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STIX Project Releases v1.0 of Its Scientific Fonts Set

May 28th, 2010 05:16 admin Leave a comment Go to comments

starseeker writes “The Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project has released version 1.0 of its font set. This release is the product of almost 15 years of work, with the goal of creating a comprehensive set of fonts for scientific and engineering manuscript creation. The fonts have been released under the SIL Open Font License, and can be downloaded here. Among the many potential applications is proper universal support for MathML in web browsers.” If you want a peek, here’s “a page for viewing the thousands of glyphs (as a first approximation, think of a glyph as an individual character).”

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