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Using a lowercase "p" as a question mark?

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After a long time sketching, testing, searching and starting from scratch repeatedly I have settled on what I feel to be a suitable logo for myself when doing freelance work (as a client I am a pain in the ass). The only problem is that I can’t seem to turn my lower-case “p” into a question mark without losing the awesome sci-fi retro curves of Magistral Extra Bold OT. The standard ? that is part of the character set is no help as it in turn looks nothing like a “p”.

Terrible attempts at conversion (and the original ?)

Any ideas? About anything I mean, I’m at the point now where I feel I might have “settled” for Magistral when something better is out there waiting!

Have you tried using the p but cutting out the back of the stem where it meets the bowl?

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