Bitstream Cyberbit
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 a large proportion of the Unicode repertoire.
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.
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. 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. It can be downloaded from here
See also
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bitstream Cyberbit. |
- Bitstream Cyberbit Download & Documentation from a Netscape FTP server
- The remnants of Bitstream's Cyberbit support page
- TITUS Font description
- TITUS Cyberbit Font download (freeware, requires registration)
