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Free STIX Fonts to be Released in September

Posted by timothy on from the not-styx dept.

tbspit writes "The STIX fonts project has announced that version 1.0 of the STIX fonts should be released in September 2005. The comprehensive font set is to include mathematical symbols and alphabets, and is intended to serve the scientific and engineering community for electronic and print publication. The STIX fonts should be available as fully hinted Type 1 and True Type fonts. The STIX project will also create a TeX implementation. Progress towards release can be monitored here."

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  1. How long does it usually take? by hritcu · · Score: 5, Interesting
    After nearly 10 years of development, the STIX Fonts project is almost complete.

    The community is in great need of such fonts. This open source online equation editor is just an example. We had to recommend the use of a shareware pan-unicode font (Code2000) because the only alternative is the proprietary Arial Unicode MS.

    Nevertheless, the time it took them to make STIX almost ready looks hilarious to me. Does anybody know how long does it usually take to design such a font?

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