How to get dollar sign ($) in LaTeX?

Some symbols or characters are known as escape characters, you can not print those characters directly in LaTeX. The dollar sign ($) is also an escape character.

You can print the dollar sign using \$, however, there are lots more packages that provide different styles of this symbol.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to print the $ sign with default command in LaTeX and also I will show you more packages and commands to get this symbol with a slightly different look.

All packages and commands to get $ in LaTeX

Package	Command	Output
None	\$	$
None	$\mathdollar$	$
textcomp	\textdollar	$
dsfont	$\mathds{S}$
marvosym	\EyesDollar

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ textcomp }
\usepackage{ dsfont }
\usepackage{ marvosym }
\begin{document} 

  \verb|100\$| $\rightarrow$ 100\$ \\[4pt]
  \verb|100\mathdollar| $\rightarrow\;100\mathdollar$\\[4pt]
  \verb|100\textdollar| $\rightarrow$ 100\textdollar\\[4pt]
  \verb|100\mathds{S}| $\rightarrow\;100\mathds{S}$\\[4pt]
  \verb|100\EyesDollar| $\rightarrow$ 100\EyesDollar

\end{document}

Output: