STIX Two Text

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400STIX Two Text Regular Italic
• Medium 500STIX Two Text Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600STIX Two Text SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700STIX Two Text Bold Bold Italic

STIX Two Text is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About STIX Two Text

STIX Two Text is a serif family for continuous reading in scientific, medical and technical documents. STIX stands for Scientific and Technical Information eXchange, a project started jointly by publishers and societies including the American Mathematical Society, the American Institute of Physics, IEEE and Elsevier. The specimen shows moderate stroke contrast, bracketed serifs, a compact lowercase and lining figures that align with the capitals. Ross Mills, John Hudson and Paul Hanslow of Tiro Typeworks are credited with the design. The family has four weights, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, in roman and italic, eight styles in all, delivered as two variable files with a weight axis from 400 to 700. Its 2,226 glyphs cover Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese. A companion Math font exists but is distributed from the project repository, not in this package.

Where STIX Two Text works

Journal articles and papers

The family was made for authors and publishers in the sciences, and its four text weights with italics cover body copy, emphasis and headings.

Textbooks and technical manuals

Greek and Cyrillic letters share the design of the Latin, so symbols and names in running text match the surrounding words.

Theses and reports

Medium and SemiBold sit between Regular and Bold, giving table heads and captions their own level.

Long-form reading on the web

Two variable files carry all eight styles, so a page loads roman and italic without a file per weight.

Multilingual reference works

Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese character sets in one family let an index or bibliography mix languages.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, greek, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with STIX Two Text

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use STIX Two Text on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "STIX Two Text";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/STIXTwoText-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "STIX Two Text";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/STIXTwoText-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "STIX Two Text", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves STIX Two Text with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=STIX+Two+Text:ital,wght@0,400..700;1,400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Weight axis stops at 700

The variable axis runs from 400 to 700. There is no light or black weight.

Math font is separate

STIX Two Math is not part of this download; the official notes say it is available from the project repository.

Reserved name and trademark

The copyright notice reserves the font name "TM Math" and states that STIX Fonts is a trademark of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

FAQs

Collections with STIX Two Text

• Serif fonts for academic and scholarly writing

  Text families with very large character sets for theses, journals and critical editions: Greek, Cyrillic, phonetic and historical characters.

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