The New Rupee Symbol Unveiled to the World

The Indian Finance Ministry unveiled its choice for the new Rupee symbol today--and it's an amalgam of both eastern and western letters, using the Devanagari "Ra" and Roman capital "R."

India's currency has been strangely bereft of an official
symbol to use when denoting it in text. Googling for "rupee symbol" returns a barrage of different results, revealing the typographic disarray that existed--until now.

The new symbol is the creation of Indian Institute of Technology assistant...