Add the Saudi riyal sign to a font you already use

Why you’d do this

The Saudi riyal sign has been a real Unicode character, U+20C1, since September 2025. The UAE dirham sign (U+20C3) and the Omani rial sign (U+20C4) followed in Unicode 18 in September 2026. A character in Unicode is only half the job, though: a sign appears on screen only when the font in use has a drawing for it. Almost every font installed on phones and computers today was made before these signs existed, so typing or pasting one shows an empty box, or a sign borrowed from some other font that does not match the text around it.

That matters on price lists, invoices, menus, shop pages and brand material, where the currency sign sits right beside the numbers. You have three ways out: wait for every font you use to be updated, add the signs to your own font, or, on a website, place a small font with only the signs next to your existing one. This guide covers the last two, and shows how to check a font first.

How, with the named tool

Font inspector tells you what a font already contains. Add currency signs to a font adds the missing signs and gives you an edited copy. Both read the font in your browser, and the file is never uploaded.

1. Check the font first. Open Font inspector and tap Choose a font file. It reads .ttf, .otf, .woff and .woff2 files. Under New currency signs, each of the three signs is marked In the font or Missing, and a preview draws them in the font itself. The Licence section shows the licence text the font carries about itself.
2. Open the editor. If a sign is missing, tap Add the missing signs, or open Add currency signs to a font directly. You can pick one font, or several styles of one family (Regular, Bold, Italic…) and edit them together.
3. Choose the signs. Under Signs to add, tick the ones you want. If the font already draws one, its own drawing is kept unless you turn on Replace it with ours, which asks you to confirm first.
4. Check the weight and size. Weight set to Auto measures your font’s stems and matches the sign to them. Manual lets you pick a weight from 300 (light) to 700 (bold). Under Fine-tune you can move the Size, Baseline and Side position, and the Preview redraws in the edited font as you go. You can also upload your own drawing as an SVG under Use your own drawing.
5. Confirm the licence and name it. Tick I have the right to modify this font and enter a New family name. The edited font is listed under that new name, so it never collides with the original.
6. Download. Tap Add signs. Before anything downloads, your browser’s own font validator checks the result. You get the same format you gave it (a WOFF2 stays WOFF2), with a TTF instead option, and Download all (.zip) for a family.

For a website there is a shorter path. Further down the page, Skip editing: the Dzzz Currency Symbols font offers a small font with only these three signs, free under the SIL Open Font License, in Light, Regular, Bold and a variable version. Copy the @font-face snippet, host the .woff2 file on your own site, and put the font first in your font-family list. It is limited to the three signs, so your own font keeps drawing everything else, and a browser downloads it only on a page that shows one of them.

What to watch for

The licence decides, not the tool. Many fonts allow editing, and the OFL fonts common on the web do. Others forbid it, including many fonts that came with an operating system or a design app. The tool shows what the file says about itself, but that is not legal advice. Ticking the box is your own statement that you are allowed to modify the font. The new family name is required partly because licences such as the OFL forbid a modified font from keeping its reserved original name.

The signs are our drawings, not the designer’s. They are scaled to your font’s figures and matched to its stroke weight as closely as possible, but they will not share every detail of its design. If the font’s designer later releases an update with the official signs, prefer that.

Some fonts need a larger download. Plain TrueType fonts are edited right away. Fonts with PostScript (CFF) outlines, which are many .otf files, and variable fonts need an optional one-time download of the full font engine, about 8 MB, served from this site and kept on your device. On a variable font the signs follow the weight axis. The iOS and Android apps don’t include this engine, so those fonts need the website.

Wide signs take their room. Each sign is at least as wide as the font’s digits, so a narrow sign lines up in price columns. A wider sign, such as the Omani rial, takes the space it needs rather than overlapping the next character.

Collections and size limits. Font collections (.ttc) are not supported, and the tool reads fonts up to 30 MB.

FAQ

Will other people see the sign in my documents?

Only where your edited font travels with the content. A PDF that embeds the font shows the sign everywhere. A Word or Pages file shows it only on devices that have the font installed. In a chat message or an email, the recipient’s own font decides, so the sign may still appear as a box there.

How do I type the sign?

Most keyboards don’t have a key for it yet. The tool has Copy ⃁, Copy ⃃ and Copy ⃄ buttons. A pasted sign shows only where the font in use has it.

Is my font uploaded?

No. Both tools read and edit the font in your browser. The only download is the optional full engine, which comes from this site and never sends your font anywhere.