XITS font project
Category | Various |
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Classification | Transitional |
Designer(s) | Khaled Hosny |
Date created | 2010 |
Date released | 2019 |
License | SIL Open Font License |
Design based on | STIX Fonts project |
Also known as | XITS Math |
Website | https://github.com/alif-type/xits |
Latest release version | 1.302 |
Latest release date | 2 July 2020 |
The XITS font project is an OpenType implementation of STIX fonts version 1.x with math support for mathematical and scientific publishing.[1] The main mission of the Times-like XITS typeface is to provide a version of STIX fonts enriched with the OpenType MATH extension.
Features[]
- OpenType mathematical layout features needed for use with new formula editor in MS Office 2007 and the new TeX engines XeTeX and LuaTeX, providing high quality mathematical typesetting.
- Right to left and Arabic mathematical notation support (since version 1.011[2]).
- General OpenType features in text fonts (Kerning, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Small Caps, and Inferior, Superior and Oldstyle Figures).
See also[]
- STIX Fonts project
- Unicode typefaces
- List of fonts
Other OpenType fonts with mathematical layout extensions:
- Asana Math
- Latin Modern Math
XITS is shipped with:
- TeX Live
References[]
- ^ First STIX and now XITS, project announcement on 4th of June 2010
- ^ Version 1.011 announcement
External links[]
Categories:
- Open-source typefaces
- Free software Unicode typefaces
- Greek typefaces
- Symbol typefaces
- Mathematical OpenType typefaces
- Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2010