''Bitstream Cyberbit'' is a commercial

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. It is

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for non-commercial uses. It was one of the first widely available fonts to support a large portion of the Unicode repertoire. Cyberbit was developed by Bitstream to provide

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members with a large Unicode-encoded font to use for testing and development purposes. The font has 32,910 characters (29,934

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s) and 935

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pairs in v2.0 beta. The related ''Bitstream Cyberbase'' font includes a much smaller number of characters, with 1,249 glyphs and 935 kerning pairs in v1.0 beta. Bitstream no longer offers Cyberbit as a free download or as a retail product.

TITUS Cyberbit

''TITUS Cyberbit Basic'' is a typeface derived from the Bitstream Cyberbit family, designed by

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and the

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project for Unicode 4.0. Jost Gippert and Carl-Martin Bunz were the principal developers. It can be obtained for free from TITUS and is freeware for non-commercial uses. TITUS Cyberbit Basic supports part of the

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, and it includes 10,044 glyphs (9,341 characters) in version 3.0 (2000) (revision 4.0) from the following Unicode blocks: * Basic Latin (95) * Latin-1 Supplement (96) * Latin Extended-A (128) * Latin Extended-B (183) * IPA Extensions (96) * Spacing Modifier Letters (80) * Combining Diacritical Marks (106) * Greek (128) * Cyrillic (247) * Cyrillic Supplement (16) * Armenian (86) * Hebrew (83) * Arabic (185) * Syriac (76) * Thaana (50) * Devanagari (106) * Thai (87) * Georgian (83) * Ethiopic (364) * Ogham (32) * Runic (81) * Phonetic Extensions (108) * Latin Extended Additional (247) * Greek Extended (236) * General Punctuation (68) * Superscripts and Subscripts (29) * Currency Symbols (12) * Letterlike Symbols (13) * Number Forms (28) * Arrows (21) * Mathematical Operators (80) * Miscellaneous Technical (8) * Enclosed Alphanumerics (112) * Box Drawing (112) * Block Elements (10) * Geometric Shapes (53) * Miscellaneous Symbols (33) * Glagolitic (94) * Coptic (114) * Georgian Supplement (38) * CJK Symbols and Punctuation (31) * Hiragana (90) * Katakana (94) * Bopomofo (37) * Private Use Area (4,649) * CJK Compatibility Ideographs (1) * Alphabetic Presentation Forms (57) * Arabic Presentation Forms-A (205) * CJK Compatibility Forms (27) * Small Form Variants (29) * Arabic Presentation Forms-B (140) * Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (157) An extended version of this font is ''TITUS Cyberbit Unicode'', which includes 36,161 characters in v4.0.

External links

{{Commons category, Bitstream Cyberbit
Bitstream Cyberbit Download & Documentation
from a

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FTP server * The remnants o
Bitstream's Cyberbit support pageTITUS Cyberbit Font download
(freeware, requires registration)
TITUS Cyberbit Unicode download
Unicode typefaces

TITUS Cyberbit

See also

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