Position of the registered sign

[James Kass]

On 2024-09-19 7:37 AM, Giacomo Catenazzi via Unicode wrote:
> Note: the use in logos and labels is different: it is part of design, 
> and outside Unicode scope. The interesting cases are about using 
> normal text and the registered mark.

Yes.  The RCA Victor label scan linked earlier shows the symbol in a 
line of text.  The response was that there was no need to superscript it 
in that case.  So the EMI label scan link was sent to illustrate that 
the symbol *looks* to be superscripted when it is used to annotate a 
logo.  Logos and layout are out of scope indeed.

For normal text, as far as I can tell, the default fonts installed with 
Windows 98 use the same metrics for both © and ® with the exception of 
Lucida Console.  Lucida Console does show the ® symbol superscripted and 
displays the copyright symbol normally.  The Haettenschweiler font shows 
both © and ® as superscripted.  So it seems likely that any Windows 
computer generated text from that era would show "®" at a normal size 
unless the Lucida Console or Haettenschweiler fonts were involved.