Aligning money

I’ve been drawing big dollar signs lately and I’ve found a little alignment trick that I feel makes a list of currency values look better. Path-to-completion is always on my mind when building a web form and when I was tasked to design a list of payment plans, something wasn’t sitting right with the dollar signs I placed on the page. I threw in a little negative margin-left to the dollar amount, bringing the dollar sign’s vertical stroke inline with the gutter and the result is clean and crisp.  
 
Vertical stroke aligned with margin

Vertical stroke aligned with margin

 
Aligning dollar signs

Aligning dollar signs