Mathematical Characters

Categories

The following sections present the categories in alphabetic order.

Bold italic

The chart below shows bold italic mathematical characters, commonly used for matrices or vectors.

Bold script

Bold

Upright bold mathematical characters.

Double-struck

Double-struck mathematical characters (frequenly used to represent sets of numbers, such as the reals, rationals and integers). They are also known as blackboard mathematical characters (that’s their name in the LaTeX world).

Fraktur

Italic

These are the ordinary “default” mathematical characters used for variables.

Monospaced

Monospaced characters, frequently used for multi-letter function names implemented in computer code (as opposed to defined mathematically).

Symbols

Heterogeneous category which contains all characters that are not contained in the above categories. Includes some Greek and Hebrew letters.