia. The abbreviation of the word "ruble" was used in writing for a century, from the second half of the 17th to the second half of the 19th century, representing a ligature used for writing speed - a combination and interaction of the superscript letters "p" and "y". Over time, the ligature lost its original meaning, turning by the end of the 18th century into a completely independent symbol, along with modern letters.
Currently, unofficial symbols of the ruble are available in two spellings: lowercase "r" with a dot and, as an option, "Lebedev-Tarbeev sign" (sign "P" with a crossed out leg).
The Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation" (86-FZ of July 10, 2002) establishes that the decision to approve the graphic designation of the ruble in the form of a symbol is taken by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. As of August 1, 2011, the state symbol of the ruble was not approved by the bank.
1. The first recorded example of the use of the sign
One of the first dated examples when the ruble sign began to be used is in the Collection of Translations from Epiphanius Slavinetsky, where it is found in the inscription on the margins of the book. Such a record testified to the possession, purchase or sale of the book and said that on December 5, 1681, Belakhonian Vasily Tveritinov sold this book to the city dweller Mikhail Terentyev for 12 rubles 100 altyn 2 money.
2. The latest example of writing a sign
The latest of all known examples of writing the ruble sign was in the first half of the 19th century in the Sudebnik of the sovereign and Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich. The entry made by Academician Pavel Stroev reads: “4 rubles, December 18, 1830” One of the first collectors of ancient Russian writings made an inscription on a book from his personal library.
3. Inventory of money seized from the Decembrist Raevsky
There are examples of the use of the ruble symbol not only in business and personal correspondence, but also in official documents. One such example is the inventory of things and money that were confiscated during the arrest from the Decembrist Raevsky.
4. Activity in the use of the ruble sign
Thanks to scientific and historical documents, we can conclude that by the beginning of the 19th century, the ruble sign was actively used by representatives of different classes Russian Empire: judicial and army scribes (philistines), university professors (raznochintsy), booksellers (merchants), nobles.
Taking into account that cursive writing originates already in the 14th century, and the writing of the 16th century already widely uses the horizontal superscript “r” (both independently and in combination with the letter “y”), further study of the primary sources of Slavic writing significantly expands the temporal boundaries of the use of the sign.
There was an experience of using the symbol of the ruble in the press - in particular, Magnitsky's "Arithmetic" (1703) contained such a sign. But this has not been widely adopted.
The classical version, which Ekaterina Vorobyova adheres to in her works, says that in the letter combination "ru" - the basis of the independent symbol of the ruble, the letter "r" ("rtsy") is turned counterclockwise by 90 degrees, and the letter "y" ("uk ”) is inscribed over it. Ivan Sinchuk takes a different point of view. He believes that the letter "r" is rotated counterclockwise by 90 degrees, and the letter "y" written on top of it is rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
Primary sources confirm both versions: the style of the sign is very dependent on the features of the handwriting and spelling options are found from the usual cross to the reproduction of one of the described options.
In the 17th century, the ligature "ru" was written above the numbers. At the same time, the numbers were then written using Cyrillic letters, a title was simply written above them. When denoting monetary amounts, the title was replaced by the cursive ligature "ru".
Already at the beginning of the 18th century, Cyrillic letters-numbers were replaced with Arabic numerals, and the title was no longer used. At the same time, the “ru” ligature gradually shifts to the right and down in relation to the numbers, while losing its original meaning as a letter combination and turning into a full-fledged symbol.
In the 19th century, the ligature "ru", which became a sign, was reduced in size and written to the right of the numbers slightly above the main line, using a superscript in relation to the line. In Russian, when writing by hand, such an index of numbers is often underlined with dashes (1st, 2nd). But when writing sums of money, the horizontal letter "r" replaces these dashes.
The only attempt to scientifically systematize and streamline the variants of writing the ruble sign was made by Ivan Sinchuk in his work “The Many Faces of the Ruble Sign”.
Only once did Vladimir Yefimov try to link the historical symbol of the ruble to the main modern fonts from a professional point of view in 1998.
