XITS font project

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Short description: Mathematical OpenType typeface
XITS font project
CategoryVarious
ClassificationTransitional
Designer(s)Khaled Hosny
FoundryAlif Type
Date created2010
Date released2019
LicenseSIL Open Font License
Design based onSTIX Fonts project
Also known asXITS Math
Websitehttps://github.com/aliftype/xits
Latest release version1.302
Latest release date2 July 2020

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.[1]

Specimen of XITS Math usage

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).[3]

See also

Other OpenType fonts with mathematical layout extensions:

  • Asana Math
  • Latin Modern Math

XITS is shipped with:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "First STIX and now XITS | خالد حسني" (in ar). http://www.khaledhosny.org/node/143. 
  2. ↑ Version 1.011 announcement
  3. ↑ "The LaTeX Font Catalogue – XITS". https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/xits/. 
  4. ↑ "CTAN: Package xits". https://ctan.org/pkg/xits?lang=en. 



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