# math/statistics font
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 10, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863 "2002-09-10T23:11:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@garbage00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garbage00)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863/1 "2002-09-10T23:11:14Z")
Does anyone know where I can find a free font that has basic statistics characters such as x bar? I’ve been looking around and I haven’t seen anything. Or is there some way to type x bar that I don’t know about?
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### Author:  [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863/2 "2002-09-11T03:47:27Z")
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- Well, you can download High-Logic’s Font Creator and make a .ttf font yerself. -You can change any of the glyphs/symbols, and you only need to change the ones you want changed (start with an already-existing font). Then just re-name it “garbage\_math\_symbols” or whatever, and install.
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And it’s trialware, but it doesn’t stop working after the trial period.
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And it doesn’t allow re-doing hinting. So your home-made characters will look funny on-screen, but will print on paper perfectly…
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863/3 "2002-09-11T04:07:43Z")
Are you using Word or similar word processor? I think you can do it with the built-in equation editor.
The geek’s solution is to write the whole document in LaTeX. I find it much easier than using Word when I have to deal with math symbols or equations.
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### Author:  [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863/4 "2002-09-11T10:18:56Z")
I have MS’s Equation Editor EQNEDT32.EXE which I believe comes standard with Windows (or you can probably find it quite easily).
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863/5 "2002-09-11T10:22:18Z")
The MS equation editor is included with Office, not Windows. Though I think it’s not installed by default and you have to specify it manually during installation (or run Setup again to add it later).
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### Author:  [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863/6 "2002-09-11T11:09:21Z")
Oh, ok. Makes sense as I have Office 97
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### Author:  [@andy\_fl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andy_fl)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863/7 "2002-09-11T11:56:28Z")
The not so geek (but still geek) solution may be to download scientific notebook trial version ([www.mackichan.com](http://www.mackichan.com)). You’ll get the document as .ps or tex (not good format to export to word)
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### Author:  [@garbage00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garbage00)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/math-statistics-font/127863/8 "2002-09-11T12:18:55Z")
Very nice – thank you all for the tips. I looked at a lot of fonts last night, then I checked out a “Windowed” version of LaTeX since I’m not currently running a \*nix OS on my machine. Thanks again.