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/lexers.out /lexers.out
fonts/*trial fonts/*trial
**/*.log **/*.log
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"Deathrun", "Deathrun",
"demi", "demi",
"dichrome", "dichrome",
"ditransitivvity",
"dwarven", "dwarven",
"Ekris", "Ekris",
"Eldath", "Eldath",
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"northlands", "northlands",
"Ororon", "Ororon",
"Ororon's", "Ororon's",
"passivizer",
"planeswalker", "planeswalker",
"planetouched", "planetouched",
"Playwrite", "Playwrite",

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{.toaq-latin}
:::
# Ké Hao po Jí
This is as much for my own recollection as for the information of anyone else.
- I write with [prefix reform](), but use official pronunciation.
- I don't like ditransitivity; you'll see me use « [ôı](https://toadua.uakci.space/#o%C4%B1%20@salarua) » a lot.
- I subscribe to the [focus-topic-cleft merger](https://toaq.me/Focus%E2%80%93cleft_merger), but don't use it much.
- I subscribe to the [double focus extension](https://toaq.me/Double_focus), and _do_ use _it_ much.
- I subscribe to the [simple focus reform](https://toaq.me/Simple_Focus), as assumed by double focus.
- I use ["some scope creep"](https://toaq.me/Some_Scope_Creep).
- I use (roughly) one syntax for modals and adjuncts, which is to say that I sometimes front adjuncts and sometimes interpose modals. For example: « Kûı, ꝡá maı jı́ nháo, nä shao gaq jı́ nháo da. Jıa pua gaq jı̂ nháo, dâı shao nháo, lá he maıgeq já jı́ da. » Shúq roadue ní da.
- I consider « bo-{.toaq-latin} » to be a true-passivizer and so use « tı-{.toaq-latin} » for "inverse voice".
{.toaq-latin}
- He kulèo choq jı́ mı́mo "strict polarity" teo, kéo bumuolìm jı́ mó bu- teo da.
- I trust ꝡé moı [Kı́a](https://robin.town) hóa râq "degree words"; Kía finds that degree words need distinct grammar.
{% Chua máo mó Alexander teo rú mó Alegaqde teo jı́ da. %}
Pimna, romfıeqche jı́. Chıejı jı́ ké dıu po

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@font-face { @font-face {
font-family: 'ToaqLatin'; font-family: 'ToaqLatin';
src: url('../assets/fonts/NotoSans/NotoSans-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'); src: url('../assets/fonts/Charis-7.000/Charis-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-style: normal;
} }
@font-face { @font-face {
font-family: 'ToaqLatin'; font-family: 'ToaqLatin';
src: url('../assets/fonts/NotoSans/NotoSans-Italic.ttf') format('truetype'); src: url('../assets/fonts/Charis-7.000/Charis-Italic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal; font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic; font-style: italic;
} }
@font-face { @font-face {
font-family: 'ToaqLatin'; font-family: 'ToaqLatin';
src: url('../assets/fonts/NotoSans/NotoSans-Bold.ttf') format('truetype'); src: url('../assets/fonts/Charis-7.000/Charis-Bold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: bold; font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal; font-style: normal;
} }
@font-face { @font-face {
font-family: 'ToaqLatin'; font-family: 'ToaqLatin';
src: url('../assets/fonts/NotoSans/NotoSans-BoldItalic.ttf') format('truetype'); src: url('../assets/fonts/Charis-7.000/Charis-BoldItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: bold; font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic; font-style: italic;
} }
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.toaq-latin { .toaq-latin {
font-family: "ToaqLatin"; font-family: "ToaqLatin";
font-size: calc(0.84 * var(--base-font-size)); font-size: calc(0.92 * var(--base-font-size));
} }
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FONTLOG
Charis
==========
This file provides detailed information on the Charis family of fonts.
This information should be distributed along with the Charis fonts and
any derivative works.
## About this project
This project is intended to provide a free and open font family for all
current languages and writing systems that use Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
It supports almost the complete range of Unicode characters for these scripts,
including a comprehensive range of diacritics and a large set of symbols
useful for linguistics and literacy work. Smart font routines automatically
adjust the position of diacritics to support and optimize arbitrary
base+diacritic combinations.
Charis is optimized for readability in long printed documents. It is
highly readable and holds up well in less-than-ideal reproduction environments
due to its simple and robust design with strong serifs and clear features.
## Note regarding Charter
This Charis font is essentially the same design as the SIL Charis font
first released by SIL in 1997. The design of the basic character set of Charis
is similar (but not identical) to Bitstream Charter, designed by Matthew
Carter. The following notice accompanied the Charter fonts:
> © Copyright 1989-1992, Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA.
>
> You are hereby granted permission under all Bitstream propriety rights to
> use, copy, modify, sublicense, sell, and redistribute the 4 Bitstream
> Charter® Type 1 outline fonts and the 4 Courier Type 1 outline fonts for
> any purpose and without restriction; provided, that this notice is left
> intact on all copies of such fonts and that Bitstream's trademark is
> acknowledged as shown below on all unmodified copies of the 4 Charter Type
> 1 fonts.
>
> BITSTREAM CHARTER is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc.
SIL Global is the creator of the Charis fonts, and is the owner
of all proprietary rights therein.
## A Note Regarding the Open Font License and TypeTuner
The OFL prohibits the use of Reserved Font Names "Charis" and "SIL" in
the name of any font that is derived from the Original Version of Charis
SIL. However, SIL Global (the Copyright Holder) grants through
this separate written agreement the right to use the Reserved Font Names
in any Modified Version of this font created by using TypeTuner as long
as the feature information contained in the Original Version is used,
unmodified, as the source for TypeTuner feature information, and
neither "Charis" nor "Charis SIL" is the resulting font family name.
TypeTuner-produced fonts created in this manner are still bound by the
terms of the OFL. Specifically, the use of Reserved Font Names is
prohibited when making derivatives of a TypeTuner-produced font. Anyone
making a derivative of a TypeTuner font will need to find a different
name. For example a TypeTuner-produced font may be named
"Charis Literacy SomeFarAwayPlace" but a derivative of that font made
with other tools would not be allowed to use the "Charis" and "SIL"
Reserved Font Names and would have to be named something like "Grace Foo".
## ChangeLog
(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)
### 2 Jun 2025 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis version 7.000
***Note that this is a major upgrade with significant changes to family structure, line spacing, and glyph metrics. Please read the following carefully to understand how the changes may affect you.***
#### Font names, family structure, and line metrics
- Font family names have changed. It is possible to have both this release (v7) and the previous one (v6.2) installed at the same time. This is a permanent change intended to help with the transition from v6.2 to v7.
- *Charis SIL* is now *Charis*
- There are additional intermediate weights. Previously existing weights have not changed. Here is a list, with retained weights in **bold** and new weights in *italic*. The CSS values for the weights within each family are in parentheses. Italic faces follow a similar structure and correspondence.
- **Charis Regular** (400)
- *Charis Medium* (500)
- *Charis SemiBold* (600)
- **Charis Bold** (700)
- The default line spacing has been significantly decreased to be more similar to other common text fonts, but remains wide enough to accommodate multiple stacked diacritics.
- There are no *Compact* variants. These are less needed since the default line spacing has been decreased. *Compact* versions of the v6.2 fonts remain available from https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/
- TypeTuner Web no longer offers line spacing alternatives for the v7 fonts (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the v6.2 fonts remain available and support line spacing alternatives.
- There are no pre-tuned regional or *Literacy* special-purpose modified variants. The v6.2 variants, including *Literacy* versions, remain available from https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/. You can still manually create v7 variants with TypeTuner Web that include literacy forms and other alternatives.
#### New features and enhancements
- Kerning has now been added and covers the full range of alphabetic symbols except for small caps (which will be included in a future update). **Warning: Because of the addition of extensive kerning, line, paragraph, and page lengths may be different from v6.2.**
- Proportional Oldstyle figures are now supported through the standard OpenType feature (`onum`). These only apply to the main numerals, not fractions, superscripts, or numeral-based symbols.
- The default form for capital N with left hook has been changed to the lowercase style to match the capital Eng. The related feature (`cv44`) has been changed to substitute the uppercase style form.
- U+019D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK
- Additions to Modifier Apostrophe feature (`cv70`)
- U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA
- U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA
- U+0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE
- U+0314 COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE
- Addition to Rams Horn feature (`cv25`)
- U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN
- Small caps added for these parentheses and brackets
- U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS
- U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS
- U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
- U+005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
- U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET
- U+007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
#### New character support
- Unicode 16 additions
- U+1C89 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE
- U+1C8A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE
- U+A7CB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RAMS HORN
- This was previously in the SIL PUA (U+F26E)
- U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
- U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
- U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA
- U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA
- U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
- Orthographic at signs
- U+24B6 CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
- U+24D0 CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A
- Additional Cyrillic modifiers
- U+A69C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC HARD SIGN
- U+A69D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN
- Case mapping for Coptic eie
- U+2C89 COPTIC SMALL LETTER EIE
- Upwards ancora (and revised downwards form)
- U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
- U+2E15 UPWARDS ANCORA
- Prosodic symbols
- U+23D1 METRICAL BREVE
- U+23D2 METRICAL LONG OVER SHORT
- U+23D3 METRICAL SHORT OVER LONG
- U+23D4 METRICAL LONG OVER TWO SHORTS
- U+23D5 METRICAL TWO SHORTS OVER LONG
- U+23D6 METRICAL TWO SHORTS JOINED
- U+2E3D VERTICAL SIX DOTS
- Doubled brackets and parentheses
- U+27EA MATHEMATICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
- U+27EB MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
- U+2E28 LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
- U+2E29 RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
- Logical symbols
- U+21AE LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE
- U+22BB XOR
- U+22BC NAND
- U+22BD NOR
#### Improvements and fixes
- Support added for complex positioning of bridging double diacritics and nearby marks. Correct rendering requires a very specific encoding sequence - see https://software.sil.org/fonts/bridging-diacritics/
- U+035C COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW
- U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE
- U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON
- U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW
- U+0360 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE
- U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE
- U+0362 COMBINING DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW
- U+1DCD COMBINING DOUBLE CIRCUMFLEX ABOVE
- U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW
- U+F17A COMBINING DOUBLE DIAERESIS (in SIL PUA)
- Redesigned Central European carons
- U+010F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
- U+013D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
- U+013E LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
- U+0165 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
- Revised hooked letters to improve spacing (including kerning) and reduce collisions. Some collisions have been retained to reduce unwanted whitespace within words (e.g. ƴk).
- U+0188 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH HOOK
- U+01A5 LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH HOOK
- U+01AD LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK
- U+01B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH HOOK
- U+01B4 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH HOOK
- U+0260 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH HOOK
- U+02A0 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK
- U+2C71 LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH RIGHT HOOK
- U+2C72 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH HOOK
- U+2C73 LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH HOOK
- U+1DF09 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- Fixed position of
- U+1D09 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED I
- U+1D4E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED I
- Fixed dotless form of
- U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- Fixed spacing of
- U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN
- Revised design of
- U+A720 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND HIGH TONE
- U+A721 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND LOW TONE
- Fixed position of
- U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T
- Increased size of Vietnamese hook above
- U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE
- Improved design of some combining diacritics
- U+032B COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW
- U+033C COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW
- U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE
- Revised anchors on many letters to improve diacritic positioning, including these and related letters
- U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
- U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
- U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
- U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F
- U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I
- U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
- U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE
- Reviewed anchors on spacing acutes and graves
- U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT
- U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT
- U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT
- U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT
- U+02CE MODIFIER LETTER LOW GRAVE ACCENT
- U+02CF MODIFIER LETTER LOW ACUTE ACCENT
- Autohinting is more consistent across the font family
### 1 Feb 2023 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.200
This release is focused on adding features and glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode 14 and 15. It does not include significant changes to line spacing, glyph widths, or kerning that might cause document reflow or layout changes - except for minor improvements to the size and weight of superscript, subscript, and modifier letters.
#### New features, including *TypeTuner Web* support
- Feature to display alternate design of clicks that sit on baseline
- Baseline clicks (cv69)
- Standard 'subs' and 'sups' features for numerals. These are not supported by *TypeTuner Web*.
- Subscript numerals (subs)
- Superscript numerals (sups)
- Feature to automatically construct fractions when using U+002F SOLIDUS or U+2044 FRACTION SLASH. This is not supported by *TypeTuner Web*.
- Automatic fractions (frac)
#### New character support
- Additional click (also supported by new baseline clicks feature)
- U+2980 TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR DELIMITER
- Letters used for legacy Malayalam transliteration
- U+1DF25 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF26 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF27 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF28 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF29 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF2A LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- Letters used for Egyptological transliteration
- U+A7BA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL A
- U+A7BB LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL A
- U+A7BC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL I
- U+A7BD LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL I
- U+A7BE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL U
- U+A7BF LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL U
- Combining marks
- U+1ABF COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER W BELOW
- U+1AC0 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W BELOW
- U+1AC6 COMBINING NUMBER SIGN ABOVE
- U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE
- U+1AC8 COMBINING PLUS SIGN ABOVE
- U+1AC9 COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN ABOVE
- U+1ACA COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN BELOW
- U+1ACB COMBINING TRIPLE ACUTE ACCENT
- U+1ACC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G
- U+1ACD COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR R
- U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T
- U+1DDA COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER G
- U+1DDC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER K
- U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW
- Combining marks that are not recommended for normal use and may not combine well with letters. Precomposed characters that include the hook should be used instead except in rare cases.
