XITS font project

The XITS font project is an OpenType implementation of STIX fonts version 1.x with math support for mathematical and scientific publishing.[1] The main mission of the Times-like XITS typeface is to provide a version of STIX fonts enriched with the OpenType MATH extension.

Specimen of XITS Math usage
XITS font project
CategoryVarious
ClassificationTransitional
Designer(s)Khaled Hosny
Date created2010
Date released2019
LicenseSIL Open Font License
Design based onSTIX Fonts project
Also known asXITS Math
Websitehttps://github.com/alif-type/xits
Latest release version1.302
Latest release date2 July 2020

Features
  • OpenType mathematical layout features needed for use with new formula editor in MS Office 2007 and the new TeX engines XeTeX and LuaTeX, providing high quality mathematical typesetting.
  • Right to left and Arabic mathematical notation support (since version 1.011[2]).
  • General OpenType features in text fonts (Kerning, Standard Ligatures, Fractions, Small Caps, and Inferior, Superior and Oldstyle Figures).

See also

Other OpenType fonts with mathematical layout extensions:

XITS is shipped with:

References
  1. First STIX and now XITS, project announcement on 4th of June 2010
  2. Version 1.011 announcement
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