And only twice did journalists and artists try to create a modern logo based on the sign of the ruble of the 17th-19th centuries. First in the magazine "Everything is clear" in 2005, then in the magazine "Idea X" in 2009.
The option of writing the ruble symbol in one stroke was proposed by Yuri Kalashnov in 1999.
Gradual integration Russian economy into the world and widespread use in the internal circulation of the country foreign currencies(of course, first of all, the dollar, which has its own sign, recognizable by everyone) proposals to introduce a sign denoting the Russian currency have been repeatedly expressed. The appearance of the euro and the approval of its sign, such proposals increased, which led to several competitions at an unofficial level, initiatives and actions to introduce the symbol of the ruble.
The first well-known competition, held by the Financier magazine in 1997, attracted about 300 entries. The author of the idea was Andrey Eremenko.
The second was in 1999 - 2000 the action "Sign of the ruble", which was held jointly by the Club of graphic designers "Portfolio" (ideological co-authorship of Yuri Kalashnov and Petr Bankov) and the magazine "Money". It featured about 1,000 versions of the ruble symbol from 300 authors. During this action, for the first time in modern history, evidence of the existence of the ruble sign in the 17th-19th centuries was found. At the same time, about 1,000 people were interviewed, who were asked the question "Do I need a symbol similar to the signs of the dollar, pound sterling, euro and other currencies, the Russian ruble?" More than 85% of the respondents were positive.
The third was the "Draw the symbol of the ruble!" competition, which was held in 2005-2006 by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, and which became the most massive in terms of the number of applications submitted: more than 5,000 sketches were received.
The fourth contest called "Think up a ruble sign" was held in 2006 by RIA Novosti. About 300 proposals were submitted to the organizers, the best of which were submitted to the State Duma and central bank Russia.
There were a huge number of individual initiatives expressed in letters directly to government bodies (the State Duma and the Central Bank of Russia) and even an image of the ruble sign was registered in the Russian Authors' Society.
In addition, VTsIOM conducted a public opinion survey published on May 25, 2006 in the Izvestia newspaper, which recognized the signs designed by Vladimir Efimov (Latin “R” with a double stem) and Tagir Safaev (Latin “R” with horizontal lines at the top of the stem) as suitable. ).
And only in 2006, the problem of introducing the symbol of the ruble was raised at the state level: in June, an amendment to the Law “On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation” was adopted, which supplemented the functions of the Bank with another one: the approval of the graphic designation of the sign by the Bank of Russia.
To date, certain work has been done by the experts of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. In particular, on March 14, 2007, the working group of the bank approved the requirements for the sign of the ruble.
The author of this sign is the artist Alexander Tarbeev, and the main popularizer is Artemy Lebedev, therefore this version of the ruble symbol is sometimes called the “Lebedev-Tarbeev sign”. The initiators of the action, without waiting for the approval of the sign at the official level, began to use this symbol in the development of new fonts.
The official decision of the Bank of Russia as of August 1, 2011 has not yet been announced. And there is no information about this on the website of the Central Bank of Russia.
In fact, at present, two variants of the ruble symbols are more actively used.
First of all, the lowercase letter “p” with a dot, which appears “by default”, for example, in the settings for the output formats of financial values in the Russian versions of Excel spreadsheets from Microsoft, as well as Google spreadsheets. A variation of this symbol is the capital letter "P" with a dot, considered as a candidate for approval by the Central Bank of Russia. The abbreviation "r." has been used to denote the ruble since at least the 19th century.
The "Lebedev-Tarbeev sign" is used less actively. A variation of this sign is the first monument to the ruble, which was installed in Dimitrovgrad. The authors proposed as a symbol of "the unity of the state and its monetary unit» two capital letters “R” combined with each other (“Russia” and “Ruble”).
It turned out "R" with a crossed out leg.