- U+0321 COMBINING PALATALIZED HOOK BELOW
- U+0322 COMBINING RETROFLEX HOOK BELOW
- Modifier letters and symbols
- U+A7F2 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL C
- U+A7F3 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL F
- U+A7F4 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL Q
- U+AB69 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED W
- U+AB6A MODIFIER LETTER LEFT TACK
- U+AB6B MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT TACK
- U+10780 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL AA
- U+10781 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT TRIANGULAR COLON
- U+10782 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT HALF TRIANGULAR COLON
- U+10784 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL B
- U+10785 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL B WITH HOOK
- U+10787 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH
- U+10788 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+10789 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH CURL
- U+1078A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DEZH DIGRAPH
- U+1078B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH TAIL
- U+1078C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK
- U+1078D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK AND TAIL
- U+10790 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL FENG DIGRAPH
- U+10792 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G
- U+10793 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL G WITH HOOK
- U+10794 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK
- U+10796 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL H
- U+10797 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG WITH HOOK
- U+10798 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK
- U+10799 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LS DIGRAPH
- U+1079A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LZ DIGRAPH
- U+1079B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH BELT
- U+1079C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT
- U+1079D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT
- U+1079E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH
- U+1079F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107A1 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y WITH BELT
- U+107A4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED OMEGA
- U+107A5 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Q
- U+107A6 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG
- U+107A7 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107A8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH TAIL
- U+107A9 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH FISHHOOK
- U+107AA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL R
- U+107AB MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL
- U+107AC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH
- U+107AD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107AE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TESH DIGRAPH
- U+107AF MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107B0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL V WITH RIGHT HOOK
- U+107B3 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE
- U+107B4 MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE
- U+107B5 MODIFIER LETTER BILABIAL CLICK
- U+107B6 MODIFIER LETTER DENTAL CLICK
- U+107B7 MODIFIER LETTER LATERAL CLICK
- U+107B8 MODIFIER LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK
- U+107B9 MODIFIER LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107BA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL S WITH CURL
- Cyrillic modifier letters, subscripts, and combining marks
- U+1E030 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL A
- U+1E031 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BE
- U+1E032 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL VE
- U+1E033 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL GHE
- U+1E034 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL DE
- U+1E035 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL IE
- U+1E036 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZHE
- U+1E037 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZE
- U+1E038 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL I
- U+1E039 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL KA
- U+1E03A MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EL
- U+1E03B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EM
- U+1E03C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL O
- U+1E03D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PE
- U+1E03E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ER
- U+1E03F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES
- U+1E040 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TE
- U+1E041 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL U
- U+1E042 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EF
- U+1E043 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL HA
- U+1E044 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TSE
- U+1E045 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL CHE
- U+1E046 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SHA
- U+1E047 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YERU
- U+1E048 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL E
- U+1E049 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YU
- U+1E04B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SCHWA
- U+1E04C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- U+1E04D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL JE
- U+1E04E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BARRED O
- U+1E04F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U
- U+1E050 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PALOCHKA
- U+1E051 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER A
- U+1E052 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BE
- U+1E053 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER VE
- U+1E054 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE
- U+1E055 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DE
- U+1E056 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER IE
- U+1E057 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZHE
- U+1E058 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZE
- U+1E059 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER I
- U+1E05A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER KA
- U+1E05B CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EL
- U+1E05C CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER O
- U+1E05D CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER PE
- U+1E05E CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ES
- U+1E05F CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER U
- U+1E060 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EF
- U+1E061 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HA
- U+1E062 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER TSE
- U+1E063 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHE
- U+1E064 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER SHA
- U+1E065 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
- U+1E066 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER YERU
- U+1E067 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN
- U+1E068 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- U+1E069 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZE
- U+1E06A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZHE
- U+1E06B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES WITH DESCENDER
- U+1E06D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U WITH STROKE
- U+1E08F COMBINING CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- Miscellaneous letters
- U+A7C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7C8 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7C9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7CA LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+AB66 LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+AB67 LATIN SMALL LETTER TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+AB68 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH MIDDLE TILDE
- Symbols
- U+2031 PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN
- U+203D INTERROBANG
- U+203E OVERLINE
- U+2042 ASTERISM
- U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET
- U+20C0 SOM SIGN
- U+218A TURNED DIGIT TWO
- U+218B TURNED DIGIT THREE
- U+21B6 ANTICLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW
- U+21B7 CLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW
- U+21BA ANTICLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- U+21BB CLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- U+2215 DIVISION SLASH
- U+2221 MEASURED ANGLE
- U+2227 LOGICAL AND
- U+2228 LOGICAL OR
- U+226E NOT LESS-THAN
- U+226F NOT GREATER-THAN
- U+2318 PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN
- U+25C9 FISHEYE
- U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE
- U+2610 BALLOT BOX
- U+2611 BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK
- U+2612 BALLOT BOX WITH X
- U+2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE
- U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE
- U+2713 CHECK MARK
- U+2717 BALLOT X
- U+27C2 PERPENDICULAR
- U+2AFD DOUBLE SOLIDUS OPERATOR
- U+2E3E WIGGLY VERTICAL LINE
- U+1F12F COPYLEFT SYMBOL
- U+1F610 NEUTRAL FACE
#### Improvements and fixes
- Kayan diacritics feature (cv79) now supported by TypeTuner Web
- Combining letters, modifier letters, superscripts, and subscripts have been made more consistent in size and weight
- Encoding fixed for U+1078E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED E
- Size increased for:
- U+02BE MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING
- U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING
- U+02D2 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED RIGHT HALF RING
- U+02D3 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED LEFT HALF RING
- U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR is now included in single-story/double-story features
- The combination of U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK forms a ligature
- Small cap form corrected for U+A78D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED H / U+0265 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H
- U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK repositioned to middle leg of U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M
- Diacritic positioning improved for U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- Diacritic positioning improved for U+2183 ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED
- Position of dot changed for U+1E23 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DOT ABOVE
#### Notes
- The next major version (7) will address some complex pending issues and features and may include substantial changes to line spacing, glyph metrics, kerning, and even font family structure. If you have any requests for future versions please contact us as soon as possible.
### 9 Feb 2022 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.101
This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6 fonts available on *TypeTuner Web*.
#### New
- The fonts now support SIL *TypeTuner*. Customized fonts can be created at *TypeTuner Web* (https://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi)
- New `locl` OpenType feature that supports Macedonian (MKD/mk) Cyrillic alternates
- Serbian and Macedonian alternates are also available through a new OpenType feature (cv84) for applications that do not support language-specific `locl` features
- Characters have been added to support Unicode versions up to 14.0.0 (more to be added in future releases):
- U+A7C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+A7C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH HOOK
- U+1DF00 LATIN SMALL LETTER FENG DIGRAPH WITH TRILL
- U+1DF01 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED SCRIPT G
- U+1DF02 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED G
- U+1DF03 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED K
- U+1DF05 LATIN SMALL LETTER LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF07 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED ENG
- U+1DF09 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF0A LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF0B LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR
- U+1DF0C LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR AND CURL
- U+1DF0D LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T WITH CURL
- U+1DF0E LATIN LETTER INVERTED GLOTTAL STOP WITH CURL
- U+1DF0F LATIN LETTER STRETCHED C WITH CURL
- U+1DF10 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED K
- U+1DF11 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH FISHHOOK
- U+1DF12 LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF13 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH BELT AND PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF14 LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF15 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF16 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK AND PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF17 LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF19 LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1B LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1C LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1D LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1E LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CURL
#### Improved
- The special-purpose modified fonts have been updated to be based on the current version. These are available at https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/ and include *Literacy* and *Compact* versions.
- U+02DE MODIFIER LETTER RHOTIC HOOK position improved with modifier vowels:
- U+02B8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y
- U+1D53 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL OPEN O
- U+1D5A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED M
- U+1DBA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED V
- Design improved for these characters:
- U+0184 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TONE SIX
- U+0185 LATIN SMALL LETTER TONE SIX
- The small caps feature (smcp) now supports more characters
- The spacing of Serbian italic alternates has been improved
#### Changed encoding
- The following characters were in the SIL PUA but have now been given Unicode assignments. The SIL PUA characters are now deprecated:
- U+A7C6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH PALATAL HOOK (was U+F234)
- U+10783 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL AE (was U+F1A1)
- U+1078F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E (was U+F1A4)
- U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN (was U+F1B5)
- U+10795 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH STROKE (was U+F1BC)
- U+107A0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y (was U+F1CE)
- U+107A2 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL O WITH STROKE (was U+F1AB)
- U+107A3 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OE (was U+F1AE)
- U+107B2 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Y (was U+F1B4)
- U+1088E NABATAEAN LETTER FINAL KAPH (was U+F1A3)
- U+1DF04 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT (was U+F268)
- U+1DF06 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y WITH BELT (was U+F267)
- U+1DF08 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND RETROFLEX HOOK (was U+F269)
- U+1DF18 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH PALATAL HOOK (was U+F235)
### 2 July 2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.001
- Reverted font Postscript name to that used in v5 and earlier to avoid
problems with unrecognized fonts when opening older documents.
### 29 Jun 2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.000
***Note that this is a major upgrade that may cause document reflow as
some glyphs widths have changed and some features have been removed.***
#### Removed
- **Removed DSIGs added in version 5.000.** These have now been removed
to reflect current best practice font development guidance. Adobe InDesign
will complain that fonts cannot be found if a document last saved with
version 5.000 is opened with version 5.960 or later installed. It will be
necessary to find/replace the fonts in the document using the command in
the Type menu. Please also look over the document carefully to note any
places where changes in the fonts have affected letterforms or spacing.
- **Graphite has been removed.** Application and OS support for OpenType
has greatly improved, so the need for Graphite in this font family is
greatly reduced. *If this affects you, and you find that OpenType does
not provide sufficient support for your needs, please contact us right
away.*
- Removed the "Show Invisibles" feature.
- Removed support for nine-level pitch contours. These will be replaced
by a standalone pitch contours font in the future.
#### Added
Characters added to support Unicode versions 7.0-13.0, including feature
support (e.g. small caps) where appropriate:
- U+03D1 GREEK THETA SYMBOL
- U+03F4 GREEK CAPITAL THETA SYMBOL
- U+1AB0 COMBINING DOUBLED CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
- U+1AB1 COMBINING DIAERESIS-RING
- U+1AB2 COMBINING INFINITY
- U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW
- U+1AB4 COMBINING TRIPLE DOT
- U+1AB5 COMBINING X-X BELOW
- U+1AB6 COMBINING WIGGLY LINE BELOW
- U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB9 COMBINING LIGHT CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW
- U+1ABA COMBINING STRONG CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW
- U+1DF5 COMBINING UP TACK ABOVE
- U+203B REFERENCE MARK
- U+20BE LARI SIGN
- U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN
- U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
- U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET
- U+2E13 DOTTED OBELOS
- U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
- U+2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
- U+2E22 TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E23 TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E24 BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E25 BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET
- U+A78F LATIN LETTER SINOLOGICAL DOT
- U+A7AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I
- U+A7AF LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q
- U+A7B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CHI
- U+A7B4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER BETA
- U+A7B5 LATIN SMALL LETTER BETA
- U+A7B6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA
- U+A7B7 LATIN SMALL LETTER OMEGA
- U+A7B8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH STROKE
- U+A7B9 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH STROKE
- U+AB30 LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED ALPHA
- U+AB53 LATIN SMALL LETTER CHI
- U+AB5C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG
- U+AB5E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE
- U+F26E CAPITAL RAMS HORN (in SIL PUA)
#### New
- First release that uses a UFO-based design and production workflow
- All sources are in open formats
- Build toolkit and workflow is completely open-source
- See https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Introduction.html
- Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats
- Applied new hinting techniques to try to improve screen rendering on Windows
- All-new documentation in HTML and PDF formats
- Features for controlling literacy forms of a and g separately
- Literacy a alternates (ss02)
- Literacy g alternates (ss03)
- Feature to support side-by-side rendering of U+0300 plus U+0301
- Kayan diacritics (cv79)
- Tone letter features (cv91 & cv92) now supported through OpenType
#### Fixes
- Width of typographic spaces have been made more consistent to reflect
common publishing industry usage. Note that this may affect line and page
lengths. Affected spaces:
- U+2000 EN QUAD (made width consistent)
- U+2001 EM QUAD (made width consistent)
- U+2007 FIGURE SPACE (made wider to match numerals in all styles)
- U+2009 THIN SPACE (made narrower)
- U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (made narrower)
- Fixed some small capital correspondences, including added support for clicks
- Fixed problems with spacing of tone letters
- Fixed missing or distorted Vietnamese composite glyphs
- Fixed miscellaneous distorted glyphs
- Improved miscellaneous anchor positions, including the position of diacritics
below glyphs with macrons below (e.g. U+1E0F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH LINE BELOW)
- Improved position of diacritics for superscripts and modifier letters
(including cedilla, ogonek, rhotic hook)
- Fixes and improvements to various glyphs:
- U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN (spacing)
- U+01E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH STROKE (bar position on single-story variant)
- U+02D6 MODIFIER LETTER PLUS SIGN (size)
- U+02DF MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT (size)
- U+02E4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP (form)
- U+033B COMBINING SQUARE BELOW (more rectangular)
- U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW (position fixes since beta 1)
- U+1D02 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED AE (made double-story in italic)
- U+1D15 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OU (form)
- U+1D46 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED AE (made double-story in italic)
- U+1D77 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED G (position)
- U+1D78 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN (form)
- U+1EFC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MIDDLE-WELSH V
- U+A76A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ET
- U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET
- U+A76C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IS
- U+A76D LATIN SMALL LETTER IS
- U+A77F LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G (position)
- U+A7F8 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL H WITH STROKE (form)
- U+A7FA LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED M (italic)
#### Known issues
- There is no support for TypeTuner or TypeTuner Web. We hope to add that support soon.
