[Tex/LaTex] Can you provide a link to a font or typeface containing a double bar dollar sign?

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Can anybody refer me to a font file or typeface that contains the proper US dollar sign?

A problem with most typefaces is that they contain a generic dollar sign, containing a single vertical bar. A US dollar sign contains two vertical bars. The commonly used alternatives are $us9.99 or us$8.88.

Explanation: The original US dollar sign was a monogram of US. It consisted of a sanserif capital S, with a narrow sanserif capital U centered on top of it. Later, the bottom of the U was removed.

Best Answer

You can often find the fonts you want by searching on detexify

Try

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\begin{document}
\textdollaroldstyle
\end{document}

(Remark : textcomp package is obsolete, it is directly integrated in recent LaTeX versions, you can then drop the \usepackage{textcomp} line. More informations here: Where is the documentation for the current textcomp package? ).

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That may seem like a lot to write out, so in your preamble you can put

\let\dollar\textdollaroldstyle

and then you can write

\dollar3.50

in you document and get the proper symbol.

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