Difference from the characters of the letter accepted in the main systems of a font, first of all in Latin and Cyrillic;
Simplicity of graphics;
Understandability at the level of intuition to any representative of the Russian-speaking culture. First of all, the sign is introduced into internal circulation, which means that its correct perception by Russians is more important than by foreigners;
The convenience of writing a sign by hand. In addition, the most reliable and fastest memorization is motor;
Monosyllabic. A sign from one grapheme takes up less space and is faster to read. A one-component sign is easier to introduce into a table set, which is very important in this case;
Font independence. A symbol is introduced into use, not a character of a particular font. Such a sign can be stylized as any existing or future font by introducing a ruble sign into it;
Uniformity in density. Areas that are not overloaded with too small strokes become of great importance in a small-point set. The character must be clearly legible in the fourth font size;
The width of the sign should be no more than the widest digit - zero.
Understandability of the sign to a foreigner familiar with the Latin spelling of symbols;
The presence of unusualness within the normal range, which contributes to memorization and recognition.
However, sometimes other options are publicly used. So, sometimes the abbreviation "ruble" is considered as a symbol of the ruble, which can be written both in the form of a ligature, and with a separate drawing of letters.
Symbol (sign) of the ruble- the abbreviation of the word “ruble”, which 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 19th century and was a ligature, a combination of superscripted letters “r” and “y”, natural for cursive writing. Over time, this ligature lost its original meaning and by the end of the 18th century turned into 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 outline are used as unofficial symbols of the ruble: the lowercase letter “r” with a dot (“r.”), as well as the so-called “Lebedev-Tarbeev sign” (the letter “R” with a crossed out leg).
In accordance with paragraph 2.1 of Art. 4 of the Law "On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)" (86-FZ of 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.
One of the first accurately dated examples of the use of the ruble sign is contained in the Collection of Translations of Epiphanius Slavinetsky. 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: “On the 5th day of December 1681, Vasily Ivanov, the son of Tveritin, from Belakhon, sold this book, which speaks heaven, to Terentiev, the son of Mikhnik, from the town. And I took, Vasily, for that book 12 rubles 100 altyn 2 money. And I signed, Vasily, with my own hand. I sold it cleanly and for sure 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 entry on the flyleaf of the Sudebnik of the Tsar and Grand Duke Ivan Vasilievich, which reads: "4 rubles, December 18. 1830". The entry was made by academician Pavel Stroev, 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 the arrest (GA RF, f. 48).
From a letter from Ivan Sinchuk to the editors of the magazine "Money" dated 11/11/1999
Historical documents allow us to conclude that by the beginning of the 19th century, the ruble symbol was familiar and actively used by representatives of many classes of the Russian Empire: army and court scribes (philistines), booksellers (merchants), university professors (raznochintsy), noblemen. Known, for example, is 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 Mikhail Kachenovsky, a professor at Moscow University, to Vasily Zhukovsky, in which financial issues related to the publication of the journal Vestnik Evropy are discussed. The first letter is dated January 3, 1812, the second - February 23, 1814. The sign is also found in a letter from Kachenovsky to Perevoshchikov, a professor at Kazan University, which refers to sending books for sale. The letter is dated September 18, 1817. From a letter from Yuri Evdoshenko to the editors of the magazine "Money"
The end of the use of the ruble sign dates back to the middle of the 19th century.
Since the sign is found both in letters, and in reports, and in inventories, we can conclude 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 sale at auction of things belonging to unknown persons, and criminals Yushevsky and Shchepin-Rostovsky due to inconvenience to correspondence” (No. 297), the case “At the request of arrested persons about the release of their own money for the purchase of tobacco and other needs ”(No. 298),“ The case of state claims opened against former regimental commanders and other officers involved in the case of a secret society ”(No. 300) ... But in documents of a later period, the "rule sign" is no longer found. In any case, I did not find it in other documents randomly ordered from the State Archives of the Russian Federation dating back 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 St. Petersburg and Moscow commissions, at the request of Count M. N. Muravyov and about their expenses "and in case No. 6" Accounts of Dostoevsky M. M. and E., 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 sign of the ruble in printing - in particular, in Magnitsky's "Arithmetic" (1703), but this experience was not widely used.