- There are no regional subsets. Please contact us if these are a priority for you and describe how you use them. We are reassessing whether to provide these subsets. With current web technology and WOFF2 compression most uses can be met equally well with the full fonts.
### 27 Oct 2014 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 5.000
- Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support
of previously Graphite-only features
- Added Character Variants to the font for OpenType support
of previously Graphite-only features
- Added Serbian feature when Serbian language is turned on
- Added hook D variant feature (for U+018A/U+0257)
- Removed "Show deprecated PUA" feature
- Removed "Romanian-style diacritics" feature
(because glyphs are now encoded)
- Removed "Diacritic selection" feature
- Added U+039E, U+03BC, U+03C6 and U+03C9 in the Greek and Coptic block
- Added U+0528..U+052F in the Cyrillic Supplement block
- Added U+2041 in the General Punctuation block
- Added U+2095..U+209C in the Superscripts and Subscripts block
- Added U+20B6..U+20BD in the Currency Symbols block
- Added U+210C, U+2113, U+2117, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F in the
Letterlike Symbols block
- Added U+2150..U+2152 and U+2189 in the Number Forms block
- Added U+2226, U+2234..U+2235, U+2262, U+2282..U+2287 in the
Mathematical Operators block
- Added U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F in the Miscellaneous Symbols block
- Added U+27E8..U+27E9 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block
- Added U+2C7E..U+2C7F in the Latin Extended-C block
- Added U+2C88 in the Coptic block
- Added U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E3A..U+2E3B in the Supplemental
Punctuation block
- Added U+A736..U+A73F, U+A742..U+A74D, U+A750..U+A787, U+A790..U+A7AD,
U+A7B0..U+A7B1, U+A7F7..U+A7FA in the Latin Extended-D block.
These were also added to relevant features.
- Added U+A92E in the Kayah Li block (to support the Kayah Li language
when using the Roman script)
- Added U+AB64..U+AB65 in the Latin Extended-E block
- Added U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D50F, U+1D514,
U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block
- Added PUA characters U+F26C (curl J) and U+F26D (left-hook b)
- Characters in our PUA that were added to Unicode have had their
codepoints updated:
F1AD>A7F9, F266>A78E, F26B>A78D, F32C>0526, F32D>0527, F17B>1DFD, F209>2C70
- These PUA characters were deprecated (now white on black glyphs):
U+F17B, U+F1AD, U+F209, U+F247, U+F248, U+F266, U+F26B, U+F32C, U+F32D
- Deleted U+0149 as it is officially deprecated in Unicode
- Added support for shorter macrons under narrow letters (i,l,r,t).
(This only works for Graphite or using precomposed characters in OpenType.)
- Made it possible for saltillo characters (U+A78B and U+A78C) to "carry"
diacritics
- Improved design of U+A722..U+A725 and U+A78D
- Refactored all cedilla positioning
- Removal of unneeded duplicate glyphs (because of improvements in smart
font code)
- Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Vietnamese
alternates and Small Caps
- Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Ogonek
alternates and Small Caps
- Improved hinting
- Significant size, position and metric changes made to Subscript and Superscript
parentheses, plus, minus, equals.
- Size of guillomets (U+00AB U+00BB U+2039 U+203A) modified to match the font.
Metrics were not changed.
- Arrowhead design of U+21A8 modified to match the other arrows
- Placement of Ogonek revisited
- Slight modification to positioning of U+0361 and U+035C in Italic and Bold Italic
- Changed the strongly curved hooks on Cyrillic U+04C3..U+04C4, U+04C7..U+04C8,
U+04FC..U+04FD, U+0512..U+0513 to be more consistent with other hooks
- Modified Cyrillic italic versions of U+04AF, U+04B1, U+04B5, U+04BC, U+04BE, U+04D8
- Modified design of U+A78D to be more curved and less squared
- Changed postscript names for U+0218 and U+0219
- Changed postscript names for U+2203, U+232A and U+2329
- "Hide tone contour staves" feature now works with single tonebar
- U+1DBF now follows weight and italic changes
- Allowed combining marks to render properly with U+02D0
- Removed AAT support
### 10 Jun 2013 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.114
- optimized Graphite code for faster processing of plain ASCII text
### 1 Aug 2012 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.112
- Changed Graphite feature identifiers from integers to 4-character
alphanumeric tags (no other changes)
### 12 Sep 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.110
- Removed the VDMX table
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
### 25 Aug 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.108
- Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.2 and 6.0
(using ttfremap)
- Encoded 1D29 (using ttfremap)
- Corrected problem with coverage tables (using ttfsortcover)
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
- Added device metric tables
- Added an empty dsig table
### 05 May 2009 (Alan Ward) Charis SIL version 4.106
- TypeTuner (Silt) table changed so that line metrics from legacy fonts
can be imported
### 20 Mar 2009 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.106
- Added support for Unicode 5.1 Latin and Cyrillic additions
- Other characters added: 0462, 0463, 0474, 0475, 0524, 0525, 20E5, 2203, 2204,
231C..U+231F, 2329, 232A, 239B..23AD, A722..U+A725
- Added PUA characters F26B, F32C, F32D
- Design changes: 002F, 00A1, 00BF, 02D0, 02ED, 02FF, 034B, 04A8, 04A9, 04BC,
04BD, 04BE, 04BF, 04E0, 04E1, 045F, 04AA, 04AB, F208, F209, 0358
- Fixed attachment points on 1D68, 1D69, 1D6A, 04FA, 04FB, fi and fl ligatures
- Fixed collision issues for Vietnamese glyphs 'with horn'
- Fixed advance of t-caron
- Feature modifications:
* new alternates added to feature ID 1033 and renamed from Small v-hook
alternate
to V-hook alternates
* new alternate U+2C65 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE added to
Literacy alternates feature
* default for Diacritic selection was changed from "on" to "off"
(by request of FieldWorks team)
- Added new features:
* Small Caps
* Non-European caron alternates
* Capital B-hook alternate
* Show deprecated PUA
- Slant italic bug fixed (dot on i was not disappearing with combining marks)
- Removal of about 700 unused glyphs (including precomposed chao tone letters
which were no longer needed since these are now dynamically created)
- 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
### 9 May 2008 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.104
- Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.1
(using ttfremap)
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
### 16 Aug 2007 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.102
- Modified the OpenType features so that InDesign's built-in small caps work
### 31 Jan 2007 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.100
- Added PUA character F26A
- Added 2308, 2309
- Removed Cyrillic italic alternates feature and added those 3 characters to the
slant italic specials feature
- Fixed bug in nine-level tones (in PUA) feature
- Made Chinantec tones larger, added 02C9 to this feature
- Fixed bug in GSUB table to work in Pango
### 15 Dec 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.0.04 beta 1 (Version 4.004)
- Beta release (should not be distributed!)
- Added support for Unicode 5 Latin and Cyrillic additions
- Other new chars: 2053, 211F, 2123, 2423, FE20..FE23
- Numerous new PUA characters
- Deprecated some existing PUA chars now added to Unicode
- New features:
- Open O alternate
- Chinantec tones
- Pitch contour tramlines
- Cyrillic italic alternates
- Tone bars no longer limited to 3 sequences (OpenType)
- Added glyphs for nine-level tones (in PUA)
- Design changes to some Greek, Cyrillic, ogonek and modifier glyphs,
particularly in italic faces
### 31 Jan 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.0.02 (Version 4.002)
- First version released under the SIL Open Font License
## Information for developers and contributors
We welcome other developers who wish to get involved in supporting and
enhancing these fonts or who want to modify them.
SILs fonts are licensed according to the terms of the SIL Open Font License
(https://openfontlicense.org). The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied,
modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves.
For details see the OFL.txt and OFL-FAQ.txt files in the package.
Full sources are included in this package. For information on the source
formats or how the fonts are built see documentation/developer.html.
## Acknowledgements
(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications
be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description
(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)
N: Walt Agee, Jon Coblentz, Sharon Correll, Lorna Evans, Victor Gaultney,
Bob Hallissy, Jonathan Kew, Martin Hosken, Miriam Martin, Annie Olsen,
David Raymond, Becca Spalinger, Alan Ward
E: https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/
W: https://software.sil.org/charis/
D: SIL designers and font engineers
The Charis project is maintained by SIL Global, a global,
faith-based nonprofit that works with local communities around the world
to develop language solutions that expand possibilities for a better life.
For more information or support please visit:
https://software.sil.org/charis/

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OFL FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about the SIL Open Font License (OFL)
Version 1.1-update7 - November 2023
The OFL FAQ is Copyright (c) 2005-2023, SIL International (https://www.sil.org)
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
(See https://openfontlicense.org/ofl-faq for updates)
CONTENTS OF THIS FAQ
1 USING AND DISTRIBUTING FONTS LICENSED UNDER THE OFL
2 USING OFL FONTS FOR WEBPAGES AND ONLINE WEBFONT SERVICES
3 MODIFYING OFL-LICENSED FONTS
4 LICENSING YOUR ORIGINAL FONTS UNDER THE OFL
5 CHOOSING RESERVED FONT NAMES
6 ABOUT THE FONTLOG
7 MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO OFL PROJECTS
8 ABOUT THE LICENSE ITSELF
9 ABOUT SIL INTERNATIONAL
APPENDIX A - FONTLOG EXAMPLE
1 USING AND DISTRIBUTING FONTS LICENSED UNDER THE OFL
1.1 Can I use the fonts for a book or other print publication, to create logos or other graphics, or even to manufacture objects based on their outlines?
Yes. You are very welcome to do so. Authors of fonts released under the OFL allow you to use their font software as such for any kind of design work. No additional license or permission is required, unlike with some other licenses. Some examples of these uses are: logos, posters, business cards, stationery, video titling, signage, t-shirts, personalised fabric, 3D-printed/laser-cut shapes, sculptures, rubber stamps, cookie cutters and lead type.
1.1.1 Does that restrict the license or distribution of that artwork?
No. You remain the author and copyright holder of that newly derived graphic or object. You are simply using an open font in the design process. It is only when you redistribute, bundle or modify the font itself that other conditions of the license have to be respected (see below for more details).
1.1.2 Is any kind of acknowledgement required?
No. Font authors may appreciate being mentioned in your artwork's acknowledgements alongside the name of the font, possibly with a link to their website, but that is not required.
1.2 Can the fonts be included with Free/Libre and Open Source Software collections such as GNU/Linux and BSD distributions and repositories?
Yes! Fonts licensed under the OFL can be freely included alongside other software under FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) licenses. Since fonts are typically aggregated with, not merged into, existing software, there is little need to be concerned about incompatibility with existing software licenses. You may also repackage the fonts and the accompanying components in a .rpm or .deb package (or other similar package formats or installers) and include them in distribution CD/DVDs and online repositories. (Also see entry 5.9 about rebuilding from source.)
1.3 I want to distribute the fonts with my program, does this mean my program also has to be Free/Libre and Open Source Software?
No. Only the portions based on the Font Software are required to be released under the OFL. The intent of the license is to allow aggregation or bundling with software under restricted licensing as well.
1.4 Can I sell a software package that includes these fonts?
Yes, you can do this with both the Original Version and a Modified Version of the fonts. Examples of bundling made possible by the OFL would include: text editors, word processors, design and publishing applications, training and educational software, games and entertainment software, mobile device applications, etc.
1.5 Can I include the fonts on a CD of freeware or commercial fonts?
Yes, as long some other font or software is also on the disk, so the OFL font is not sold by itself.
1.6 Why won't the OFL let me sell the fonts alone?
The intent is to keep people from making money by simply redistributing the fonts. The only people who ought to profit directly from the fonts should be the original authors, and those authors have kindly given up potential direct income to distribute their fonts under the OFL. Please honour and respect their contribution!
1.7 What about sharing OFL fonts with friends on a CD, DVD or USB stick?
You are very welcome to share open fonts with friends, family and colleagues through removable media. Just remember to include the full font package, including any copyright notices and licensing information as available in OFL.txt. In the case where you sell the font, it has to come bundled with software.
1.8 Can I host the fonts on a website for others to use?
Yes, as long as you make the full font package available. In most cases it may be best to point users to the main site that distributes the Original Version so they always get the most recent stable and complete version. See also discussion of webfonts in Section 2.
1.9 Can I host the fonts on a server for use over our internal network?
Yes. If the fonts are transferred from the server to the client computer by means that allow them to be used even if the computer is no longer attached to the network, the full package (copyright notices, licensing information, etc.) should be included.
1.10 Does the full OFL license text always need to accompany the font?
The only situation in which an OFL font can be distributed without the text of the OFL (either in a separate file or in font metadata), is when a font is embedded in a document or bundled within a program. In the case of metadata included within a font, it is legally sufficient to include only a link to the text of the OFL on https://openfontlicense.org, but we strongly recommend against this. Most modern font formats include metadata fields that will accept the full OFL text, and full inclusion increases the likelihood that users will understand and properly apply the license.
1.11 What do you mean by 'embedding'? How does that differ from other means of distribution?
By 'embedding' we mean inclusion of the font in a document or file in a way that makes extraction (and redistribution) difficult or clearly discouraged. In many cases the names of embedded fonts might also not be obvious to those reading the document, the font data format might be altered, and only a subset of the font - only the glyphs required for the text - might be included. Any other means of delivering a font to another person is considered 'distribution', and needs to be accompanied by any copyright notices and licensing information available in OFL.txt.
