The Central Bank of Russia approved the official sign of the ruble

    Today is a doubly significant date. Firstly, today is 12/11/13. Secondly, today the Central Bank of Russia has finally approved the official sign of the ruble . This story began back in 2006, when clause 2.1 appeared in article 4 of the law “ On the Central Bank of Russia ”, allowing the Central Bank to approve the official sign of the ruble:

    law

    A year later, in the summer of 2007, an initiative group of specialists was formed, which included Design Depot, Designet, Direct Design, Imaddesign, Letterhead, Paratype and Artemy Lebedev Studio. On August 1, 2007, this group presented to the public the sign of the ruble chosen by them during discussion and exchange of views:

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    Since that time, the sign has come into common use and is regularly used in advertising and other materials. From November 5, 2013 to December 5, 2013, the Central Bank held a public discussion on its website with voting for various options for the ruble sign. As a result of this vote and discussion, with a result of 61% of the votes in favor, the already-popular sign was adopted:

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    What are the consequences for us of this decision, given the fact that many have already used this sign? Firstly, it is now permissible to use this ruble sign anywhere, including in official documentation, including in various reports submitted to state bodies (Federal Tax Service, Pension Fund, etc.). Secondly, there is little hope that the official adoption of the ruble sign will accelerate its introduction into the ISO and Unicode tables, which means it will appear in fonts (for now, alternative ways have to be used for display ).

    According to the press service of the Central Bank of Russia .
    Ruble sign in .ai format.
    Hirez in .jpg format.
    Information booklet .
    Font file in OpenType format with ruble signs for the most common fonts .
    The same font file in the format eot , ttf , woff , svg .

    How to use on the site?



    Option one , the most reinforced concrete: picture (jsFiddle).
    HTML markup

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    Option Two : Inline Fonts (jsFiddle).
    HTML markup

    Знак рубля для шрифтов:
    Arial Regular: a
    Arial Italic: b
    Arial Bold: c
    Arial Bold Italic: d
    Georgia Regular: e
    Georgia Italic: f
    Georgia Bold: g
    Georgia Bold Italic: h
    Tahoma Regular: i
    Tahoma Bold: j
    Times Regular: k
    Times Italic: l
    Times Bold: m
    Times BoldItalic: n
    Lucida Sans: o
    Lucida Sans Bold: p
    Verdana Regular: q
    Verdana Italic: r
    Verdana Bold: s
    Verdana Bold Italic: t
    Futura: u
    Trump Mediaeval: v
    ITC Studio Script: w




    Option three : a character in SVG format (jsFiddle).
    HTML markup

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    The fourth option : use the "icon" font FontAwesome (starting with the 4th version) for Bootstrap.
    HTML markup
    FontAwesome fa-rub
    
    
    


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