stixfonts
Toward this purpose, the STIX fonts will be made available, under royalty-free license, to anyone, including publishers, software developers, scientists, students, and the general public.
By making the fonts freely available, the STIX project hopes to encourage the development of applications that make use of these fonts.
The STIX Fonts project is an activity of the STI Pub companies.
Related sites
- GitHub project page
- American Mathematical Society STIX project page
- Unicode™Standard site
- World Wide Web Consortium MathML Standard site
STIX fonts are available for download at https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts and distributed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1
The license is available as a PDF file.
- The Fonts are based on the Unicode™ standard for character representation. By expressing all characters with their Unicode value, programs that you use will select the correct glyph for representation.
- The Font contents were assembled from a list of every character/glyph required for publication in the journals of the participating STI Pub companies. Every scientific discipline is represented in this list, as well as many other fields from the arts and humanities. Unicode charts for the STIX Two fonts are available here.
- All publishers are encouraged to download the STIX Fonts and consider using them in the publication process – both for print as well as online publication.
- The STIX Fonts have been designed to work with all web browsers, word processors and other scholarly communications software, as well as all general purpose software.
- Not all Unicode values are included in the STIX Fonts, but there is extensive coverage of Latin alphabets, Greek and Cyrillic.
- Most of the glyphs in the STIX Fonts have been designed in Times-compatible style. Times was first designed under Stanley Morison’s direction by Victor Lardent at The London Times in 1932. Many variations of this design have been produced since the original.
- In addition to Times-compatible glyphs, some portions of the STIX Fonts include other design styles such as sans-serif, monospace, Fraktur, Script, and calligraphic.
“…the STIX project has the potential to solve a problem that dates back to the 1400’s when Gutenberg first conceived of movable type.”
– The New York Times 11.7.2002
Project Timeline
Spring 1995
Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) Fonts project proposed by Arie de Ruiter of Elsevier
1995-1996
Each STI Pub company assembles list of all required characters/glyphs
1997
American Mathematical Society accepts invitation to join STI Pub group and sponsor submission to Unicode of mathematical symbols and alphabets
February 1998
MathML released as proposed recommendation; documentation refers to STIX Fonts as being needed for full rendering support
May 1998
STIX math characters proposal submitted to Unicode
June 1999
Revised STIX math proposal submitted to Unicode
September 1999
Unicode accepts mathematical alphabet proposal
November 1999
STI Pub companies issue RFP to create stixfonts
February 2000
Unicode accepts mathematical symbols proposal
June 2000
MicroPress selected as font designer for STIX Fonts Project
April 2001
First monthly delivery from MicroPress (Math Fraktur and Ux0100 range)
April 2002
Unicode 3.2 released, containing most proposed STIX symbols and alphabets
September 2002
MicroPress delivers glyphs (math ranges Ux2900 and Ux2A00) that mark half-way point in design project
August 2003
STIX Fonts alpha test released for testing by STI Pub companies and selected software vendors
October 2003
Unicode 4.0 issued, incorporating additional STIX Fonts characters
September 2004
Submission database created to track submissions
April-May 2005
Initial submission review completed; request for final 506 glyphs submitted to MicroPress. STIX Fonts TRC working group assigns tasks required for completion
July-August 2005
27th and 28th of planned 30 deliveries received from MicroPress
December 2005-January 2006
29th and 30th delivery received from MicroPress
March 2006
31st delivery received from MicroPress
July-August 2006
32nd (Final) delivery received from MicroPress. Build of OpenType beta test fontset begins
December 2006
Review of all submissions begins
June 2007
Design review completed
October-November 2007
Packaging for beta test completed
January 2008
Beta test of OpenType STIX Fonts ends
March 2008
Target for production release established
May 2010
STIX Fonts Version 1.0 released
October 2011
STIX Fonts Version 1.1.0-beta1 released
February 2012
STIX Fonts Version 1.1.0 released
February 2013
STIX Fonts Version 1.1.0-latex-beta released
May-June 2013
STIX Fonts Version 1.1.0-latex and STIX Fonts Version 1.1.1-word released
November 2013
STIX Fonts Version 1.1.1-webfonts released
December 2016
STIX Fonts Version 2.0.0 released
April 2018
STIX Fonts Version 2.0.0 Type 1 Postscript fonts released
April 2019
STIX Fonts Version 2.0.1 released!
December 2020
STIX Fonts Version 2.10 released!
July 2021
STIX Two added to Google Fonts!
STIX fonts are available for download at https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts. The current version consists of 5 OpenType font files:
- STIX2Math.otf
- STIX2Text-Regular.otf
- STIX2Text-Bold.otf
- STIX2Text-Italic.otf
- STIX2Text-BoldItalic.otf
Further licensing and release documentation is available at https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts/tree/master/docs
The process to install OpenType fonts depends on your operating system. Here are some pointers that may be helpful:
If you’re on a UNIX system, search the web for “install OpenType fonts” and the specific installation that you’re using.
For information on installing fonts in a TeX environment please visit: http://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html
Please direct any questions or general comments to the STIX Fonts project. Bug reports and technical support issues should be reported through here.
Please direct any questions or general comments to the STIX Fonts project.
Bug reports and technical issues should be reported through
http://github.com/stipub/stixfonts.