MITT fonts

MITT Sans 0.8 and Serif 0.7

MITT Sans is a multi-lingual font with customized features for writing arabic, hebrew, yiddish and russian, both romanized and in their own scripts.

The latin, greek and cyrillic scripts are at development stage “0.99”, practically ready for generic use. Unattractive kerning can occur in very rare scenarios, especially in the greek and cyrillic scripts, and most probably when writing text with ALL-UPPERCASE letters.

Hebrew, arabic and yiddish are completely absent from the MITT Serif font. (This font contains arabic letters, but they are merely a clone of some other font under SIL Open Font license, in the traditional one-case style, waiting for further processing.)

MITT Sans font is at a “visual proof-of-concept” stage for hebrew, arabic and yiddish. The font lacks many basic features that are crucially important, when people use a font in their daily life:

• The arabic letters remain in their isolated forms, without automatically taking the initial, medial or final form when necessary. Joined arabic text can be created only by using the Unicode character of the correct letter forms in the text (which is not a typical task that any arabic-speaker does with a computer, or even knows how to do).

• Nearly all consonants are at their expected Unicode code points. Text with mixed uppercase and lowercase (or small caps) letters can be created by choosing MITT Sans lowercase (or small caps) as the font for the entire text, and then changing the font into MITT Sans uppercase for the letters that should be uppercase. Sometimes the text looks better if the vowel of the uppercase letter is in lowercase or small caps, rather than in uppercase, if the next letters in the word are in lowercase.

• The vowels and diacritical marks of hebrew, arabic and yiddish are not treated in a serious manner in this version of the MITT Sans font. Normally a font should contain one character only for each vowel of these languages, and specific settings in the font describe, how the vowel should be positioned after each letter. These settings are missing from the font, but the proof-of-concept text samples use carefully considered positioning of vowels nevertheless. This was done by having the same vowel in various positions at different Unicode code points (typically, of the rarely used cantillation marks). This solution has been created for such scenarios only, which have occurred in the sample texts so far, so not every vowel can be beautifully positioned with every consonant in this version of the font.

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The term "lowercase", "small caps" or "uppercase" in the name of these fonts applies to letters of the semitic scripts only. Latin, greek and cyrillic letters have the ordinary two cases in all these fonts.

• 2025-03-10   list of untypical glyphs in MITT fonts

• 2025-03-10   MITT Sans lowercase 0.8

• 2025-03-10   MITT Sans small caps 0.8

• 2025-03-10   MITT Sans uppercase 0.8

• 2025-03-02   MITT Serif 0.7

Obsolete legacy fonts

These early font designs use glyph mappings that differ significantly from the later MITT fonts. The various development versions of the Aaron font (originally called eHebrew / extended hebrew font) contain some experimentation and variation in the designs of lowercase letters.

• glyph mappings in Aaron / eHebrew font (Excel file)

• 2004-12-31   Aaron Serif two-case (final)

• 2004-12-29   Aaron Serif two-case

• 2004-12-15   Aaron Serif two-case “cut”

• 2004-12-14   Aaron Serif small caps & uppercase

• 2004-12-12   eHebrew Serif two-case

• 2004-11-30   eHebrew Serif small caps & uppercase

Sketches for possible fonts

• Hebrew formal script (18 november 2004)

• Sinaitic script (16 october 2004)