1.12 So can I embed OFL fonts in my document?
Yes, either in full or a subset. The restrictions regarding font modification and redistribution do not apply, as the font is not intended for use outside the document.
1.13 Does embedding alter the license of the document itself?
No. Referencing or embedding an OFL font in any document does not change the license of the document itself. The requirement for fonts to remain under the OFL does not apply to any document created using the fonts and their derivatives. Similarly, creating any kind of graphic using a font under the OFL does not make the resulting artwork subject to the OFL.
1.14 If OFL fonts are extracted from a document in which they are embedded (such as a PDF file), what can be done with them? Is this a risk to author(s)?
The few utilities that can extract fonts embedded in a PDF will typically output limited amounts of outlines - not a complete font. To create a working font from this method is much more difficult and time consuming than finding the source of the original OFL font. So there is little chance that an OFL font would be extracted and redistributed inappropriately through this method. Even so, copyright laws address any misrepresentation of authorship. All Font Software released under the OFL and marked as such by the author(s) is intended to remain under this license regardless of the distribution method, and cannot be redistributed under any other license. We strongly discourage any font extraction - we recommend directly using the font sources instead - but if you extract font outlines from a document, please be considerate: respect the work of the author(s) and the licensing model.
1.15 What about distributing fonts with a document? Within a compressed folder structure? Is it distribution, bundling or embedding?
Certain document formats may allow the inclusion of an unmodified font within their file structure which may consist of a compressed folder containing the various resources forming the document (such as pictures and thumbnails). Including fonts within such a structure is understood as being different from embedding but rather similar to bundling (or mere aggregation) which the license explicitly allows. In this case the font is conveyed unchanged whereas embedding a font usually transforms it from the original format. The OFL does not allow anyone to extract the font from such a structure to then redistribute it under another license. The explicit permission to redistribute and embed does not cancel the requirement for the Font Software to remain under the license chosen by its author(s). Even if the font travels inside the document as one of its assets, it should not lose its authorship information and licensing.
1.16 What about ebooks shipping with open fonts?
The requirements differ depending on whether the fonts are linked, embedded or distributed (bundled or aggregated). Some ebook formats use web technologies to do font linking via @font-face, others are designed for font embedding, some use fonts distributed with the document or reading software, and a few rely solely on the fonts already present on the target system. The license requirements depend on the type of inclusion as discussed in 1.15.
1.17 Can Font Software released under the OFL be subject to URL-based access restrictions methods or DRM (Digital Rights Management) mechanisms?
Yes, but these issues are out of scope for the OFL. The license itself neither encourages their use nor prohibits them since such mechanisms are not implemented in the components of the Font Software but through external software. Such restrictions are put in place for many different purposes corresponding to various usage scenarios. One common example is to limit potentially dangerous cross-site scripting attacks. However, in the spirit of libre/open fonts and unrestricted writing systems, we strongly encourage open sharing and reuse of OFL fonts, and the establishment of an environment where such restrictions are unnecessary. Note that whether you wish to use such mechanisms or you prefer not to, you must still abide by the rules set forth by the OFL when using fonts released by their authors under this license. Derivative fonts must be licensed under the OFL, even if they are part of a service for which you charge fees and/or for which access to source code is restricted. You may not sell the fonts on their own - they must be part of a larger software package, bundle or subscription plan. For example, even if the OFL font is distributed in a software package or via an online service using a DRM mechanism, the user would still have the right to extract that font, use, study, modify and redistribute it under the OFL.
1.18 I've come across a font released under the OFL. How can I easily get more information about the Original Version? How can I know where it stands compared to the Original Version or other Modified Versions?
Consult the copyright statement(s) in the license for ways to contact the original authors. Consult the FONTLOG (see section 6 for more details and examples) for information on how the font differs from the Original Version, and get in touch with the various contributors via the information in the acknowledgement section. Please consider using the Original Versions of the fonts whenever possible.
1.19 What do you mean in condition 4 of the OFL's permissions and conditions? Can you provide examples of abusive promotion / endorsement / advertisement vs. normal acknowledgement?
The intent is that the goodwill and reputation of the author(s) should not be used in a way that makes it sound like the original author(s) endorse or approve of a specific Modified Version or software bundle. For example, it would not be right to advertise a word processor by naming the author(s) in a listing of software features, or to promote a Modified Version on a website by saying "designed by ...". However, it would be appropriate to acknowledge the author(s) if your software package has a list of people who deserve thanks. We realize that this can seem to be a grey area, but the standard used to judge an acknowledgement is that if the acknowledgement benefits the author(s) it is allowed, but if it primarily benefits other parties, or could reflect poorly on the author(s), then it is not.
1.20 I'm writing a small app for mobile platforms, do I need to include the whole package?
If you bundle a font under the OFL with your mobile app you must comply with the terms of the license. At a minimum you must include the copyright statement, the license notice and the license text. A mention of this information in your About box or Changelog, with a link to where the font package is from, is good practice, and the extra space needed to carry these items is very small. You do not, however, need to include the full contents of the font package - only the fonts you use and the copyright and license that apply to them. For example, if you only use the regular weight in your app, you do not need to include the italic and bold versions.
1.21 What about including OFL fonts by default in my firmware or dedicated operating system?
Many such systems are restricted and turned into appliances so that users cannot study or modify them. Using open fonts to increase quality and language coverage is a great idea, but you need to be aware that if there is a way for users to extract fonts you cannot legally prevent them from doing that. The fonts themselves, including any changes you make to them, must be distributed under the OFL even if your firmware has a more restrictive license. If you do transform the fonts and change their formats when you include them in your firmware you must respect any names reserved by the font authors via the RFN mechanism and pick your own font name. Alternatively if you directly add a font under the OFL to the font folder of your firmware without modifying or optimizing it you are simply bundling the font like with any other software collection, and do not need to make any further changes.
1.22 Can I make and publish CMS themes or templates that use OFL fonts? Can I include the fonts themselves in the themes or templates? Can I sell the whole package?
Yes, you are very welcome to integrate open fonts into themes and templates for your preferred CMS and make them more widely available. Remember that you can only sell the fonts and your CMS add-on as part of a software bundle. (See entry 1.4 for details and examples about selling bundles).
1.23 Can OFL fonts be included in services that deliver fonts to the desktop from remote repositories? Even if they contain both OFL and non-OFL fonts?
Yes. Some foundries have set up services to deliver fonts to subscribers directly to desktops from their online repositories; similarly, plugins are available to preview and use fonts directly in your design tool or publishing suite. These services may mix open and restricted fonts in the same channel, however they should make a clear distinction between them to users. These services should also not hinder users (such as through DRM or obfuscation mechanisms) from extracting and using the OFL fonts in other environments, or continuing to use OFL fonts after subscription terms have ended, as those uses are specifically allowed by the OFL.
1.24 Can services that provide or distribute OFL fonts restrict my use of them?
No. The terms of use of such services cannot replace or restrict the terms of the OFL, as that would be the same as distributing the fonts under a different license, which is not allowed. You are still entitled to use, modify and redistribute them as the original authors have intended outside of the sole control of that particular distribution channel. Note, however, that the fonts provided by these services may differ from the Original Versions.
1.25 Can a font released under the OFL be used as a source by an AI (Artificial Intelligence), an ML (Machine Learning) model, a NN (neural network), or similar system to create a new font and release it under a different license?
No. Any font produced from such systems whose input or training data contains any source file from a font project licensed under the OFL should be considered a derivative work. All Font Software released under the OFL and marked as such by the author(s) must remain under the OFL regardless of the way the sources might have been transformed, in whole or in part. If you would like to use font sources to produce a font to be released under a different license, then you need to contact the corresponding authors directly to ask for their explicit permission.
1.26 Can OFL fonts be used by AI-based design tools?
Yes, as long as the resulting work is not intended to be a font. Using such automated systems to produce graphical output - something that is not a font - is considered similar to normal usage. It is equivalent to using an OFL font in the graphic design process as discussed in question 1.1.
2 USING OFL FONTS FOR WEBPAGES AND ONLINE WEBFONT SERVICES
NOTE: This section often refers to a separate paper on 'Webfonts and Reserved Font Names'. This is available at https://openfontlicense.org/webfonts-and-reserved-font-names
2.1 Can I make webpages using OFL fonts?
Yes! Go ahead! You could ask visitors to download and install the fonts, but loading the fonts dynamically as webfonts through CSS @font-face declarations is a much better method. The referenced fonts can be hosted on the same server as other site assets and content, or loaded from a separate webfont service. This is recommended and explicitly allowed by the licensing model because it is distribution.
2.2 Can I make and use WOFF (Web Open Font Format) versions of OFL fonts?
Yes, but you need to be careful. A change in font format normally is considered modification, and Reserved Font Names (RFNs) cannot be used. Because of the design of the WOFF and WOFF2 formats, however, it is possible to create a WOFF/WOFF2 version that is not considered modification, and so would not require a name change.
2.2.1 How can I make sure that a WOFF/WOFF2 version is not considered modification?
You are allowed to create, use and distribute a WOFF version of an OFL font without changing the font name, but only if the original font data remains unchanged except for WOFF compression, and WOFF-specific metadata is either omitted altogether or present and includes, unaltered, the contents of all equivalent metadata in the original font.
2.2.2 Do WOFF conversion tools and services automatically meet these requirements?
No. Some WOFF conversion tools and online services do not meet the two requirements listed above, and so their output must be considered a Modified Version. So be very careful and check to be sure that the tool or service you're using is compressing unchanged data and completely and accurately reflecting the original font metadata.
2.3 What about other webfont formats such as EOT/EOTLite/CWT/etc.?
In most cases these formats alter the original font data more than WOFF, and do not completely support appropriate metadata, so their use must be considered modification and RFNs may not be used. However, there may be certain formats or usage scenarios that may allow the use of RFNs. See https://openfontlicense.org/webfonts-and-reserved-font-names
2.4 Can I make OFL fonts available through webfont online services?
Yes, you are welcome to include OFL fonts in online webfont services as long as you properly meet all the conditions of the license. The origin and open status of the font should be clear among the other fonts you are hosting. Authorship, copyright notices and license information must be sufficiently visible to your users or subscribers so they know where the font comes from and the rights granted by the author(s). Make sure the font file contains the needed copyright notice(s) and licensing information in its metadata. Please double-check the accuracy of every field to prevent contradictory information. Other font formats, including EOT/EOTLite/CWT and superior alternatives like WOFF, already provide fields for this information. Remember that if you modify the font within your library or convert it to another format for any reason the OFL restrictions apply and you need to change the names accordingly. Please respect the author's wishes as expressed in the OFL and do not misrepresent original designers and their work. Don't lump quality open fonts together with dubious freeware or public domain fonts. Consider how you can best work with the original designers and foundries, support their efforts and generate goodwill that will benefit your service. (See entry 1.17 for details related to URL-based access restrictions methods or DRM mechanisms).
2.5 Some webfont formats and services provide ways of 'optimizing' the font for a particular website or web application; is that allowed?
Yes, it is permitted, but remember that these optimized versions are Modified Versions and so must follow OFL requirements like appropriate renaming. Also you need to bear in mind the other important parameters beyond compression, speed and responsiveness: you need to consider the audience of your particular website or web application, as choosing some optimization parameters may turn out to be less than ideal for them. Subsetting by removing certain glyphs or features may seriously limit functionality of the font in various languages that your users expect. It may also introduce degradation of quality in the rendering or specific bugs on the various target platforms compared to the original font from upstream. In other words, remember that one person's optimized font may be another person's missing feature. Various advanced typographic features (OpenType, Graphite or AAT) are also available through CSS and may provide the desired effects without the need to modify the font.
2.6 Is subsetting a webfont considered modification?
Yes. Removing any parts of the font when delivering a webfont to a browser, including unused glyphs and smart font code, is considered modification. This is permitted by the OFL but would not normally allow the use of RFNs. Some newer subsetting technologies may be able to subset in a way that allows users to effectively have access to the complete font, including smart font behaviour. See entry 2.8 and https://openfontlicense.org/webfonts-and-reserved-font-names
2.7 Are there any situations in which a modified webfont could use RFNs?
Yes. If a webfont is optimized only in ways that preserve Functional Equivalence (see entry 2.8), then it may use RFNs, as it reasonably represents the Original Version and respects the intentions of the author(s) and the main purposes of the RFN mechanism (avoids collisions, protects authors, minimizes support, encourages derivatives). However this is technically very difficult and often impractical, so a much better scenario is for the webfont service or provider to sign a separate agreement with the author(s) that allows the use of RFNs for Modified Versions.
2.8 How do you know if an optimization to a webfont preserves Functional Equivalence?
Functional Equivalence is described in full in the 'Webfonts and Reserved Font Names' paper at https://openfontlicense.org/webfonts-and-reserved-font-names, in general, an optimized font is deemed to be Functionally Equivalent (FE) to the Original Version if it:
- Supports the same full character inventory. If a character can be properly displayed using the Original Version, then that same character, encoded correctly on a webpage, will display properly.
- Provides the same smart font behavior. Any dynamic shaping behavior that works with the Original Version should work when optimized, unless the browser or environment does not support it. There does not need to be guaranteed support in the client, but there should be no forced degradation of smart font or shaping behavior, such as the removal or obfuscation of OpenType, Graphite or AAT tables.
- Presents text with no obvious degradation in visual quality. The lettershapes should be equally (or more) readable, within limits of the rendering platform.
- Preserves original author, project and license metadata. At a minimum, this should include: Copyright and authorship; The license as stated in the Original Version, whether that is the full text of the OFL or a link to the web version; Any RFN declarations; Information already present in the font or documentation that points back to the Original Version, such as a link to the project or the author's website.
