How to type the new Rupee Symbol on your Computer

This is the image of the new symbol of the Indian Rupee.

Users can’t type the Rupee symbol (like dollar symbol - $) using the standard keyboard as the unique code (ASCll) of the symbol hasn’t assigned by the Unicode Consortium. But here is one font – Rupee Font Version 2.0 which lets you type the Rupee symbol easily in Notepad, MS Word, WordPad etc. For this you need to download and install the font on your computer.

1. First download the Ruppe Foradian.tff file from here.

2. Go to your Control Panel and find Fonts folder. Copy and paste the downloaded file here.

3. And you are done, now start using it.

Now when ever you want to type the new Rupee symbol, just select the Rupee Foradian font from the Font window in your application (example:- MS Word, Notepad, WordPad) .

Press the grave acent symbol key (`), the key just above Tab button to enter the Rupee symbol.

Really easy and nice. Here is a video tutorial on how to install and use the Rupee symbol on Windows computer.