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>The dollar, too had one vertical bar. Nowadays it has two, in many fonts. That is not correct. There was not a transition from "two vertical bars" to "one ver
by userulluipeste 14y ago
>The dollar, too had one vertical bar. Nowadays it has two, in many fonts.
That is not correct. There was not a transition from "two vertical bars" to "one vertical bar" [1]. Please document yourself before posting.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Origin
- virtualritz 14y agoI do not know what you mean by "document". I studied typography and designed digital type, for a while, about 20 years ago. So I know a bit about the design side of things. And the design side is what my post is limited to. I am sorry if this was a tad ambiguous. I did not talk about the history. I talked about a typographical design trend that pertains to currency symbols. Also not that better typefaces sometimes have both versions on the $ sign. One and two strokes. The default is admittedly still the single bar one though. Expert discussion re. the one bar/two bar $ sign, that could be an interesting read: http://www.typophile.com/node/17976 http://www.typophile.com/node/17976