How to type unicode character numero sign on macOS?

Laitonen wrote:

№ - numero sign

How to type it on macOS?

If you use the ABC Extended input source, it is on Option Shift ; №

Finnish extended has it on Option Shift s

If Finish and using Finish keyboard, it is solved.

Alternatively, one could set this up in System Preferences Keyboard text replacement without switching keyboards. 😉

Just an N followed by a degree sign (U+00B0) and combining macron below (U+0331).

Except that the Numero symbol in Emojis & Symbols is not the same appearance, as what you initially asked. The ring and bar are attached to the baseline, and not aligned with the capline of the N. If you are happy with the Emoji & Symbols version, than so am I.

Tom Gewecke and I have demonstrated how to create a Numero (N°̱) that matches your original example where the alignment is at the capline.

Just to add, if "№" is something you use often you can "Add to Favorites" while in the Character Viewer.

VikingOSX wrote:

Except that the Numero symbol in Emojis & Symbols is not the same appearance, as what you initially asked. The ring and bar are attached to the baseline, and not aligned with the capline of the N.

Interesting! There's more variation in the way fonts make this character than I would have imagined

I am thinking that the word “variable” may have been the first choice when they were thinking of a descriptive name for fonts, but it was already taken. 😉