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SIL Vai Fonts Download

Lorna A. Priest, 2007-03-14

Note:

These fonts are still custom (legacy) 8-bit fonts. They are not Unicode fonts. We do not recommend that you use the SIL Vai font. However, we do provide links to some Unicode resources below:

Unicode Fonts: — Two Vai Unicode fonts are available here. Dukor is based on SIL Vai. Windows 7 provides a Unicode font with Vai support called Ebrima.
Unicode Keyboards: — A Windows Keyman keyboard is available here: Known Unicode Keyman Keyboards. A MacOSX keyboard is available here. An online Vai input tool (beta) Vai Graphical and Keyboard Input Interface.
TECkit mapping files for converting SIL Vai text to Unicode are provided here.

Table of Contents for this web page:

Downloading and Installing the Font Package
Release History
Related Packages
Other Resources

Downloading and Installing the Font Package

Downloads

Installation and Use

SIL Vai 3.2 Font Package (Windows, Macintosh and Linux)
NRSI Staff, 2007-03-09
Download "SILVaiOFL3.2.zip", ZIP archive, 584KB [5639 downloads]

If you are uncertain what to do with a .zip file, see Decompression Utilities, Downloading & Font 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.

SIL Vai 3.2 Font Packand and Keyman keyboard (ver. 0.1)
NRSI Staff, 2007-03-09
Download "SILVaiOFL3.2.kmp", Keyman keyboard package, 583KB [2321 downloads]

This package contains the same files as SILVaiOFL3.2.zip. However, it is an installer for the Keyman keyboard as well as for the fonts. The Keyman keyboard is version 0.1.

This keyboard was developed for keyboarding the Vai Script. For guidelines on who can use Keyman and for downloading, go to: https://keyman.com. The “SIL Vai Script version 0.1 beta” keyboard is designed to work with the SIL Vai font which is a part of this package. This keyboard will not work with any other font since the font is an 8-bit encoding and not Unicode.

If you download this package, you must have Keyman already installed. You can just double-click SILVaiOFL3.2.kmp to install the keyboard package and font. Once installed, documentation can be found at Start / All Programs / SIL Vai Script version 0.1 beta.

SIL Vai 3.2 source and font release (Windows, Macintosh and Linux)
NRSI Staff, 2007-03-09
Download "SILVaiOFL3.2_Src.zip", ZIP archive, 1MB [1948 downloads]

This package contains the same files as SILVaiOFL3.2.zip plus the Fontographer and Keyman source files.

If you are uncertain what to do with a .zip file, see Decompression Utilities, Downloading & Font Installation Tips. Within the archive is the font file and documentation.

Release History

14 March 2007 Version 3.2 OFL release.

9 August 2004 Version 3.1 First Public Release.

1 September 1999 Version 1.0 released.

Related Packages

Keyman Joan Wardell, 2007-04-23
Keyman is a keyboard management utility that makes it practical to input many different languages in almost any Windows application. Keyman allows you to have arbitrarily long input sequences and to have diacritics typed after the base character.

Some tools and resources for character input 2016-02-08
Links to useful tools for character input.

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