The ruble sign on the site: express method

Task

Without too much headache, start using the ruble sign on the site.

Idea

In freely distributed (including for use on the web) PT Sans and PT Serif fonts, there is a ruble sign among the characters. If you use these fonts on the site, then to solve the problem you can do without extra html-code, css-tambourines, vector graphics and other Jedi perversions.

Google to the rescue

Google has a kind of wonderful Web Fonts service that makes it very simple and legal to use fonts on web pages. There are not so many Cyrillic fonts, but we need PT Sans and PT Serif. At the same time, for each browser, Google gives its css code and the desired font file format.

This is done to disgrace simply:

1. We include the css file with the font we need:

2. We set the corresponding font-face for elements:

.price {
  font-family: 'PT Sans', serif;
  }

3. Insert the ruble sign as a special symbol:

999 ⃏

What's the catch?

For Internet Explorer, Google generates files out of harmfulness that lack some additional characters, including the ruble sign we need.

Therefore, there is nothing left but to go to Fontsquirrel and download the full @ font-face Kit of the font we need (you need to choose the set not Cyrillic Subset, but Don’t Subset - that is, containing all the characters).

Connecting a font with this method takes a little longer, but this is how we cover the entire browser zoo.

Demo

Morality

If the Google Fonts API exits the beta version (although we say “Google”, we mean “beta”) and begins to render full character sets for all browsers, this will be the most convenient way to use the ruble sign on the site. In the meantime, you can not do without a font font.

Lyric appendage

In the PT Sans and PT Serif fonts, the ruble sign is located under all characters with codes from ₹ to ⃏. The fact is that at the time the font was created, characters in the range 20B9-20CF were free. And since officially there is no ruble sign in Unicode, the authors placed the ruble sign in 22 “cells” at once.

However, in Unicode version 6.0, the place U + 20B9 was given to the official sign of the Indian rupee. Therefore, I recommend using the “farthest” code ⃏ for an unapproved mark.

The ruble symbol itself is already in many standard headsets. And even if you see ⃏, this does not mean that the font file of other users also contains such a sign.