I cannot find this P:
My \mathbb{P} and \mathcal{P} are:
I have found similar questions related to finding specific symbol or some P, but none of them looks for this P or shows a way to look for your specific symbol.
3 Answers
You can try this:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
I\kern-0.15em P
\end{document}
If you want to use it in math mode several times, you may want to create a macro.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand{\probP}{\text{I\kern-0.15em P}}
\begin{document}
$\probP(A)=0.5$
\end{document}
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1+1. Your conjecture is also main guess as to how the character shown in the OP's screenshot was created. I might also play with
I\kern-.2emP.– MicoJun 20, 2021 at 18:56 -
1How does this work with text-selection and copying? Just curious... Jun 21, 2021 at 17:28
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Sorry, I don't understand your question. If you mean, copying from PDF file, I don't know, maybe you can try by yourself. But the point is to produce a specific character. See David Carlisle's comment on OP.– SebGlavJun 21, 2021 at 18:12
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I don't know if it's just a quirk of antialiasing, but the bulge where the serifs overlap is hideous at this scale– Chris HJun 22, 2021 at 8:25
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You're right, but it should not, since there's no bulge either on the I or on the P. Probably an issue of antialiasing, as you said. And well, it's just a cheat, not a real typeface.– SebGlavJun 22, 2021 at 10:26
You can try dsfont package and \mathds{P} command (mathmode)
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{dsfont}
\begin{document}
$\mathds{P}(A)=0.75$
\end{document}
This is s different \mathbb alphabet. I’m not sure which. The closest free one I’m aware of is the varbb alphabet of newpxmath.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[varbb]{newpxmath}
\begin{document}
\[ \mathbb{P} \]
\end{document}
The bb=pazo, bb=px and bb=mma options of mathalpha are also somewhat close, and easier to combine with a different set of math fonts. If you are using unicode-math, the \mathbb{P} of Asana Math is based on the one from Pazo.
\mathbb{P}when some font package is loaded. You can (a) look for a list of available fonts in latex and find your P there, or (b) ask the author for the source code in case this is a preprint/lecture note, look for the journal template in case this is a journal paper.I\!Phack we used to use in the 1980s before the AMS fonts were available. If you have that in a PDF and cut and paste the text do you get P or I P ?\mathbb{P}instead. I would consider\mathbb{P}and\text{I\kern-0.15em P}to be semantically the same letter with the former having the advantage of being “standard” and thus much easier to achieve.