FYI: guidelines for Omani rial sign

Peter Constable
Peter Constable Posts: 280
in Type Design Technique & Theory
The new Omani rial sign will be encoded in Unicode 18.0, which will be published a couple of months from now. The Central Bank of Oman had published guidelines for its usage, and has just posted updated guidelines that allow for a narrow aspect ratio glyph in fonts, suitable for tabular layout:

https://cbo.gov.om/Style Library/CBO/downloads/The Omani Rial Sign Guidelines.pdf
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  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,511
    In Latin settings with proportional figures too, I suspect designers will opt for a narrower design. 
  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,153
    edited 6:57PM
    After reading the guidelines, I am happy to see that they largely understand and adapt to typographic issues in ways that some previous currency symbol guidelines have failed to do. Perhaps a result of criticism of the earlier document? But good on them for dealing with that, rather than ignoring it.

    Yes, the spacing guidance is odd and unsustainable, bound to be cast aside by type designers. But the overall package is quite strong nevertheless.

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