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SIL Fonts for downloading

NRSI staff, 2015-07-08

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Released fonts

Unicode encoded fonts

Font Name	Script	Style	Windows installer	Mac	Linux	OFL	Graphite	OpenType	AAT	TypeTuner	Woff
Abyssinica SIL 1.500	Ethiopic	calligraphic
Andika 5.000	Latin/Cyrillic/IPA	sans serif
Andika 5.000 Subsets	Latin/Cyrillic/IPA	sans serif
Andika New Basic 5.500	Latin	sans serif
Annapurna SIL 1.200	Devanagari	calligraphic
Apparatus SIL 1.0
Charis SIL 5.000	Latin/Cyrillic/IPA	serif
Charis SIL 5.000 Subsets	Latin/Cyrillic/IPA	serif
Dai Banna SIL 2.200	New Tai Lue
Doulos SIL 5.000	Latin/Cyrillic/IPA	serif
Doulos SIL 5.000 Subsets	Latin/Cyrillic/IPA	serif
Doulos SIL Cipher 1.020	Cipher Music
Ezra SIL 2.51	Hebrew	square
Galatia SIL 2.1	Greek	serif
Gentium 1.03	Latin/Greek/Cyrillic	serif
Gentium Basic 1.100	Latin	serif
Gentium Plus 5.000	Latin/Greek/Cyrillic/IPA	serif
Gentium Plus 5.000 Subsets	Latin/Cyrillic/IPA	serif
Harmattan 1.000	Arabic	Warsh
Lateef 1.001	Arabic	naskh
The Mondulkiri Font Family	Khmer
Nuosu SIL 2.1.1	Yi
Padauk 2.8	Myanmar
Scheherazade 2.100	Arabic	naskh
Sophia Nubian 1.0	Coptic	sans serif
Special Interest Derivative Unicode Fonts	Latin/Cyrillic
Tai Heritage Pro 2.500	Tai Viet
Unicode BMP Fallback Font	all of BMP up to Unicode 6.1

SIL IPA Unicode (beta)

The SIL Unicode IPA beta font was a Unicode-encoded font for Linux®, Macintosh® or Windows® systems. The Doulos SIL font has a more extensive character inventory, and replaces the IPA Unicode font beta font.

Legacy fonts

Font Name	Script	Windows	Mac	OFL
Legacy Encode-Numbers (Obsolete)
Namdhinggo SIL L (Obsolete)	Limbu
Nastaliq Navees (Obsolete)	Arabic
SIL Apparatus (Obsolete)
SIL Encore (Obsolete)	Latin/Cyrillic
SIL Galatia (Obsolete)	Greek
SIL Ezra (Obsolete)	Hebrew
SIL IPA (Obsolete)	Latin
SIL IPA (Obsolete)	Latin
SIL Tai Dam (Obsolete)	Tai Viet
SIL Dai Banna (Obsolete)	New Tai Lue
SIL Vai	Vai
Zaghawa Beria Font	Beria

Fonts in Development

Development status

Please note that the materials offered in this section are still in development, and are made available for testing purposes only. Final releases may vary substantially from pre-release versions.

Font Name	Script	Style	Windows installer	Mac	Linux	OFL	Graphite	OpenType	AAT	TypeTuner	Woff
Awami Nastaliq	Arabic	Nastaliq
Mingzat	Lepcha
Namdhinggo SIL	Limbu
ShiShan	Miao (Pollard)

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"SAlih Brandt", Mon, Jun 12, 2006 13:58 (EDT)
Naves Nastaliq

This looks like its going to be a good font. but the linkages do not work in OSX when using text edit which seems to be hte premier programme for writing in unusual languages.

Any hints from anyone?

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"Jonathan", Thu, Jun 15, 2006 09:05 (EDT)
Re: Naves Nastaliq

The Nastaliq Navees font was developed for Apple's QuickDraw GX technology, part of Mac OS versions 7.x and 8. This system is now obsolete. It would be nice to update the font for current technology (Mac OS X, Unicode, AAT), but we have not had the time and resources to work on this; therefore, it will not work with today's software.

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"pervaz khan", Wed, Aug 9, 2006 15:49 (EDT)
Re: Naves Nastaliq

dear sir is this font is for windows

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jonathan, Wed, Aug 9, 2006 15:54 (EDT)
Re: Naves Nastaliq

No. See the System Requirements page.

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"Khaled Hosny", Sun, Nov 18, 2007 20:00 (EST)
Re: Naves Nastaliq

Any chance this font (or at leaset the glyphs composing it and some documentation about has this font was designed) got released under a free software lisence? so that free comunity can pick it and, hopfully, port it to modern font technologies like AAT and graphite. I'd personally like to work on such font.

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"nickshanks", Thu, May 12, 2011 11:13 (EDT)
Re: Naves Nastaliq

The MacArabic-encoded font works fine in Snow Leopard, with no changes necessary.

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"Marcis Yarlyk.ru", Tue, Mar 20, 2007 22:11 (EDT)
Quallity

The fonts are really well-done.

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"guocuouoduo", Thu, Jan 29, 2015 21:48 (EST)
Update to Unicode 7.0 for the non-Latin fonts

Have any of the non-Latin fonts been upgraded to Unicode 7.0?

If not, are there any plans to do so?

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"Lorna", Tue, Feb 3, 2015 10:36 (EST)
Re: Update to Unicode 7.0 for the non-Latin fonts

Scheherazade supports the newest Unicode 7.0 Arabic script characters. The Harmattan (in the "Fonts in Development" section) font also supports some of the Unicode 7.0 Arabic script characters (but not all).

I believe those are the only non-Latin fonts we've updated so far.

Annapurna (Devanagari script) is in the process of being updated. We do not currently plan to create fonts for any of the complete scripts added to Unicode 7.0.

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"Larry", Mon, Jun 8, 2015 21:28 (EDT)
how to download

OK, I'm stupid. I don't see how to download any of these fonts. Is there some way to just download all of them? Or do I have to go to each one individually and figure out how to do it?

Thanks!

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martinpk, Tue, Jun 9, 2015 04:22 (EDT)
Re: how to download

Hi Larry!

To download fonts, click on the blue link for the font name, e.g. "Charis SIL 5.000". That will take you to the product page where you can read about the font's features and requirements, which packages are available for different platforms or different needs, etc. and then download the package that's most appropriate to your purposes.

Hope you find our fonts useful,

Peter

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