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{{Short description|Unicode serif typeface}}

{{infobox typeface
| name             = Bitstream Cyberbit
| image            = Cyberbit.png
| style            = [[Serif]]
| foundry          = [[Bitstream Inc.]]
| based_on         = [[Times New Roman]]
}}

'''''Bitstream Cyberbit''''' is a commercial [[serif]] [[Unicode]] [[typeface|font]] designed by [[Bitstream Inc]]. It is [[freeware]] 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 [[Unicode Consortium]] members with a large Unicode-encoded font to use for testing and development purposes.  The font has 32,910 characters (29,934 [[glyph]]s) and 935 [[kerning]] 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 retail product.

==TITUS Cyberbit==
{{infobox typeface
| name             = TITUS Cyberbit
| style            = [[Serif]]
| foundry          = [[Bitstream Inc.]], [[TITUS (project)|TITUS]]
}}

[[File:Bitstream cyberbit font.png|thumb|400px|A sample of Cyberbit characters]]
[[File:Nàng.svg|thumb|150px|The Chinese character 齉 nàng in Cyberbit]]
[[File:U+2126.svg|thumb|150px|The Greek character Omega in Cyberbit]]

'''''TITUS Cyberbit Basic''''' is a typeface derived from the Bitstream Cyberbit family, designed by [[Bitstream Inc.]] and the [[TITUS (project)|TITUS]] 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 [[Medieval Unicode Font Initiative]], and it includes 10,044 glyphs (9,341 characters) in version 3.0 (2000) (revision 4.0) from the following Unicode blocks:
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* 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)
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An extended version of this font is '''''TITUS Cyberbit Unicode''''', which includes 36,161 characters in v4.0.

==See also==
* [[Bitstream Speedo Fonts]]
* [[Bitstream Vera]]
* [[List of typefaces#Unicode fonts|List of typefaces]]
* [[TITUS (project)]]
* [[Unicode typefaces]]

==External links==

{{Commons category|Bitstream Cyberbit}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907182545/http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/ Bitstream Cyberbit Download & Documentation] from a [[Netscape]] [[FTP server]]
* The remnants of [https://web.archive.org/web/20090627104835/http://www.bitstream.com/fonts/support/cyberbit_main.html Bitstream's Cyberbit support page]
*[http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm?/unicode/unitest2.htm TITUS Font description]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070709125721/http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp TITUS Cyberbit Font download] (freeware, requires registration)
*[http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp?Inp1=A&Inp2=B&Inp3=C&Inp4=d%40e.com&Inp6=0&Inp5=1 TITUS Cyberbit Unicode download]

[[Category:Unicode typefaces]]