The Elusive Circle-P
Very few fonts contain the circle-P (℗) otherwise known as the Sound Recording Copyright symbol. One that does is Lucida Grande on every Macintosh, but it’s only available in applications that support the full Unicode character set, including QuarkXPress 7 or 8 (but not 6).
To access this glyph, use Quark’s built-in Glyphs Palette by choosing Window> Glyphs.
Another excellent cross-platform tool for finding, viewing and selecting characters is PopChar, from Ergonis:
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X,” from Peachpit Press
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The circle-P is also in the Webdings font.
And if you need lots more music and video publishing symbols, such as the logos for Compact Disc, DVD, Dolby, etc., check out Combi Symbols CD at MyFonts.com: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontsite/combi-symbols-cd/combi-symbols-cd/.
In case anyone wants more flexibility, I created a dedicated circle-p copyright symbol font containing the symbol in a variety of styles designed to match 26 common fonts.
It’s $5 buy-Jon-a-drink-ware from http://www.artisan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/studio/pfont.html
Thanks – Jon