If an optimized font meets these requirements, and so is considered to be FE, then it's very likely that the original author would feel that the optimized font is a good and reasonable equivalent. If it falls short of any of these requirements, the optimized font does not reasonably represent the Original Version, and so should be considered to be a Modified Version. Like other Modified Versions, it would not be allowed to use any RFNs and you simply need to pick your own font name.
2.9 Can fonts released under the OFL be used with Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) or similar on-the-fly subsetting and compression technologies?
Yes, if they provide a sufficient level of Functional Equivalence. Extra care should be taken to make sure that such processes - both on the server and on the client - do not break glyph coverage and smart features especially for lesser-known and lesser-resourced languages in the resulting document or app. See the 'Webfonts and Reserved Font Names' paper on https://openfontlicense.org/webfonts-and-reserved-font-names for more about the goals and the rationale.
2.10 Isn't use of webfonts another form of embedding?
No. Unlike embedded fonts in a PDF, webfonts are not an integrated part of the document itself. They are not specific to a single document and are often applied to thousands of documents around the world. The font data is not stored alongside the document data and often originates from a different location. The ease by which the webfonts used by a document may be identified and downloaded for desktop use demonstrates that they are philosophically and technically separate from the webpages that specify them. See https://openfontlicense.org/webfonts-and-reserved-font-names
2.11 So would it be better to not use RFNs at all if you want your font to be distributed by a webfont service?
No. Although the OFL does not require authors to use RFNs, the RFN mechanism is an important part of the OFL model and completely compatible with webfont services. If that webfont service modifies the fonts, then the best solution is to sign a separate agreement for the use of any RFNs. It is perfectly valid for an author to not declare any RFNs, but before they do so they need to fully understand the benefits they are giving up, and the overall negative effect of allowing many different versions bearing the same name to be widely distributed. As a result, we don't generally recommend it.
2.12 What should an agreement for the use of RFNs say? Are there any examples?
There is no prescribed format for this agreement, as legal systems vary, and no recommended examples. Authors may wish to add specific clauses to further restrict use, require author review of Modified Versions, establish user support mechanisms or provide terms for ending the agreement. Such agreements are usually not public, and apply only to the main parties. However, it would be very beneficial for webfont services to clearly state when they have established such agreements, so that the public understands clearly that their service is operating appropriately.
See the separate paper on 'Webfonts and Reserved Font Names' for in-depth discussion of issues related to the use of RFNs for webfonts. This is available at https://openfontlicense.org/webfonts-and-reserved-font-names
3 MODIFYING OFL-LICENSED FONTS
3.1 Can I change the fonts? Are there any limitations to what things I can and cannot change?
You are allowed to change anything, as long as such changes do not violate the terms of the license. In other words, you are not allowed to remove the copyright statement(s) from the font, but you could put additional information into it that covers your contribution. See the placeholders in the OFL header template for recommendations on where to add your own statements. (Remember that, when authors have reserved names via the RFN mechanism, you need to change the internal names of the font to your own font name when making your modified version even if it is just a small change.)
3.2 I have a font that needs a few extra glyphs - can I take them from an OFL licensed font and copy them into mine?
Yes, but if you distribute that font to others it must be under the OFL, and include the information mentioned in condition 2 of the license.
3.3 Can I charge people for my additional work? In other words, if I add a bunch of special glyphs or OpenType/Graphite/AAT code, can I sell the enhanced font?
Not by itself. Derivative fonts must be released under the OFL and cannot be sold by themselves. It is permitted, however, to include them in a larger software package (such as text editors, office suites or operating systems), even if the larger package is sold. In that case, you are strongly encouraged, but not required, to also make that derived font easily and freely available outside of the larger package.
3.4 Can I pay someone to enhance the fonts for my use and distribution?
Yes. This is a good way to fund the further development of the fonts. Keep in mind, however, that if the font is distributed to others it must be under the OFL. You won't be able to recover your investment by exclusively selling the font, but you will be making a valuable contribution to the community. Please remember how you have benefited from the contributions of others.
3.5 I need to make substantial revisions to the font to make it work with my program. It will be a lot of work, and a big investment, and I want to be sure that it can only be distributed with my program. Can I restrict its use?
No. If you redistribute a Modified Version of the font it must be under the OFL. You may not restrict it in any way beyond what the OFL permits and requires. This is intended to ensure that all released improvements to the fonts become available to everyone. But you will likely get an edge over competitors by being the first to distribute a bundle with the enhancements. Again, please remember how you have benefited from the contributions of others.
3.6 Do I have to make any derivative fonts (including extended source files, build scripts, documentation, etc.) publicly available?
No, but please consider sharing your improvements with others. You may find that you receive in return more than what you gave.
3.7 If a trademark is claimed in the OFL font, does that trademark need to remain in modified fonts?
Yes. Any trademark notices must remain in any derivative fonts to respect trademark laws, but you may add any additional trademarks you claim, officially registered or not. For example if an OFL font called "Foo" contains a notice that "Foo is a trademark of Acme", then if you rename the font to "Bar" when creating a Modified Version, the new trademark notice could say "Foo is a trademark of Acme Inc. - Bar is a trademark of Roadrunner Technologies Ltd.". Trademarks work alongside the OFL and are not subject to the terms of the licensing agreement. The OFL does not grant any rights under trademark law. Bear in mind that trademark law varies from country to country and that there are no international trademark conventions as there are for copyright. You may need to significantly invest in registering and defending a trademark for it to remain valid in the countries you are interested in. This may be costly for an individual independent designer.
3.8 If I commit changes to a font (or publish a branch in a DVCS) as part of a public open source software project, do I have to change the internal font names?
Only if there are declared RFNs. Making a public commit or publishing a public branch is effectively redistributing your modifications, so any change to the font will require that you do not use the RFNs. Even if there are no RFNs, it may be useful to change the name or add a suffix indicating that a particular version of the font is still in development and not released yet. This will clearly indicate to users and fellow designers that this particular font is not ready for release yet. See section 5 for more details.
4 LICENSING YOUR ORIGINAL FONTS UNDER THE OFL
4.1 Can I use the SIL OFL for my own fonts?
Yes! We heartily encourage everyone to use the OFL to distribute their own original fonts. It is a carefully constructed license that allows great freedom along with enough artistic integrity protection for the work of the authors as well as clear rules for other contributors and those who redistribute the fonts. The licensing model is used successfully by various organisations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, to release fonts of varying levels of scope and complexity.
4.2 What do I have to do to apply the OFL to my font?
If you want to release your fonts under the OFL, we recommend you do the following:
4.2.1 Put your copyright and Reserved Font Names information at the beginning of the main OFL.txt file in place of the dedicated placeholders (marked with the <> characters). Include this file in your release package.
4.2.2 Put your copyright and the OFL text with your chosen Reserved Font Name(s) into your font files (the copyright and license fields). A link to the OFL text on the OFL website is an acceptable (but not recommended) alternative. Also add this information to any other components (build scripts, glyph databases, documentation, test files, etc). Accurate metadata in your font files is beneficial to you as an increasing number of applications are exposing this information to the user. For example, clickable links can bring users back to your website and let them know about other work you have done or services you provide. Depending on the format of your fonts and sources, you can use template human-readable headers or machine-readable metadata. You should also double-check that there is no conflicting metadata in the font itself contradicting the license, such as the fstype bits in the os2 table or fields in the name table.
4.2.3 Write an initial FONTLOG.txt for your font and include it in the release package (see Section 6 and Appendix A for details including a template).
4.2.4 Include the relevant practical documentation on the license by adding the current OFL-FAQ.txt file in your package.
4.2.5 If you wish you can use the OFL graphics (https://openfontlicense.org/promotion) on your website.
4.3 Will you make my font OFL for me?
We won't do the work for you. We can, however, try to answer your questions. Unfortunately we do not have the resources to review and check your font packages for correct use of the OFL. We recommend you turn to designers, foundries or consulting companies with experience in doing open font design to provide this service to you.
4.4 Will you distribute my OFL font for me?
No. The easiest way for users to always get the most current version of the font is for you to distribute it through your own website. You can also distribute your own font source files, or host them on services such as GitHub or GitLab. You can use various channels, including social media, to promote and get attention to your project. If you want someone else to distribute the font, consider services and sites that already distribute OFL fonts. Some of those are listed on the OFL website (https://openfontlicense.org/ofl-fonts). Contact them to find out how to submit fonts to them. We do not endorse any particular catalog or hosting service. It is your responsibility to determine if the service is right for you and if it treats authors with fairness.
4.5 Why should I use the OFL for my fonts?
Here are a few of the many good reasons:
- to meet needs for fonts that can be modified to support lesser-known languages
- to provide a legal and clear way for people to respect your work but still use it (and reduce piracy)
- to involve others in your font project
- to enable your fonts to be expanded with new weights and improved writing system/language support
- to allow more technical font developers to add features to your design (such as OpenType, Graphite or AAT support)
- to renew the life of an old font lying on your hard drive with no business model
- to allow your font to be included in Libre Software operating systems like Ubuntu
- to give your font world status and wide, unrestricted distribution
- to educate students about quality typeface and font design
- to expand your test base and get more useful feedback
- to extend your reach to new markets when users see your metadata and go to your website
- to get your font more easily into one of the webfont online services
- to attract attention for your commercial fonts
- to make money through webfont services
- to make money by bundling fonts with applications
- to make money adjusting and extending existing open fonts
- to get a better chance that foundations, NGOs, charities, or companies who commission fonts will pick you
- to be part of a sharing design and development community
- to give back and contribute to a growing body of font sources
4.6 Can I cancel or undo the OFL license for a font that I've already released under it?
No, as an author, you cannot cancel or undo the permissions you have granted earlier by releasing a font under the OFL. But as an original author of that specific font you can always re-release it separately under another license of your own choosing. Of course, you cannot re-license a font for which you are not the author. If there are multiple authors they need to be all in official written agreement with the re-licensing. For practical reasons, a different name than an existing and publicly available open font should be chosen.
4.7 Should I apply the OFL early in the design process, even before the font is complete, or wait until I want to release a completed version?
It is really up to you and the circumstances of your project. But in any case, we would recommend you place appropriate warning messages in your public repository or website to say something like "Please wait for a finished release before using and redistributing this font". We recommend you have a clear versioning scheme and repository tagging to make it as easy as possible to see if the font is a released version or still under development. You can also consider choosing a separate name (or suffix) for the development version, and only give the final name to a released version.
5 CHOOSING RESERVED FONT NAMES
5.1 What are Reserved Font Names?
These are font names, or portions of font names, that the author has chosen to reserve for use only with the Original Version of the font, or for Modified Version(s) created by the original author.
5.2 Why can't I use the Reserved Font Names in my derivative font names? I'd like people to know where the design came from.
The best way to acknowledge the source of the design is to thank the original authors and any other contributors in the files that are distributed with your revised font (although no acknowledgement is required). The FONTLOG is a natural place to do this. Reserved Font Names ensure that the only fonts that have the original names are the unmodified Original Versions. This allows designers to maintain artistic integrity while allowing collaboration to happen. It eliminates potential confusion and name conflicts. When choosing a name, be creative and avoid names that reuse almost all the same letters in the same order or sound like the original. It will help everyone if Original Versions and Modified Versions can easily be distinguished from one another and from other derivatives. Any substitution and matching mechanism is outside the scope of the license.
5.3 What do you mean by "primary name as presented to the user"? Are you referring to the font menu name?
Yes, this applies to the font menu name and other mechanisms that specify a font in a document. It would be fine, however, to keep a text reference to the original fonts in the description field, in your modified source file or in documentation provided alongside your derivative as long as no one could be confused that your modified source is the original. But you cannot use the Reserved Font Names in any way to identify the font to the user (unless the Copyright Holder(s) allow(s) it through a separate agreement). Users who install derivatives (Modified Versions) on their systems should not see any of the original Reserved Font Names in their font menus, for example. Again, this is to ensure that users are not confused and do not mistake one font for another and so expect features only another derivative or the Original Version can actually offer.
5.4 Am I not allowed to use any part of the Reserved Font Names?
You may not use individual words from the Reserved Font Names, but you would be allowed to use parts of words, as long as you do not use any word from the Reserved Font Names entirely. We do not recommend using parts of words because of potential confusion, but it is allowed. For example, if "Foobar" was a Reserved Font Name, you would be allowed to use "Foo" or "bar", although we would not recommend it. Such an unfortunate choice would confuse the users of your fonts as well as make it harder for other designers to contribute.
5.5 So what should I, as an author, identify as Reserved Font Names?
Original authors are encouraged to name their fonts using clear, distinct names, and only declare the unique parts of the name as Reserved Font Names. For example, the author of a font called "Foobar Sans" would declare "Foobar" as a Reserved Font Name, but not "Sans", as that is a common typographical term, and may be a useful word to use in a derivative font name. Reserved Font Names should also be single words for simplicity and legibility. A font called "Flowing River" should have Reserved Font Names "Flowing" and "River", not "Flowing River". You also need to be very careful about reserving font names which are already linked to trademarks (whether registered or not) which you do not own.
5.6 Do I, as an author, have to identify any Reserved Font Names?
No. RFNs are optional and not required, but we encourage you to use them. This is primarily to avoid confusion between your work and Modified Versions. As an author you can release a font under the OFL and not declare any Reserved Font Names. There may be situations where you find that using no RFNs and letting your font be changed and modified - including any kind of modification - without having to change the original name is desirable. However you need to be fully aware of the consequences. There will be no direct way for end-users and other designers to distinguish your Original Version from many Modified Versions that may be created. You have to trust whoever is making the changes and the optimizations to not introduce problematic changes. The RFNs you choose for your own creation have value to you as an author because they allow you to maintain artistic integrity and keep some control over the distribution channel to your end-users. For discussion of RFNs and webfonts see section 2.
