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Charis SIL Font Download
‘...finally you have a barred ‘B’ (U+0243 ). Thanks.’
‘Molte grazie per questi alfabeti veramente internazionali!’
Table of Contents for this web page:
Optional Registration Form
License
Notes to contributors
Font Download
Charis SIL 4.106 (official release)
Installation and Use
Release History
Related Packages
Optional Registration Form
Thank you for your interest in Charis SIL.
License
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http://scripts.sil.org/) with Reserved Font Names "Charis" and "SIL".
Notes to contributors
The release of Charis SIL version 4.0.02 (Version 4.002) (and any subsequent versions) under the OFL license provides a means for people to contribute to the project. For information on what you're allowed to change or modify, consult the OFL and OFL-FAQ. The OFL-FAQ also gives a very general rationale regarding why you would want to contribute to the project.
Anyone can make their own modified version of Charis SIL (using a different name), but SIL International will continue to maintain and develop the canonical version of the Charis SIL fonts. As the package maintainer, we warmly welcome contributions. Here are some things to keep in mind:
- Format: We are open to contributions in various formats, but if you want to maximise the chances of us including your work, please make it available to us (via email or a URL) as either a FontLab database (preferred) or a PostScript Type 1 (or OT-CFF) font.
- Source files: We are not yet making the source files available, because our build system is rather complex and difficult to reproduce. We hope to include an easier process in the future.
- Copyright attribution: If you submit something for inclusion in the main Charis SIL fonts, we will ask you to affirm that it is your original work, and ask you to assign the copyright of your work to SIL International. This is to ensure that future releases can be made under improved versions of the OFL without needing to track you down for further permission. This follows the same principle used by the FSF. Keep in mind that we are a not-for-profit organization committed to free/libre and open source software, and that any contributions incorporated in the fonts will always be available under the OFL or a similar license.
- Quality: Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality for the primary Charis SIL fonts, we will review submissions carefully. Please don't be discouraged if we do not include a submission for this reason, or ask you to make specific revisions.
- Types of contributions: If you wish to make a contribution - a set of additional glyphs, scripts, code, etc. - please contact us before you do any work to see if it is a contribution we currently need. Every addition adds to the complexity of the project and needs to be carefully planned. This also avoids two people working on the same type of addition at the same time.
- Linux packages: Please contact the upstream maintainer of the various packages -
Nicolas Spalinger - if you want to help package or maintain a package.
- When submissions will be included: We plan to revise the fonts when major updates are needed (eg new versions of Unicode). If you wish to make submissions, contact us on the timing.
Font Download
If you agree to the terms of use (described above), then download the fonts from the following links. Previous versions can be found on the Version page.
Note for Literacy users
There are a number of options for you if you need a literacy font.
- The Andika font is a sans-serif font that is specifically designed for literacy use. Andika can be found here. It does not yet have the complete character/glyph repertoire that Charis SIL contains.
- Charis SIL has also been modified for literacy use (). That font (along with ) can be found on this page: Special Interest Derivative Unicode Fonts.
Charis SIL 4.106 (official release)
Below the download packages for "Charis SIL" are downloads for a font called "Charis SIL Compact". This font is the same as "Charis SIL" with the exception of a tighter line-spacing.
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If you are uncertain what to do with a .zip file, see Decompression Utilities, Downloading & Installation Tips. Within the archive is the font file and documentation. This font can be installed using standard font installation procedures for the given operating-system platform. Note that certain applications may not see the new font immediately. You may have to quit and restart the application for the font to become available. |
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This package contains the same files as CharisSIL4.106.zip. This installer is only for Windows users. Once the package has been downloaded, you can double-click on it to install the font file and documentation. After installing, you can read the documentation files at . Note that certain applications may not see the new font immediately. You may have to quit and restart the application for the font to become available. |
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Charis SIL Compact (these fonts were created by SIL TypeTuner, by setting the "Line spacing" feature to "Tight", and they cannot be TypeTuned again) Warning Any of our Roman fonts that have had the linespacing changed to a tighter setting could potentially have "clipping" of diacritics if there is more than one diacritic above a tall character. This is normally just a screen problem. When the page is printed, the diacritics will print. |
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If you are uncertain what to do with a .zip file, see Decompression Utilities, Downloading & Installation Tips. Within the archive is the font file and documentation. This font can be installed using standard font installation procedures for the given operating-system platform. Note that certain applications may not see the new font immediately. You may have to quit and restart the application for the font to become available. |
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This package contains the same files as CharisSILCompact4.106.zip. This installer is only for Windows users. Once the package has been downloaded, you can double-click on it to install the font file and documentation. After installing, you can read the documentation files at . Note that certain applications may not see the new font immediately. You may have to quit and restart the application for the font to become available. |
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List of changes for this version:
- Design changes:
- Adjusted attachment points on:
- U+04FA
- U+04FB
- U+1D68
- U+1D69
- U+1D6A
- fi and fl ligatures
- U+04FA
- Lowered U+00A1
INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK and U+00BF
INVERTED QUESTION MARK
- fixed advance of t-caron
- slight adjustment of U+02D0 MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON and U+002F SOLIDUS. Metrics were not changed.
- Fixed collision issues for all Vietnamese glyphs 'with horn' (U+0315
COMBINING COMMA ABOVE RIGHT). This means the metrics changed for these characters.
