A widely used OpenType font for LaTeX documents.

Usually provided as an OpenType font, designed to be more compatible with modern PDF standards and Unicode conversion.

Monotype Imaging (often, though Symbol itself is a legacy Apple/Adobe standard, Monotype provides a version of it). Appearance: Contains the standard Greek alphabet ( , etc.) and math operators (

Historically, the font was distributed as part of the Microsoft Windows operating system and other proprietary software packages. As such, many users are licensed to use the font for personal, non-commercial work on the specific computer where the operating system is installed. However, this license typically does not grant the right to distribute the font file separately. Any use of the font beyond the scope of the original software license—such as embedding it in a commercial mobile app, a for-profit eBook, or a branded website—likely requires a separate commercial license.

Use Symbolmt-normal for:

If you cannot install Symbolmt-normal but need to read a document, try these alternatives:

where this font is showing up as boxes, or are you looking for a specific character inside it? Symbol font family - Typography | Microsoft Learn

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Even the most robust fonts can encounter issues. Users sometimes experience the "SymbolMT Font Missing" error when opening PDFs or older documents. This often happens because the document was created on a system that had the font installed, but it is missing on the current viewing system. Notably, Apple's macOS does not come with SymbolMT pre-installed, as it is a commercial Monotype font, leading to frequent missing-font errors on Macs.