Bitstream Cyberbit

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Bitstream Cyberbit is a commercial Unicode font designed by Bitstream Inc. It is freeware for non-commercial uses. It was historically one of the first widely available fonts with support for non-ASCII characters.

Cyberbit was developed by Bitstream to provide Unicode Consortium members with a large Unicode-encoded font to use for testing and development purposes.

Bitstream no longer offers Cyberbit as a free download or as a retail product.

Bitstream Cyberbit font includes 32,910 characters (29,934 glyphs), 935 kerning pairs in v2.0 beta.

[edit] TITUS Cyberbit

TITUS Cyberbit Basic is a typeface derived from the Bitstream Cyberbit family, designed by Bitstream Inc. and the TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien) for Unicode 4.0, by the principal developers Jost Gippert, and Carl-Martin Bunz. It can be obtained for free from TITUS and is freeware for non-commercial uses.

TITUS Cyberbit Basic supports part of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative.

It includes 10,044 glyphs (9,341 Characters) in version 3.0 (2000) (revision 4.0) from the following Unicode blocks : Basic Latin (95), Latin-1 Supplement (96), Latin Extended-A (128), Latin Extended-B (183), IPA Extensions (96), Spacing Modifier Letters (80), Combining Diacritical Marks (106), Greek (128), Cyrillic (247), Cyrillic Supplement (16), Armenian (86), Hebrew (83), Arabic (185), Syriac (76), Thaana (50), Devanagari (106), Thai (87), Georgian (83), Ethiopic (364), Ogham (32), Runic (81), Phonetic Extensions (108), Latin Extended Additional (247), Greek Extended (236), General Punctuation (68), Superscripts and Subscripts (29), Currency Symbols (12), Letterlike Symbols (13), Number Forms (28), Arrows (21), Mathematical Operators (80), Miscellaneous Technical (8), Enclosed Alphanumerics (112), Box Drawing (112), Block Elements (10), Geometric Shapes (53), Miscellaneous Symbols (33), Glagolitic (94), Coptic (114), Georgian Supplement (38), CJK Symbols and Punctuation (31), Hiragana (90), Katakana (94), Bopomofo (37), Private Use Area (4,649), CJK Compatibility Ideographs (1), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (57), Arabic Presentation Forms-A (205), CJK Compatibility Forms (27), Small Form Variants (29), Arabic Presentation Forms-B (140), Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (157).

An extended version of this font is TITUS Cyberbit Unicode, includes 36,161 characters in v4.0. However, it is not available for download from TITUS website.