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''Bitstream Cyberbit'' is a commercial
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designed by
Bitstream Inc Bitstream Inc. was a type foundry that produced digital typefaces. It was founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others. It was located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The font business, including MyFonts, was acquired by Monotype ...
. It is freeware for non-commercial uses. It was one of the first widely available fonts to support a large portion 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. The font has 32,910 characters (29,934
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s) and 935 kerning pairs in v2.0 beta. The related ''Bitstream Cyberbase'' font includes a much smaller number of characters, with 1,249 glyphs and 935 kerning pairs in v1.0 beta. Bitstream no longer offers Cyberbit as a free download or as a retail product.


TITUS Cyberbit

''TITUS Cyberbit Basic'' is a typeface derived from the Bitstream Cyberbit family, designed by
Bitstream Inc. Bitstream Inc. was a type foundry that produced digital typefaces. It was founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others. It was located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The font business, including MyFonts, was acquired by Monotyp ...
and the TITUS project for Unicode 4.0. Jost Gippert and Carl-Martin Bunz were the principal developers. 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, and 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'', which includes 36,161 characters in v4.0.


See also

*
Bitstream Speedo Fonts Bitstream Speedo, or Speedo, is an obsolete scalable font format created by Bitstream Inc. Speedo was used on Atari ST, Falcon, in the XyWrite word processor, and in very early versions of WordPerfect and Microsoft Windows. Speedo was replaced by ...
* Bitstream Vera * List of typefaces * TITUS (project) * Unicode typefaces


External links

{{Commons category, Bitstream Cyberbit
Bitstream Cyberbit Download & Documentation
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Bitstream's Cyberbit support pageTITUS Cyberbit Font download
(freeware, requires registration)
TITUS Cyberbit Unicode download
Unicode typefaces