Finding the "P circled" symbol

I'm working on album cover art for a demo disc. One of the

requirements is for "C circled" and "P circled" symbols. I have no

problem finding the ©, but none of my many fonts has a (p). I do

have an ®, however. Does anyone know of an online source (or any

other professional-looking) way to get (p)?

I always just create them in Photoshop and resize as needed.

Pete....

If you're using a PC use Alt 0169 for the "circle c", and Alt 0174 for the "circle r".

Pardon my ignorance, but what does the circled P mean? And no, I didn't see it on my fonts either.

 

I could make one in Paint or AutoCAD easily enough, don't suppose that helps. Just have to take the slanty line off the R.

circled P is for sound recordings - it indicates the copyright on the recording, as opposed to the copyright on the music itself. If I record my version of e.g. a Metallica song, the (P) is mine but the © is not.

More details on this are available at:

http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/expertcharacters/f/circled_p.htm

 

The "P" was originally meant to stand for "Produced" or, as some believe, "Performance".

The circle P symbol is one that's typically only built into really well designed

typefaces designed with an entire characterbase. Your everyday "font disk" typically

isn't going to include it. Circle P is used so rarely in a general sense that many people

don't know it exists. Some of the faces from high end type houses like Emigre, etc.

special characters like this included. For instance Emigre produces a face called "Mrs.

Eaves" that has a subset called "Fractions" which contains a lot of special symbols and

ligatures. The circle P symbol is located in that subset using the command Shift-P. A

quickly built typeface designed for setting headlines, by an average Joe typically won't

contain special characters like this. Basically, the simple solution is to create one

graphically as suggested in whatever software you're using. Good luck.

I don't know if this helps, but on the Mac these font collections include the sound

recording copyright symbol: Apple Symbols, Lucida Grande, Lucida Grande Bold.

In Windows XP/Word, I found the (p) in Luncida Sans Unicode.

 

Go to Insert>Symbol. In the Font menu, choose "Lucida Sans Unicode." In the Subset menu, choose "Letterlike Symbols." The ℗ is in the 3rd row. Insert it into your Word document and wah-lah!

<p>Hi all.<br>

In case anyone wants more flexibility, I created a dedicated circle-p copyright symbol font for mac and PC containing the symbol in a variety of styles designed to match 26 common typefaces. <br>

It's $5 buy-Jon-a-drink-ware from http://www.artisan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/studio/pfont.html <br>

Thanks - Jon</p>