5.7 Are any names (such as the main font name) reserved by default?
No. That is a change to the license as of version 1.1. If you want any names to be Reserved Font Names, they must be specified after the copyright statement(s).
5.8 Is there any situation in which I can use Reserved Font Names for a Modified Version?
The Copyright Holder(s) can give certain trusted parties the right to use any of the Reserved Font Names through separate written agreements. For example, even if "Foobar" is an RFN, you could write up an agreement to give company "XYZ" the right to distribute a modified version with a name that includes "Foobar". This allows for freedom without confusion. The existence of such an agreement should be made as clear as possible to downstream users and designers in the distribution package and the relevant documentation. They need to know if they are a party to the agreement or not and what they are practically allowed to do or not even if all the details of the agreement are not public.
5.9 Do font rebuilds require a name change? Do I have to change the name of the font when my packaging workflow includes a full rebuild from source?
Yes, all rebuilds which change the font data and the smart code are Modified Versions and the requirements of the OFL apply: you need to respect what the Author(s) have chosen in terms of Reserved Font Names. However if a package (or installer) is simply a wrapper or a compressed structure around the final font - leaving them intact on the inside - then no name change is required. Please get in touch with the author(s) and copyright holder(s) to inquire about the presence of font sources beyond the final font file(s) and the recommended build path. That build path may very well be non-trivial and hard to reproduce accurately by the maintainer. If a full font build path is made available by the upstream author(s) please be aware that any regressions and changes you may introduce when doing a rebuild for packaging purposes is your own responsibility as a package maintainer since you are effectively creating a separate branch. You should make it very clear to your users that your rebuilt version is not the canonical one from upstream.
5.10 Can I add other Reserved Font Names when making a derivative font?
Yes. List your additional Reserved Font Names after your additional copyright statement, as indicated with example placeholders at the top of the OFL.txt file. Be sure you do not remove any existing RFNs but only add your own. RFN statements should be placed next to the copyright statement of the relevant author as indicated in the OFL.txt template to make them visible to designers wishing to make their separate version.
6 ABOUT THE FONTLOG
6.1 What is this FONTLOG thing exactly?
It has three purposes: 1) to provide basic information on the font to users and other designers and developers, 2) to document changes that have been made to the font or accompanying files, either by the original authors or others, and 3) to provide a place to acknowledge authors and other contributors. Please use it!
6.2 Is the FONTLOG required?
It is not a requirement of the license, but we strongly recommend you have one.
6.3 Am I required to update the FONTLOG when making Modified Versions?
No, but users, designers and other developers might get very frustrated with you if you don't. People need to know how derivative fonts differ from the original, and how to take advantage of the changes, or build on them. There are utilities that can help create and maintain a FONTLOG.
6.4 What should the FONTLOG look like?
It is typically a separate text file (FONTLOG.txt), but can take other formats. It commonly includes these four sections:
- brief header describing the FONTLOG itself and name of the font family
- Basic Font Information - description of the font family, purpose and breadth
- ChangeLog - chronological listing of changes
- Acknowledgements - list of authors and contributors with contact information
It could also include other sections, such as: where to find documentation, how to make contributions, information on contributing organizations, source code details, and a short design guide. See Appendix A for an example FONTLOG.
7 MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO OFL PROJECTS
7.1 Can I contribute work to OFL projects?
In many cases, yes. It is common for OFL fonts to be developed by a team of people who welcome contributions from the wider community. Contact the original authors for specific information on how to participate in their projects.
7.2 Why should I contribute my changes back to the original authors?
It would benefit many people if you contributed back in response to what you've received. Your contributions and improvements to the fonts and other components could be a tremendous help and would encourage others to contribute as well and 'give back'. You will then benefit from other people's contributions as well. Sometimes maintaining your own separate version takes more effort than merging back with the original. Be aware that any contributions, however, must be either your own original creation or work that you own, and you may be asked to affirm that clearly when you contribute.
7.3 I've made some very nice improvements to the font. Will you consider adopting them and putting them into future Original Versions?
Most authors would be very happy to receive such contributions. Keep in mind that it is unlikely that they would want to incorporate major changes that would require additional work on their end. Any contributions would likely need to be made for all the fonts in a family and match the overall design and style. Authors are encouraged to include a guide to the design with the fonts. It would also help to have contributions submitted as patches or clearly marked changes - the use of smart source revision control systems like subversion, mercurial, git or bzr is a good idea. Please follow the recommendations given by the author(s) in terms of preferred source formats and configuration parameters for sending contributions. If this is not indicated in a FONTLOG or other documentation of the font, consider asking them directly. Examples of useful contributions are bug fixes, additional glyphs, stylistic alternates (and the smart font code to access them) or improved hinting. Keep in mind that some kinds of changes (esp. hinting) may be technically difficult to integrate.
7.4 How can I financially support the development of OFL fonts?
It is likely that most authors of OFL fonts would accept financial contributions - contact them for instructions on how to do this. Such contributions would support future development. You can also pay for others to enhance the fonts and contribute the results back to the original authors for inclusion in the Original Version.
8 ABOUT THE LICENSE ITSELF
8.1 I see that this is version 1.1 of the license. Will there be later changes?
Version 1.1 is the first minor revision of the OFL. We are confident that version 1.1 will meet most needs, but are open to future improvements. Any revisions would be for future font releases, and previously existing licenses would remain in effect. No retroactive changes are possible, although the Copyright Holder(s) can re-release the font under a revised OFL. All versions will be available on our website: https://openfontlicense.org.
8.2 Does this license restrict the rights of the Copyright Holder(s)?
No. The Copyright Holder(s) still retain(s) all the rights to their creation; they are only releasing a portion of it for use in a specific way. For example, the Copyright Holder(s) may choose to release a 'basic' version of their font under the OFL, but sell a restricted 'enhanced' version under a different license. They may also choose to release the same font under both the OFL and some other license. Only the Copyright Holder(s) can do this, and doing so does not change the terms of the OFL as it applies to that font.
8.3 Is the OFL a contract or a license?
The OFL is a worldwide license based on international copyright agreements and conventions. It is not a contract and so does not require you to sign it to have legal validity. By using, modifying and redistributing components under the OFL you indicate that you accept the license.
8.4 I really like the terms of the OFL, but want to change it a little. Am I allowed to take ideas and actual wording from the OFL and put them into my own custom license for distributing my fonts?
We strongly recommend against creating your very own unique open licensing model. Using a modified or derivative license will likely cut you off - along with the font(s) under that license - from the community of designers using the OFL, potentially expose you and your users to legal liabilities, and possibly put your work and rights at risk. The OFL went though a community and legal review process that took years of effort, and that review is only applicable to an unmodified OFL. The text of the OFL has been written by SIL (with review and consultation from the community) and is copyright (c) 2005-2023 SIL International. You may re-use the ideas and wording (in part, not in whole) in another non-proprietary license provided that you call your license by another unambiguous name, that you do not use the preamble, that you do not mention SIL and that you clearly present your license as different from the OFL so as not to cause confusion by being too similar to the original. If you feel the OFL does not meet your needs for an open license, please contact us.
8.5 Can I quote from the OFL FAQ?
Yes, SIL gives permission to quote from the OFL FAQ (OFL-FAQ.txt), in whole or in part, provided that the quoted text is:
- unmodified,
- used to help explain the intent of the OFL, rather than cause misunderstanding, and
- accompanied with the following attribution: "From the OFL FAQ (OFL-FAQ.txt), copyright (c) 2005-2023 SIL International. Used by permission. https://openfontlicense.org/OFL-FAQ".
8.6 Can I translate the license and the FAQ into other languages?
SIL certainly recognises the need for people who are not familiar with English to be able to understand the OFL and its use. Making the license very clear and readable has been a key goal for the OFL, but we know that people understand their own language best.
If you are an experienced translator, you are very welcome to translate the OFL and OFL-FAQ so that designers and users in your language community can understand the license better. But only the original English version of the license has legal value and has been approved by the community. Translations do not count as legal substitutes and should only serve as a way to explain the original license. SIL - as the author and steward of the license for the community at large - does not approve any translation of the OFL as legally valid because even small translation ambiguities could be abused and create problems.
SIL gives permission to publish unofficial translations into other languages provided that they comply with the following guidelines:
Put the following disclaimer in both English and the target language stating clearly that the translation is unofficial: "This is an unofficial translation of the SIL Open Font License into <language_name>. It was not published by SIL International, and does not legally state the distribution terms for fonts that use the OFL. A release under the OFL is only valid when using the original English text. However, we recognize that this unofficial translation will help users and designers not familiar with English to better understand and use the OFL. We encourage designers who consider releasing their creation under the OFL to read the OFL-FAQ in their own language if it is available. Please go to https://openfontlicense.org for the official version of the license and the accompanying OFL-FAQ."
Keep your unofficial translation current and update it at our request if needed, for example if there is any ambiguity which could lead to confusion. If you start such an unofficial translation effort of the OFL and OFL-FAQ please let us know.
8.7 Does the OFL have an explicit expiration term?
No, the implicit intent of the OFL is that the permissions granted are perpetual and irrevocable.
8.8 Why is there no automatic upgrade clause, a 'version 1.1 or later' like in the GPL?
This is by design, with the goals of establishing clear trust and of preventing any situation where the actual terms could be changed from underneath any user of the license. That would introduce uncertainty and confusion. Any perceived benefits of automatic incremental licensing under newer versions is strongly outweighed by the inherent risks and confusion it would cause. If a new version becomes officially available, Copyright Holder(s) can review the new version and decide whether to re-release their fonts under it. Derivative fonts could not be re-licensed unless the original versions were re-released first.
8.9 How do you pronounce the name of the license?
The OFL is pronounced as three individual letters /ˈɑː.əf.əl/ or OH-EFF-ELL.
9 ABOUT SIL INTERNATIONAL
9.1 Who is SIL International and what do they do?
SIL is a global, faith-based nonprofit that works with local communities around the world to develop language solutions that expand possibilities for a better life. SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language development, by means of research, translation, training and materials development. SIL makes its services available to all without regard to religious belief, political ideology, gender, race, or ethnic background. SIL's members and volunteers share a Christian commitment.
9.2 What does this have to do with font licensing?
The ability to read, write, type and publish in one's own language is one of the most critical needs for millions of people around the world. This requires fonts that are widely available and support lesser-known languages. SIL develops - and encourages others to develop - a complete stack of writing systems implementation components available under open licenses. This open stack includes input methods, smart fonts, smart rendering libraries and smart applications. There has been a need for a common open license that is specifically applicable to fonts and related software (a crucial component of this stack), so SIL developed the SIL Open Font License with the help of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community.
9.3 How can I contact SIL?
Our main website is: https://www.sil.org/
Our main site about fonts and software is: https://software.sil.org/
Our site about complex scripts is: https://scriptsource.org/
Information about this license (and contact information) is at: https://openfontlicense.org
APPENDIX A - FONTLOG EXAMPLE
Here is an example of the recommended format for a FONTLOG, although other formats are allowed.
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FONTLOG for the GlobalFontFamily fonts
This file provides detailed information on the GlobalFontFamily Font Software. This information should be distributed along with the GlobalFontFamily fonts and any derivative works.
Basic Font Information
GlobalFontFamily is a Unicode typeface family that supports all languages that use the Latin script and its variants, and could be expanded to support other scripts.
NewWorldFontFamily is based on the GlobalFontFamily and also supports Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Armenian.
More specifically, this release supports the following Unicode ranges...
This release contains...
Documentation can be found at...
To contribute to the project...
ChangeLog
10 December 2010 (Fred Foobar) GlobalFontFamily-devel version 1.4
- fix new build and testing system (bug #123456)
1 August 2008 (Tom Parker) GlobalFontFamily version 1.2.1
- Tweaked the smart font code (Branch merged with main)
- Provided improved build and debugging environment for smart behaviours
7 February 2007 (Pat Johnson) NewWorldFontFamily Version 1.3
- Added Greek and Cyrillic glyphs
7 March 2006 (Fred Foobar) NewWorldFontFamily Version 1.2
- Tweaked contextual behaviours
1 Feb 2005 (Jane Doe) NewWorldFontFamily Version 1.1
- Improved build script performance and verbosity
- Extended the smart code documentation
- Corrected minor typos in the documentation
- Fixed position of combining inverted breve below (U+032F)
- Added OpenType/Graphite smart code for Armenian
- Added Armenian glyphs (U+0531 -> U+0587)
- Released as "NewWorldFontFamily"
1 Jan 2005 (Joe Smith) GlobalFontFamily Version 1.0
- Initial release
Acknowledgements
If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.
N: Jane Doe
E: jane@university.edu
W: https://art.university.edu/projects/fonts
D: Contributor - Armenian glyphs and code
N: Fred Foobar
E: fred@foobar.org
W: https://foobar.org
D: Contributor - misc Graphite fixes
N: Pat Johnson
E: pat@fontstudio.org
W: https://pat.fontstudio.org
D: Designer - Greek & Cyrillic glyphs based on Roman design
N: Tom Parker
E: tom@company.com
W: https://www.company.com/tom/projects/fonts
D: Engineer - original smart font code
N: Joe Smith
E: joe@fontstudio.org
W: https://joe.fontstudio.org
D: Designer - original Roman glyphs
Fontstudio.org is an not-for-profit design group whose purpose is...
Foobar.org is a distributed community of developers...