The act of converting copper into coins (XVIII century)
According to the classical version, which Ekaterina Vorobyova adheres to in her works, in the letter combination "ru", which became the basis of the independent sign of the ruble, the letter "r" ("rtsy") is rotated 90 ° counterclockwise, and the letter "u" ("uk" ) is written over it. Another point of view is held by Ivan Sinchuk, who believes that the letter "r" is rotated 90 ° counterclockwise, and the letter "u" written on top of it is rotated 90 ° clockwise. Both versions are confirmed in the primary sources: the specific outlines of the sign are highly dependent on the characteristics of the handwriting and vary 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 common 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 occurs several times in the Definition of the reorganization of the Academic University, compiled by Mikhail Lomonosov and recorded by the scribe on February 14, 1760, and is used as the ending of ordinal numbers in the dative case: “1st professor of general rights, 2nd of Russian rights, 3rd of history and politics". Like the ruble symbol, the mu ligature, 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 above the numbers in accordance with the rules of cursive writing. At the same time, the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet were used as numbers, over which the title was written. In the case of sums of money, the title was replaced by the cursive ligature "ru".
At the beginning of the 18th century, Cyrillic letters-numbers are replaced by Arabic numerals, and the need to use the title disappears. From this moment on, the “ru” ligature begins to shift in relation to the numbers to the right and down, while 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" significantly decreases in size and is written to the right of the numbers above the main line - the way ordinal numbers are now written using numbers in English, that is, using a superscript, or superscript (1 st , 2nd, etc.). In Russian, when handwritten, such an index is usually underlined with one or two lines (1 th , 2 th etc.). But in the case of sums of money, the horizontal "r" often replaces such dashes.
Thus, by first replacing the title and then single or double underlining, the horizontal "r" in the ligature-sign "ru" was greatly simplified to a straight or wavy horizontal line. As a result, the classic cursive ligature in the form of a horizontal “p” and a vertical “y” written over it began to look like a shortened letter “y” crossed out below the middle.
The only attempt to scientifically systematize the variants of the ruble sign on a very limited material (documents of 1820-1830 from the National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno) was made by Ivan Sinchuk in his work “The Many Faces of the Ruble Sign”.
The only professional attempt to link the historical sign of the ruble 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 Vsyo Yasno magazine (it was repeated in 2009 in the Idea X magazine).
The option of writing the sign in one stroke in 1999 was proposed by Yuri Kalashnov.
A comparative analysis of documents of the 18th century and documents of the 19th century suggests (so far this is just an assumption that requires additional study) that other denominations of Russian money also had their own symbols, in particular, the kopeck, money and altyn.
Having originated as superscript letter combinations typical of cursive (“de” - money; “ko” - a penny) or simply 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 rule. So "money" should already be abbreviated as "den." or "d.", and a penny - like "cop." or to.". But like the symbol of the ruble, they only shifted to the right and slightly down in relation to the number, supplemented by a single or double underscore (a penny - to, money - de, altyn - a).
The end of the use of these symbols, as well as the ruble symbol, dates back to the middle of the 19th century.
| Period | Ruble | Hryvnia | Altyn | Money | penny |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cursive XVII-XVIII centuries. | no pic. | no pic. | |||
| Cursive I half of the XIX century. | no pic. | no pic. | |||
| Arithmetic of Magnitsky (1703) | no pic. | ||||
| Modern styles | No | No | No |
| Ruble symbol | penny symbol |
|---|---|
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The ligatures are based on the work of Ivan Sinchuk "The many-sided sign of the ruble", prepared on the basis of documents from the 1820-1830s from the National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno.
With the beginning of the integration of the Russian economy into the world economy (90s of the XX century) and the widespread use of foreign currencies in the internal Russian circulation (primarily the dollar, which has its own recognizable sign), proposals were 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 ones is a competition, which was held in 1997 by the Financier magazine and which received about 300 works (the author of the idea is Andrey Eremenko).
Finalists of the action "Sign of the ruble"
The second time was the action "Sign of the ruble", which in 1999-2000. held the magazine "Money" and the Club of graphic designers "Portfolio" (authors of the idea - Yuri Kalashnov and Pyotr Bankov). It was attended by 300 authors who proposed a total of about 1000 variants of the ruble sign. An important feature of this action was that during it, for the first time in modern history, evidence of the existence of the ruble sign of the 17th-19th centuries was found. At the same time, about 1,000 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. When asked whether contemporaries are ready to consider the combination of the superscript letters "p" and "y" as a sign of the ruble now, the following result was obtained: 73% - "for", 23% - "against".
