Georgian Lari Currency Symbol

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Bhikkhu Pesala
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Georgian Lari Currency Symbol

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This currency symbol was added in the latest update to Unicode 8.0.

Georgian Lari
Georgian Lari Currency Symbol.png
Georgian Lari Currency Symbol.png (44.88 KiB) Viewed 16402 times
The design is not prescriptive, i.e. this is just a geometric form of how the symbol should look. You should design it to match the existing glyphs if adding it to your fonts.

I have added a definition to CompositeData.xml (attached) to compose a glyph based on Capital Letter O, underscore, and combining double vertical line above (with a fallback glyph of quotedbl). This is just an aid to design. After completing composites you will see something like this:
Georgian Lari Complete Composites.png
Georgian Lari Complete Composites.png (5.33 KiB) Viewed 16402 times
Make the glyph simple, and use the knife tool, then Get Union of Contours to create a symbol more like the recommended design.

Below is my first attempt for the Italic Types Style of Sukhumala.
Georgian Lari Italic.png
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