Company.com is a small business who likes to support community designers...
University.edu is a renowned educational institution with a strong design department...
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Copyright (c) 1997-2025 SIL Global (https://www.sil.org/)
with Reserved Font Names "Charis" and "SIL".
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
https://openfontlicense.org
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SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
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PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.
"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).
"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.
"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.
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README
Charis
==========
This project is intended to provide a free and open font family for all current languages and writing systems that use Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It supports almost the complete range of Unicode characters for these scripts, including a comprehensive range of diacritics and a large set of symbols useful for linguistics and literacy work. Smart font routines automatically adjust the position of diacritics to support and optimize arbitrary base+diacritic combinations. This project uses a UFO-based design and production workflow, with all sources in open formats and a completely open-source build toolkit.
To download the fonts visit the [Charis downloads page](https://software.sil.org/charis/download/) or the [Github releases page](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis/releases).
For more information on using and developing the fonts see the full project documentation. This is available in three forms:
- *local HTML* - Download the release package and open the file `documentation/index.html` in a browser
- *local PDF* - Download the release or source package and open the file `documentation/pdf/index.pdf`
- *Web site* - Visit the [Charis web site](https://software.sil.org/charis)
For a complete list of changes in this version see the [FONTLOG.txt](FONTLOG.txt).
For copyright and licensing information - including any Reserved Font Names - see [OFL.txt](OFL.txt).
For practical information about using, modifying and redistributing this font see [OFL-FAQ.txt](OFL-FAQ.txt).

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Charis
==========
The documentation for this project is listed in index.html.
There are also PDF versions in the `pdf` folder.
These are produced from markdown sources (in `source`) using pandoc,
weasyprint, and custom python scripts. See the `makedocs` shell script
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<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Charis - About</title>
<meta name="author" content="SIL Writing Systems Technology">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./assets/css/theme.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./assets/css/webfonts.css">
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<article class="article">
<header>
<h1 class="title">Charis - About</h1>
</header>
<h2 id="about-this-project">About this project</h2>
<p>This project is intended to provide a free and open font family
for all current languages and writing systems that use Latin and
Cyrillic scripts. It supports almost the complete range of Unicode
characters for these scripts, including a comprehensive range of
diacritics and a large set of symbols useful for linguistics and
literacy work. Smart font routines automatically adjust the position
of diacritics to support and optimize arbitrary base+diacritic
combinations.</p>
<p>For more information on the visual characteristics of the font
family see <a href="design.html">Design</a>.</p>
<p>For a comparison between this and other SIL fonts, see <a
href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/support/comparison/">Comparison
of Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic fonts</a>.</p>
<h2 id="future-plans">Future plans</h2>
<p>These fonts are actively maintained and improved, and recent
changes to their development process will enable more frequent
releases.</p>
<p>The highest priorities for future additions and enhancements are
mainly driven by:</p>
<ul>
<li>New additions to <a href="https://unicode.org/">The Unicode
Standard</a></li>
<li>Requests from language communities using the fonts</li>
<li>Needs of the linguistic and academic community</li>
</ul>
<p>Although some expert typographic features are supported (e.g.
small caps), those are a lesser priority.</p>
<p>Please send us your requests using the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">form on the
font website</a>. If you are interested in helping us make the fonts
better, see the <a href="developer.html">Developer</a> page.</p>
<h2 id="announcement-list">Announcement list</h2>
<p>If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our
SIL fonts, please subscribe to our <a
href="https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sil.org/forum/#!forum/sil-font-news">SIL
Font News Announcement List</a>. This is an announcement-only list
with messages approximately once a month. It does not allow any
discussion.</p>
<p>You can subscribe using either of the two following options.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>If you use a Google profile and join the group, you will be
able to access the group and control your subscription and
notification options with a web browser. Make sure you are logged in
to your Google profile and go to the <a
href="https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sil.org/forum/#!forum/sil-font-news">SIL
Font News Google Group</a>. Click on <strong>Join
group</strong>.</p></li>
<li><p>If you would rather not use a Google profile, you can
subscribe any email address by sending a message to <a
href="mailto:sil-font-news+subscribe@groups.sil.org">sil-font-news+subscribe@groups.sil.org</a>
and following the instructions you get in the confirmation
message.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Our font announcements are also available through X (formerly
Twitter) <a href="https://x.com/silfonts">@silfonts</a>.</p>
<h2 id="supporting-the-project">Supporting the project</h2>
<p>These fonts are provided at no cost; however, they are expensive
to produce and maintain. Please consider donating to SILs font
development efforts to support future development. Go to <a
href="https://give.sil.org/give/485238">SILs Give Direct page</a>.
<strong>Thank you!</strong></p>
<h2 id="about-sil-global">About SIL Global</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.sil.org/">SIL Global</a> is a global,
faith-based nonprofit that works with local communities around the
world to develop language solutions that expand possibilities for a
better life.</p>
<p>We are involved in approximately 1,350 active language projects
in 104 countries. These projects impact more than 1.1 billion people
within 1,600 local communities. SILs work brings together more than
4,300 staff from 89 countries who work alongside thousands more
local partners and community volunteers worldwide. Our services are
available without regard to religious belief, political ideology,
gender, race or ethnic background.</p>
<p>Our Vision: We long to see people flourishing in community using
the languages they value most.</p>
<p>Our Mission: Inspired by Gods love, we advocate, build capacity,
and work with local communities to apply language expertise that
advances meaningful development, education, and engagement with
Scripture.</p>
<p><a href="https://software.sil.org/">SIL Language Technology</a>
supports these activities by developing <a
href="https://software.sil.org/products/">software</a>, <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/">fonts</a>, and <a
href="https://keyman.com/">keyboard technologies</a>.</p>
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<p>This guide is from the <a href="https://software.sil.org/charis/" title="" class="active">Charis project</a> version 7 and is copyright © 1997-2025 SIL Global.</p>
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This file is from the Charis project (https://software.sil.org/charis/).
Copyright (c) 1997-2025 SIL Global (https://www.sil.org/) with Reserved
Font Names "Charis" and "SIL". This Font Software is licensed under the SIL
Open Font License, Version 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org).
*/
html {
font-family: sans-serif;
line-height: 1.1;
}
article,
aside,
figcaption,
figure,
footer,
header,
hgroup,
main,
nav,
section {
display: block;
}
.container {
width: 90%;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
body {
margin: 0;
font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif;
/* font-family: Cambria, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", "DejaVu Serif", "Bitstream Vera Serif", "Liberation Serif", serif; */
font-size: 1rem;
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 1.4;
color: #000000;
text-align: start;
background-color: #fff;
}
h1 {
font-size: 2.4rem;
font-weight: 700;
margin-top: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
h2 {
font-size: 1.8rem;
font-weight: 700;
margin-top: 1.3rem;
margin-bottom: 0.2rem;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
h3 {
font-size: 1.4rem;
font-weight: 700;
margin-top: 1.2rem;
margin-bottom: 0.2rem;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
h4 {
font-size: 1.2rem;
font-weight: 700;
}
h4,
h5,
h6 {
margin-top: 1.2em;
margin-bottom: 0rem;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
p {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
ol,
ul,
dl {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
ol ol,
ul ul,
ol ul,
ul ol {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
strong {
font-weight: bolder;
}
small {
font-size: 0.8rem;
}
a {
color: #018ADF;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: transparent;
}
pre {
display: block;
background-color: #edf2f5;
padding: 0.5rem 0;
}
code {
display: inline-block;
background-color: #edf2f5;
font-family: SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", monospace;
font-size: 0.9rem;
}
td code {
background-color: transparent;
}
blockquote {
display: block;
margin-block-start: 1em;
margin-block-end: 1em;
margin-inline-start: 0px;
margin-inline-end: 40px;
padding-left: 30px;
border-left: 10px solid #edf2f5;
}
img {
vertical-align: middle;
border-style: none;
}
figcaption {
padding-top: 0.75rem;
padding-bottom: 0.75rem;
color: #6c757d;
text-align: left;
caption-side: bottom;
}
table {
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
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}
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vertical-align: bottom;
}
th {
padding: 0.3rem 1rem 0.4rem 1rem;
vertical-align: top;
background-color: #a6afb4;
}
tr {
vertical-align: bottom;
page-break-before: avoid;
}
tbody tr:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: #dce5eb;
}
tbody tr:nth-child(even) {
background-color: #edf2f5;
}
td {
padding: 0.3rem 1rem 0.4rem 1rem;
vertical-align: text-bottom;
}
kbd{
background-color: #6c757d;
color: #fff;
padding: 0.2rem 0.3rem;
}
footer {
margin-top: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
color: #999999;
}
.affects {
font-size: 0.8rem;
color: #333333;
}
.footnote-ref {
font-weight: 700;
padding-left: 0.15rem;
}
.normal {
/* used for all product site web font example spans to remove inherited styling */
font-size: 1.5rem;
}
@media print {
html {
font-size: 10pt;
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/*
This file is from the Charis project (https://software.sil.org/charis/).
Copyright (c) 1997-2025 SIL Global (https://www.sil.org/) with Reserved
Font Names "Charis" and "SIL". This Font Software is licensed under the SIL
Open Font License, Version 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org).
*/
html {
font-family: sans-serif;
line-height: 1.1;
font-size: 9pt;
}
article,
aside,
figcaption,
figure,
footer,
header,
hgroup,
main,
nav,
section {
display: block;
}
.container {
width: 90%;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
body {
margin: 0;
font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
/* font-family: Cambria, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", "DejaVu Serif", "Bitstream Vera Serif", "Liberation Serif", serif; */
font-size: 1rem;
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 1.4;
color: #000000;
text-align: start;
background-color: #fff;
}
h1 {
font-size: 2.4rem;
font-weight: 700;
margin-top: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
h2 {
font-size: 1.8rem;
font-weight: 700;
margin-top: 1.3rem;
margin-bottom: 0.2rem;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
h3 {
font-size: 1.4rem;
font-weight: 700;
margin-top: 1.2rem;
margin-bottom: 0.2rem;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
h4 {
font-size: 1.2rem;
font-weight: 700;
}
h4,
h5,
h6 {
margin-top: 1.2em;
margin-bottom: 0rem;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
p {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
ol,
ul,
dl {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
ol ol,
ul ul,
ol ul,
ul ol {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
strong {
font-weight: bolder;
}
small {
font-size: 0.8rem;
}
a {
color: #018ADF;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: transparent;
}
pre {
display: block;
background-color: #edf2f5;
padding: 0.5rem 0;
}
code {
display: inline-block;
background-color: #edf2f5;
font-family: "Roboto Mono", monospace;
font-size: 0.9rem;
}
td code {
background-color: transparent;
}
blockquote {
display: block;
padding-left: 30px;
border-left: 10px solid #edf2f5;
}
img {
vertical-align: middle;
border-style: none;
object-fit: contain;
max-width: 100%;
}
figcaption {
padding-top: 0.75rem;
padding-bottom: 0.75rem;
color: #6c757d;
text-align: left;
caption-side: bottom;
}
table {
width: 100%;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
border-collapse: collapse;
}
thead {
vertical-align: bottom;
}
th {
padding: 0.3rem 1rem 0.4rem 1rem;
vertical-align: top;
background-color: #a6afb4;
}
tr {
vertical-align: bottom;
page-break-before: avoid;
}
tbody tr:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: #dce5eb;
}
tbody tr:nth-child(even) {
background-color: #edf2f5;
}
td {
padding: 0.3rem 1rem 0.4rem 1rem;
vertical-align: text-bottom;
}
kbd{
background-color: #6c757d;
color: #fff;
padding: 0.2rem 0.3rem;
}
footer {
margin-top: 2rem;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
color: #999999;
}
.affects {
font-size: 0.8rem;
color: #333333;
}
.footnote-ref {
font-weight: 700;
padding-left: 0.15rem;
}
.normal {
/* used for all product site web font example spans to remove inherited styling */
font-size: 1.5rem;
}

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/*
This file is from the Charis project (https://software.sil.org/charis/).
Copyright (c) 1997-2025 SIL Global (https://www.sil.org/) with Reserved
Font Names "Charis" and "SIL". This Font Software is licensed under the SIL
Open Font License, Version 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org).
*/
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-R;
src: url("../../../web/Charis-Regular.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-M;
src: url("../../../web/Charis-Medium.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-SB;
src: url("../../../web/Charis-SemiBold.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-B;
src: url("../../../web/Charis-Bold.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-I;
src: url("../../../web/Charis-Italic.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-MI;
src: url("../../../web/Charis-MediumItalic.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-SBI;
src: url("../../../web/Charis-SemiBoldItalic.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-BI;
src: url("../../../web/Charis-BoldItalic.woff2") format("woff2");
}
.charis-R { font-family: Charis-R; }
.charis-M { font-family: Charis-M; }
.charis-SB { font-family: Charis-SB; }
.charis-B { font-family: Charis-B; }
.charis-I { font-family: Charis-I; }
.charis-MI { font-family: Charis-MI; }
.charis-SBI { font-family: Charis-SBI; }
.charis-BI { font-family: Charis-BI; }

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/*
This file is from the Charis project (https://software.sil.org/charis/).
Copyright (c) 1997-2025 SIL Global (https://www.sil.org/) with Reserved
Font Names "Charis" and "SIL". This Font Software is licensed under the SIL
Open Font License, Version 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org).
