Cifrão sign - double barred dollar sign

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• [X] The requested variant shape does not go too far away from Iosevka's design.
• [X] The requested variant does not conflict with any characters in Unicode that Iosevka currently supports.
• [ ] For each variant you requested, there are at least two monospace/programming fonts created by different designers supported the requested variant. Provide images below.

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Please provide your justification here.

The cifrão was unfortunately not accepted as a separate character in Unicode, instead it was treated as a variant of the dollar sign;

It still has both a historical and cultural value for Portuguese speaking countries, and it’s the official symbol for the currency of Cape Verde;

It would be nice to be able to use it with Iosevka, maybe as a contextual variant tied to pt-* locales?

I can’t provide monospaced font examples, but I can show you how it used to look on typewriters, before keyboards from English speaking countries took over, and only the one barred dollar sign was available:

This is from a Brazillian Olivetti Lettera 82:

This is from a Portuguese Messa 2000 S:

Brazilian Sears Malibu:

Portuguese HCESAR:

As you can see, the S was a little wider, most likely to avoid ink smudge, but the Wikipedia svg image, based on Gentium, is just a regular S with the double bar;

[aricaldeira]

I tried something I hadn’t tried before: composing the cifrão with S + U+20E6:

A tiny bit unbalanced, but the thickness of the lines are right;

It just wouldn’t have the same stylistic options as the regular dollar sign, like the one shown here: slanted bars, smaller S etc.

Also, maybe this has something to do with the font hinting in LibreOffice, but the composed characters look a little blurred, compared to the regular dollar sign;