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The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats.

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.

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Mission Statement
The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. 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

  • Adobe Type and Type Technology Resources site
  • Microsoft Typography site
  • Adobe OpenType site

Licensing

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.

Fast Facts

  • 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

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How to install STIX fonts on your system

Step 1: Download

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

Step 2: Install the STIX fonts

The process to install OpenType fonts depends on your operating system. Here are some pointers that may be helpful:

• Windows
• Mac OS X

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

Questions?

Please direct any questions or general comments to the STIX Fonts project. Bug reports and technical support issues should be reported through here.

STI Pub Companies

STI Pub is a consortium of publishers of mathematical, scientific, and technical books and journals. These organizations have come together to promote their common interests in the area of scientific and technical publishing, including the development of pre-competitive publishing standards and technologies.

Questions? Comments?

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.

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