I’m wondering if anyone has any native perspective or practical insight regarding the Philippine piso currency symbol (₱).
The
Unicode nominal representation features a double strike, and that is
the most common form in fonts that I see. Occasionally, you find a
single strike.
The biggest challenge comes as weight increases.
Common strategies include using disproportionately thin strikes or
eliminating the segments that cross the counter above a certain
threshold. I don’t find either terribly convincing, personally. Using a
single strike presents fewer difficulties, obviously.
Does anyone have insight into native preferences regarding double- versus single-strike.
I
am unable to find many images of the symbol in use via internet search.
My go-to for examples of currency symbols in use are usually postage
stamps or restaurant menus. Nearly all Philippine examples I can find
use just a P abbreviation. Even documents from the Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines, the issuing agency) seem to
use only an abbreviation, not the symbol.
I managed to find one stamp that featured the symbol — a single-strike.
I would be grateful for any perspective that goes beyond mere speculation.
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Comments
Ah, what about this?
Even in the small shops and markets where price lists are written on bits of paper or on a small balckboard all three forms are common.
The banknotes aren't much help either they have the denomination in numbers and in words but the symbol never appears, like 100 and then 'Sandaang Piso'.
Sorry this isn't much help to you, but it does mean that whatever form you produce will be OK.
Bingo.
(Opportunity knocks.)
I asked my wife about this symbol (she's a Filippina) and she said it doesn't look like a Philippine Peso symbol, sorry.
It would be interesting to test such alternatives more deeply.
Does that work, or would a single stroke crossing the counter be preferable?
I think consistency is important in such symbols.
If I were forced to make a double-bar one, I would make the head of the "P" as large as possible; to me it doesn't have to match the actual "P".