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• • February 24, 2022 at 8:45 am #14359164
    Jim Smirch

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    Maybe someone can help me. I’m looking for a serif font with well-designed segmented brackets. Maybe they have another name — brackets, braces, parentheses made up of separate glyphs for the top, middle, and bottom sections typically used for setting mathematical equations.

    The Symbol font from various foundries has some, as do the math fonts listed on LaTex sites and a few of the fonts offered by SIL. They all look pretty much the same.

    Those in Andika from Google Fonts would work stylistically, but the font file would need editing to make them align correctly. The best I’ve found are in Cambria Math, which comes with Windows.

    Is anyone aware of any other well-designed serif fonts that have those kinds of brackets (or braces or parentheses)? MyFonts.com doesn’t allow a search by Unicode anymore, and I couldn’t find any other fonts on sites that do allow a search by Unicode.

    Thanks

  • February 24, 2022 at 3:15 pm #14359183
    Nick B

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    Hi Jim

    You may have come across them via your searches already, but for setting our maths books we use the STIX family of fonts. They cover pretty much the whole gamut of mathematical notation, and have composable brackets in square and curly variants. They are available free to download from the STIX fonts website..

    Nick

    • February 26, 2022 at 8:01 am #14359241
      Jim Smirch

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      Thanks for the response, Nick.

      I guess “composable brackets” is the term I needed.

      I had run across the STIX fonts website, but it wasn’t immediately obvious how to download the fonts. On your suggestion, I went back and made my way to the GitHub page and downloaded the math font to try. I also downloaded the variable text fonts, which look interesting.

      Jim

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