It was one of the first widely available fonts to support a large portion of the Unicode repertoire.

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.

Jost Gippert and Carl-Martin Bunz were the principal developers.

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: An extended version of this font is TITUS Cyberbit Unicode, which includes 36,161 characters in v4.0.