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Charis SIL

Category

Serif

Classification

Slab serif

Designer(s)

SIL International

Date released

2006

License

SIL Open Font License

Design based on

Bitstream Charter

Sample

Website

software.sil.org/charis/

Charis SIL (/ˈkɛərɪs/) is a slab serif typeface developed by SIL International based on Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed for laser printers. The font offers four family members: roman, bold, italic, and bold italic.

Its design goal is to "provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs."[1]

Charis SIL supports Graphite, OpenType, and AAT technologies for advanced rendering features. Along with Doulos SIL and Gentium, it is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL),[2] and can be downloaded free of charge.[3]

Version 6.2 of the font, with over 3,800 glyphs,[4] current as of 2023, was released on 1 February 2023.[5]

Gentium Book Plus font with 'a' and 'g' set to primer style
Andika font with two features selected

Variant forms of many characters can be chosen in the word-processor. For example, for primer-style 'a' and 'g', append ss01=1 to the name of the font in the font-selection window.[6] (Features are appended with a colon and linked with an ampersand – see images at left.) Alternatively, customized versions of the fonts can be created with TypeTuner, prior to download, that have those forms preset.[7]

Features that may be chosen include small capitals, primer-style 'a' and 'g', roman-style 'a' and 'g' in italic typeface, variant forms of capital 'Ŋ', large modifier letter apostrophe and Saltillo, Vietnamese-style diacritics, Serbian-style italics (in Cyrillic), staveless tone letters, and automatic fractions.[6]

Phonetician John C. Wells has recommended Charis SIL as an excellent font for displaying IPA symbols.[8]

Sources[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Charis SIL (Home Page)". 2 October 2014.
  • ^ "SIL Open Font License (OFL)". scripts.sil.org.
  • ^ Download page on sil.org
  • ^ "Character Set Support". Charis SIL. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  • ^ "Current Versions". SIL International. 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  • ^ a b Charis: features
  • ^ TypeTuner Web homepage
  • ^ Wells, John (2012-06-04). "IPA transcription in Unicode". University College London. Archived from the original on 2007-12-02.
  • External links[edit]

    Software
    and libraries

  • Fontmatrix
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  • Pango
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  • GNU Lesser General Public License
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  • Ubuntu Font Licence
  • Operating system,
    corporate and
    professional

  • Bitstream Charter
  • Bitstream Vera
  • Breeze Sans
  • Cascadia Code
  • Cantarell
  • Charis SIL
  • Computer Modern
  • Courier Prime
  • Doulos SIL
  • Droid
  • Fira
  • Gentium
  • Ghostscript fonts
  • GNU FreeFont
  • GNU Unifont
  • Go and Go Mono
  • Hershey fonts
  • IBM Plex
  • Liberation
  • Literata
  • Lohit
  • Luxi
  • Nanum fonts
  • Nimbus Mono
  • OCR-A
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  • Ubuntu, Ubuntu Titling
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  • Groups and
    people

  • Ray Larabie
  • Raph Levien
  • Behdad Esfahbod
  • Font Awesome
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  • Google Fonts
  • SIL International
  • Free and open-source software portal

  • List of open source typefaces
  • List of free software Unicode typefaces

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