- Feature modifications:
- new alternates added to feature ID 1033 and renamed from to
- new alternate U+2C65 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE added to feature
- default for was changed from "on" to "off" (by request of FieldWorks team)
- was altered so that U+0311
COMBINING INVERTED BREVE or U+0361
COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE will span the "ou" digraph.
- changed design of
- U+02ED
MODIFIER LETTER UNASPIRATED (to match IPA)
- U+02FF
(made spacing)
- U+034B
COMBINING HOMOTHETIC ABOVE (to match IPA)
- U+0358
COMBINING DOT ABOVE RIGHT (positioning)
- U+045F
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+04A8
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN HA (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+04A9
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN HA (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+04AA
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER
- U+04AB
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES WITH DESCENDER
- U+04BC
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+04BD
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+04BE
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE WITH DESCENDER (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+04BF
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN CHE WITH DESCENDER (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+04E0
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ABKHASIAN DZE (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+04E1
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ABKHASIAN DZE (by request of Abkhaz community)
- U+2C6D
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA
- U+F209
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL TURNED ALPHA
- U+02ED
- Slant italic bug fixed (dot on i was not disappearing with combining marks)
- Adjusted attachment points on:
- Removal of about 700 unused (and unencoded) glyphs (including precomposed chao tone letters which were no longer needed since these are now dynamically created). (This should not affect anyone, it was used for smart font rendering and we changed how we rendered them.)
- Fixed issues: kern table error, usMaxContext and yMax errors
- Several OpenType issues fixed
- Graphite reordering bug fixed
- Automated AAT build process
- Changed OFL license to version 1.1
- Added:
- New features:
- True Small Caps
- Non-European caron alternates
- Capital B-hook alternate
- Show deprecated PUA
- Some (not all) Latin and Cyrillic Unicode 5.1 characters added and if they were already in SIL's corporate PUA they are double-encoded.
- U+0462
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YAT
- U+0463
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YAT
- U+0474
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IZHITSA
- U+0475
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IZHITSA
- U+0524 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER
- U+0525 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER
- U+20E5
COMBINING REVERSE SOLIDUS OVERLAY
- U+2203
THERE EXISTS
- U+2204
THERE DOES NOT EXIST
- U+231C..U+231F (Corners)
- U+2329
LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET
- U+232A
RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET
- U+239B..U+23AD (Bracket pieces for FieldWorks use)
- U+A722..U+A725 (Egyptological ain and alef)
- PUA characters:
- F26B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED H
- F32C CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHHA WITH DESCENDER
- F32D CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHHA WITH DESCENDER
- New features:
Installation and Use
If you are uncertain what to do with a .zip file, see Decompression Utilities, Downloading & Installation Tips. Within the archive is the font file and documentation.
Otherwise, if you downloaded the .exe package you can double-click on it to install the fonts and documentation.
Note that these packages only include the font itself. If you want to use the font to type languages that use special non-European letters, or to type Cyrillic, then you may need a separate keyboard manager.
This font can be installed using standard font installation procedures for the given operating-system platform ( put the font in Windows\Fonts. put the font in /Library/Fonts). There are no additional installation steps required to use Graphite-related functionality. Note that certain applications may not see the new font immediately. You may have to quit and restart the application for the font to become available.
For tips on using the GNU/Linux package, see the Gentium GNU/Linux page.
Release History
24 April 2009 Release of Charis SIL 4.106.
16 May 2008 Release of Charis SIL 4.104.
16 August 2007 Release of Charis SIL 4.102.
31 January, 2007 Official release of Charis SIL 4.100.
1 March, 2006 Release of Charis SIL Literacy 4.0.02 (Version 4.002).
31 January, 2006 Official release of Charis SIL 4.0.02 (Version 4.002).
9 December, 2005 Public beta 2 release of Charis SIL 4.0.02 (Version 4.002).
21 October, 2005 Public beta 1 release of Charis SIL 4.0.02 (Version 4.002).
Related Packages
 | Marking Tone in Unicode and the SIL Corporate PUA Lorna A. Priest, 2007-02-01 Download "PitchContours.v1.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 515KB [15259 downloads] |
This document gives an overview of most of the ways you can mark tone in Unicode. It also outlines the encoding and implementation of the 9-level pitch contours which were just added to our SIL Unicode Roman fonts.
Some tools and resources for character inputLinks to useful tools for character input.
IPA Unicode KeyboardsThis page contains keyboards created for typing in IPA data.
On Windows, three keyboarding options are available: an IPA Keyman keyboard and keyboards which work through the Windows keyboarding system (MSKLC) for US and UK keyboard layouts. A third option is now available using the AutoHotkey program.
We also now provide an IPA keyboard for Linux as a debian package.
Installable keyboards for Mac OS X version 10.2, designed to allow entry of Unicode 5.0 IPA characters. Includes Dvorak version.
TECkitThe latest release of TECkit adds support for Unicode version 5.1. TECkit is a low-level toolkit intended to be used by other applications that need to perform encoding conversions (e.g., when importing legacy data into a Unicode-based application).
Mapping FilesThese are currently available TECkit mapping files. These mapping files were created for converting data to Unicode. Some, but not all, will also convert data from Unicode back to the legacy encoding. A few are Unicode to Unicode conversions. These mapping files are for use with TECkit applications.
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