STIX Fonts project
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| Typeface | STIX |
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| Category | Various |
| Classifications | Transitional |
| Commissioned by | STIX Pub |
| Foundry | MicroPress and others |
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| Typeface | ESSTIX |
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| Category | Various |
| Classifications | Transitional |
| Commissioned by | Elsevier |
| Foundry | Elsevier |
The STIX Fonts project is a project sponsored by several leading scientific and technical publishers to provide, under royalty-free license, a comprehensive font set of mathematical symbols and alphabets, intended to serve the scientific and engineering community for electronic and print publication. The STIX fonts is available as fully hinted OpenType/CFF fonts. There is currently no plans by the STIX Pub to provide a TrueType version, with the note that software such as Java should instead add OpenType support.[1]
Among the glyphs in STIX, 32.9% have been contributed by the project members. The commercial TeX vendor and TeX font foundry MicroPress has been contracted to create the additional glyphs. The STIX project will also create a TeX implementation. Goals also include incorporating the characters into Unicode, and ensuring that browsers can use them.
Members of the STIX (Scientific and Technical Information Exchange) Fonts project, known collectively as the STI Pub consortium, include the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Mathematical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society, and Elsevier.
According to the web site
| “ | The Font contents were assembled from a list of every character/glyph required for publication in the journals of the participating STI Pub companies. Every scientific discipline is represented in this list, as well as many other fields from the arts and humanities.
Most of the glyphs in the STIX Fonts have been designed in Times-compatible style. In addition to Times-compatible glyphs, some portions of the STIX Fonts include other design styles such as sans serif, monospace, Fraktur, Script, and calligraphic. |
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A beta version of the fonts was released on October 31, 2007.
[edit] ESSTIX
A precursor to the STIX project is the ESSTIX (Elsevier Science STIX) font, developed and later donated by Elsevier. It is currently available from the World Wide Web Consortium as part of the Amaya web browser ([1]).
[edit] References
- ^ Analysis of Feedback Received from Testers: Missing Unicode/Glyph Feedback Received Regarding STIX Fonts
