Bitstream Cyberbit
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Unicode
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font
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
designed by Bitstream Inc. It is freeware
Freeware
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for non-commercial uses. It was historically one of the first widely available fonts with support for a large proportion of the Unicode repertoire.
Cyberbit was developed by Bitstream to provide Unicode Consortium
Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Its stated goal is to eventually replace existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format schemes, claiming that many of the existing...
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.
The related Bitstream Cyberbase font includes a smaller number of characters than Cyberbit (1249 glyphs), 935 kerning pairs in v1.0 beta.
TITUS Cyberbit
TITUS Cyberbit Basic is a typeface derived from the Bitstream Cyberbit family, designed by Bitstream Inc.Bitstream Inc.
Bitstream Inc. is a type foundry that produces digital typefaces . Founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others, it claims to be the oldest such company...
and the TITUS
TITUS (project)
TITUS is a project of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, maintained by Professor Dr...
(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
Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
In digital typography, the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative is a project which aims to coordinate the encoding and display of special characters in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet, which are not encoded as part of Unicode....
.
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.
See also
- Bitstream VeraBitstream VeraVera is a group typeface with a liberal license.It was designed by Jim Lyles from Bitstream, and it is closely based on Bitstream's Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It is a TrueType font with full hinting instructions, which improve its rendering quality on low-resolution devices such...
- List of typefaces
- TITUS (project)TITUS (project)TITUS is a project of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, maintained by Professor Dr...
- Unicode typefacesUnicode typefacesA Unicode font is a computer font that contains a wide range of characters, letters, digits, glyphs, symbols, ideograms, logograms, etc., which are collectively mapped into the standard Universal Character Set, derived from many different languages and scripts from around the world...
External links
- Bitstream Cyberbit Download & Documentation from a NetscapeNetscapeNetscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...
FTP server - The remnants of Bitstream's Cyberbit support page
- TITUS Font description
- TITUS Cyberbit Font download (freeware, requires registration)