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
(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package is obsolete, it is directly integrated in recent LaTeX versions, you can then drop the\usepackage{textcomp}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? ).That may seem like a lot to write out, so in your preamble you can put
and then you can write
in you document and get the proper symbol.