The third was the contest "Draw the symbol of the ruble!", Conducted by the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in 2005-2006. The competition became the most massive in terms of the number of applications submitted: the editors received more than 5,000 sketches.
The fourth contest is "Think up a ruble sign", held by RIA Novosti in 2006. The organizers received about 300 proposals, and the best ones were submitted to the Central Bank and the State Duma.
It is also necessary to note the huge number of individual initiatives, which were expressed in direct letters to various state authorities (primarily the State Duma and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation) and even the 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 Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) and the Izvestia newspaper deserves attention. On May 25, the newspaper published 13 signs, which were previously selected by experts interviewed by Izvestia. VTsIOM presented them to Muscovites at four focus groups and found out that 4 signs left Muscovites indifferent, 3 were considered unsuitable, 4 - "ambivalent". Only two signs aroused interest among the respondents. These are the projects of Tagir Safaev (Latin "R" with two horizontal lines at the top of the vertical leg) and Vladimir Efimov (Latin "R" with a double diagonal leg). The results of the study were presented on June 14 at the round table “What should the sign of the ruble be like?”.
Later, the working group of the Bank of Russia on the approval of the ruble symbol held several more meetings, however, official press releases were not issued on the results of its work, so the topic easily became the object of various speculations. Here is just one typical example:
As reported news agency Jeans, a source who took part in the work of the Central Bank commission, the new ruble sign will be officially approved after some time, but the final decision on how it will look has already been made. The new ruble sign will look like this: P. That is, it will be a capital Russian letter "R" with a dot. The sign is placed 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 clear to any Russian;
- Russian "R" can be written in the absence of a Cyrillic font, replacing it with a similar-looking Latin letter "P";
- everyone will be able to use this sign immediately after approval - there will be no need to enter it in international standards some additional symbol, wait a long time until it appears on the keyboards and spend huge amounts of money on the introduction of this sign.
It is also believed that the Central Bank considers the abbreviation "RR" as a symbol of the ruble, which is one of the instruments for protecting Russian paper money from a fake and is visible on the strip under the picture 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 action "Sign of the Ruble" 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.
In the middle of 2007, design studios Design Depot, Designet, Direct Design, Imadesign, Letterhead, ParaType and Artemy Lebedev Studio proposed using the letter “P” with a leg crossed out below the semicircle as a sign of the ruble .
To select the Ruble Sign symbol, we used objective criteria that are important for its effective use:
- Simplicity of graphics;
- Difference from other characters of the letter accepted in the main font systems, first of all 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-component. A sign consisting of one grapheme is read faster and usually takes up less space. A one-part, non-ligature sign is easier to integrate into a tabular set, which is extremely important in this case;
- Font independence. A symbol, a grapheme, and not a sign of a particular font, is introduced into use. 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 zones overloaded with strokes, too small, optional strokes. These parameters are of decisive importance in a small pin set. The sign must not float in the fourth size of the text font;
- The width is no greater than zero (the widest digit). An important parameter: in typeset fonts, the widths of currency symbols must match the widths of figures to simplify the table set;
- Comprehensibility to a foreigner familiar with the Latin alphabet;
- The presence of slight unusualness within the normal range, conducive to memorization and recognition.
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As is known from various sources, in the recent 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, are actively replacing the usual "Rub", "RUB" and "r." to the new sign of the ruble. But there is one problem- not every computer has this symbol, and instead of the ruble symbol, we observe the following:
And this is the picture that most of your clients may have. And this needs to be corrected as soon as possible, because without the presence of the corresponding currency sign, we mislead your customers and, thereby, lose precious customers.
Today I'm going to show you how you can use the standard letter "P" and CSS to get a ruble icon that will display correctly on all devices, 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; )
Save and see what we got:
In my opinion - very good. Optionally, you can change the size of the horizontal strip, its color and position relative to the letter "P".