*/
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-R;
src: url("../../../results/Charis-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-M;
src: url("../../../results/Charis-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-SB;
src: url("../../../results/Charis-SemiBold.ttf") format("truetype");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-B;
src: url("../../../results/Charis-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-I;
src: url("../../../results/Charis-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-MI;
src: url("../../../results/Charis-MediumItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-SBI;
src: url("../../../results/Charis-SemiBoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
}
@font-face {
font-family: Charis-BI;
src: url("../../../results/Charis-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
}
.charis-R { font-family: Charis-R; }
.charis-M { font-family: Charis-M; }
.charis-SB { font-family: Charis-SB; }
.charis-B { font-family: Charis-B; }
.charis-I { font-family: Charis-I; }
.charis-MI { font-family: Charis-MI; }
.charis-SBI { font-family: Charis-SBI; }
.charis-BI { font-family: Charis-BI; }

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-us">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Charis - Character Set Support</title>
<meta name="author" content="SIL Writing Systems Technology">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./assets/css/theme.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./assets/css/webfonts.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<article class="article">
<header>
<h1 class="title">Charis - Character Set Support</h1>
</header>
<p>This font supports over 2,400 characters from <a
href="https://unicode.org/">The Unicode Standard</a> as well as a
number of <a
href="https://github.com/silnrsi/unicode-resources/tree/main/sil-pua">Private
Use Area (PUA)</a> characters. In total, over 3,800 glyphs are
included, supporting stylistic alternates for a number of characters
as well as a large number of ligated sequences (e.g., contour tone
letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).</p>
<h2 id="supported-characters">Supported characters</h2>
<p>The following character ranges are supported by this font:</p>
<table>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 46%" />
<col style="width: 53%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Unicode block</th>
<th>Charis support</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>C0 Controls and Basic Latin*</td>
<td>U+0020..U+007E</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement*</td>
<td>U+00A0..U+00FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latin Extended-A</td>
<td>U+0100..U+0148, U+014A..U+017F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latin Extended-B*</td>
<td>U+0180..U+024F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>IPA Extensions*</td>
<td>U+0250..U+02AF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spacing Modifier Letters*</td>
<td>U+02B0..U+02FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Combining Diacritical Marks</td>
<td>U+0300..U+033F, U+0346..U+036F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Greek and Coptic</td>
<td>U+0387, U+0393..U+0394, U+0398, U+039E, U+03A0, U+03A8..U+03A9,
U+03B1..U+03B4, U+03B8, U+03BB..U+03BC, U+03C0..U+03C1, U+03C3,
U+03C6..U+03C7, U+03C9, U+03D1, U+03F4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cyrillic</td>
<td>U+0400..U+045F, U+0462..U+0463, U+0472..U+0475,
U+048A..U+04FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cyrillic Supplement*</td>
<td>U+0500..U+052F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Combining Diacritical Marks Extended</td>
<td>U+1AB0..U+1ABA. U+1ABF..U+1AC0, U+1AC6..U+1ACE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cyrillic Extended-C</td>
<td>U+1C89..U+1C8A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phonetic Extensions*</td>
<td>U+1D00..U+1D7F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phonetic Extensions Supplement*</td>
<td>U+1D80..U+1DBF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement</td>
<td>U+1DC2, U+1DC4..U+1DCD, U+1DDA, U+1DDC, U+1DF5,
U+1DFC..U+1DFF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latin Extended Additional*</td>
<td>U+1E00..U+1EFF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>General Punctuation</td>
<td>U+2000..U+2042, U+2044, U+204A, U+2053, U+2057, U+2060..U+2063,
U+206A..U+206F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Superscripts and Subscripts*</td>
<td>U+2070..U+2071, U+2074..U+208E, U+2090..U+209C</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Currency Symbols*</td>
<td>U+20A0..U+20C0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols</td>
<td>U+20E5, U+20EC..U+20EF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Letterlike Symbols</td>
<td>U+210C, U+2113, U+2116..U+2117, U+211F, U+2122..U+2123, U+2126,
U+212D, U+2135, U+214F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Number Forms*</td>
<td>U+2150..U+218B</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Arrows</td>
<td>U+2190..U+219B, U+21A8, U+21AE, U+21B6..U+21B7, U+21BA..U+21BB,
U+21D0..U+21D5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mathematical Operators</td>
<td>U+2202..U+2206, U+220F, U+2211..U+2213, U+2215, U+2219..U+221A,
U+221E, U+2221, U+2225..U+2228, U+222B, U+2234..U+2235, U+223C,
U+2248, U+225F, U+2260..U+2262, U+2264..U+2265, U+226E..U+226F,
U+U+2282..U+2287, U+22BB..U+22BD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Miscellaneous Technical</td>
<td>U+2308..U+230B, U+2318, U+231C..U+231F, U+2329..U+232A,
U+239B..U+23AD, U+23D1..U+23D6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Control Pictures</td>
<td>U+2423</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Enclosed Alphanumerics</td>
<td>U+24B6, U+24D0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Geometric Shapes</td>
<td>U+25C9, U+25CA..U+25CC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Miscellaneous Symbols</td>
<td>U+2610..U+2612, U+2639..U+263A, U+2640, U+2642, U+266D,
U+266F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dingbats</td>
<td>U+2713, U+2717, U+274D</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Misc. Math. Symbols-A</td>
<td>U+27C2, U+27E6..U+27EB</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Misc. Math. Symbols-B</td>
<td>U+2980</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Supplemental Math. Operators</td>
<td>U+2AFD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latin Extended-C*</td>
<td>U+2C60..U+2C7F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Coptic</td>
<td>U+2C88..U+2C89</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Supplemental Punctuation</td>
<td>U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E13..U+2E15, U+2E17, U+2E22..U+2E25,
U+2E28..U+2E29, U+2E3A..U+2E3B, U+2E3D..U+2E3E</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cyrillic Extended-B</td>
<td>U+A69C..U+A69D</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Modifier Tone Letters*</td>
<td>U+A700..U+A71F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latin Extended-D</td>
<td>U+A720..U+A799, U+A7A0..U+A7AF, U+A7B0..U+A7BF, U+A7C4..U+A7CD,
U+A7DA..U+A7DC, U+A7F2..U+A7F4, U+A7F7..U+A7FF</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kayah Li</td>
<td>U+A92E</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latin Extended-E</td>
<td>U+AB30, U+AB53, U+AB5C, U+AB5E, U+AB64..U+AB6B</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PUA: Specials</td>
<td>U+F130..U+F133</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PUA: Modifier letters (e.g. superscripts)</td>
<td>U+F1A1, U+F1A3..U+F1A4, U+F1AB, U+F1AE, U+F1B4..U+F1B5, U+F1BC,
U+F1CD..U+F1CE, U+F1F1..U+F1F9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PUA: Latin</td>
<td>U+F20D, U+F234..U+F235, U+F258..U+F259, U+F267..U+F269,
U+F26C..U+F26D</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PUA: Cyrillic</td>
<td>U+F326..U+F327</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alphabetic Presentation Forms</td>
<td>U+FB00..U+FB04</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Variation Selectors*</td>
<td>U+FE00..U+FE0F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Combining Half Marks</td>
<td>U+FE20..U+FE23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Arabic Presentation Forms-B</td>
<td>U+FEFF (zero-width no-break space)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Specials*</td>
<td>U+FFF9..U+FFFD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latin Extended-F*</td>
<td>U+10780..U+10785, U+10787..U+107B0, U+107B2..U+107BA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols</td>
<td>U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D510,
U+1D513..U+1D514, U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latin Extended-G*</td>
<td>U+1DF00..U+1DF1E, U+1DF25..U+1DF2A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cyrillic Extended-D</td>
<td>U+1E030..U+1E049, U+1E04B..U+1E06B, U+1E06D, U+1E06F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement</td>
<td>U+1F12F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Emoticons</td>
<td>U+1F610</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>*This block is fully supported as of Unicode 15.0.</p>
<h2 id="private-use-pua-characters">Private-use (PUA)
characters</h2>
<p>There are a number of private-use characters that are supported
in this font. These conform to <a
href="https://github.com/silnrsi/unicode-resources/tree/main/sil-pua">SIL
Globals corporate registry</a> for usage of the Unicode private-use
areas. Characters which are not yet in Unicode are shown below.</p>
<h3 id="specials">Specials</h3>
<ul>
<li>U+F130 FONT BASELINE AND SIDE-BEARING MARKER LEFT</li>
<li>U+F131 FONT BASELINE AND SIDE-BEARING MARKER RIGHT</li>
<li>U+F132 FONT VERTICAL METRICS MARKER LEFT</li>
<li>U+F133 FONT VERTICAL METRICS MARKER RIGHT</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="modifier-letters">Modifier Letters</h3>
<ul>
<li>U+F1CD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL U BAR</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="latin">Latin</h3>
<ul>
<li>U+F20D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE AND HOOK</li>
<li>U+F258 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I OVER SMALL SCHWA</li>
<li>U+F259 LATIN LETTER SMALL UPSILON OVER SMALL SCHWA</li>
<li>U+F26D LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH LEFT HOOK</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="cyrillic">Cyrillic</h3>
<ul>
<li>U+F326 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND
DESCENDER</li>
<li>U+F327 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="deprecated-sil-corporate-pua-characters">Deprecated SIL
Corporate PUA characters</h3>
<p>Some characters formerly in the PUA have been added to Unicode,
and so have been deprecated in our fonts. Those PUA characters are
displayed as black boxes containing a white image of the deprecated
glyph.</p>
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<p>Charis is optimized for readability in long printed documents. It
is highly readable and holds up well in less-than-ideal reproduction
environments due to its simple and robust design with strong serifs
and clear features.</p>
<img src="assets/images/CharisTypePage.png" class="fullsize"
alt="Charis Sample - Precomposed Latin Diacritics" />
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Charis Sample - Precomposed Latin Diacritics
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<p>For a complete list of characters included in Charis, see <a
href="charset.html">Character Set Support</a>.</p>
<h3 id="note-regarding-charter">Note regarding Charter</h3>
<p>This Charis font is essentially the same design as the SIL Charis
font first released by SIL in 1997. The design of the basic
character set of Charis is similar (but not identical) to Bitstream
Charter, designed by Matthew Carter. The following notice
accompanied the Charter fonts:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>© Copyright 1989-1992, Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA.</p>
<p>You are hereby granted permission under all Bitstream propriety
rights to use, copy, modify, sublicense, sell, and redistribute the
4 Bitstream Charter® Type 1 outline fonts and the 4 Courier Type 1
outline fonts for any purpose and without restriction; provided,
that this notice is left intact on all copies of such fonts and that
Bitstream's trademark is acknowledged as shown below on all
unmodified copies of the 4 Charter Type 1 fonts.</p>
<p>BITSTREAM CHARTER is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>SIL Global is the creator of the Charis fonts, and is the owner
of all proprietary rights therein.</p>
<p><em>Charis</em> is a trademark of SIL Global.</p>
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<h2 id="welcome-font-developers">Welcome font developers!</h2>
<p>We welcome other developers who wish to get involved in
supporting and enhancing these fonts or who want to modify them.</p>
<h2 id="permissions-granted-by-the-ofl">Permissions granted by the
OFL</h2>
<p>SILs fonts are licensed according to the terms of the <a
href="https://openfontlicense.org">SIL Open Font License</a>. The
OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed
freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. For details see
the OFL.txt and OFL-FAQ.txt files in the package.</p>
<h2 id="building-the-fonts-from-source-code">Building the fonts from
source code</h2>
<p>The full source code for our Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic fonts is
available on Github:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis">Charis Github
repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/silnrsi/font-doulos">Doulos SIL
Github repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/silnrsi/font-gentium">Gentium Github
repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/silnrsi/font-andika">Andika Github
repository</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Font sources are in the <a
href="https://unifiedfontobject.org/versions/ufo3/">UFO3</a> format
with font family structures defined using <a
href="https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/tree/master/Doc/source/designspaceLib">designspace</a>.
OpenType source code is stored in the <a
href="https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko/OpenTypeFeatureFileSpecification.html">.fea</a>
format in the UFO (features.fea) but is maintained in a separate
file using the more efficient and powerful <a
href="hhttps://github.com/silnrsi/feax/blob/main/docs/feaextensions.html">.feax</a>
format.</p>
<p>The fonts are built using a completely free and open source
workflow using industry-standard tools (<a
href="https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools">fonttools</a>), a
package of custom python scripts (<a
href="https://github.com/silnrsi/pysilfont">pysilfont</a>), and a
build and packaging system (<a
href="https://github.com/silnrsi/smith">Smith</a>). The whole
toolchain is available as a Docker container.</p>
<p>Full instructions for setting up the tools and building SIL fonts
are available on a dedicated web site: <a
href="https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/">SIL Font Development
Notes</a>.</p>
<h2 id="contributing-to-the-project">Contributing to the
project</h2>
<p>We warmly welcome contributions to the fonts, such as new glyphs,
enhanced smart font code, or bug fixes. The <a
href="https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Contributing_Changes.html">brief
overview of contributing changes</a> is a good place to begin. The
next step is to contact us by responding to an existing issue or
creating an issue in the Github repository and expressing your
interest. We can then work together to plan and integrate your
contributions.</p>
<p>Here are a few examples of contributions that would be welcomed
(some more than others):</p>
<ul>
<li>Historic/Archaic Cyrillic</li>
<li>Mathematical glyphs</li>
<li>Additional scripts (Armenian, etc.), and any needed OpenType
code</li>
</ul>
<p>Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality
for our fonts, we will review submissions carefully. Contributions
will need to cover all the weights and styles of the family and in
some cases all four font projects. Please dont be discouraged if we
do not include a submission due to quality or incompleteness, or if
we ask you to make specific revisions.</p>
<p>To enable us to accept contributions in a way that honors your
contribution and respects your copyright while preserving long-term
flexibility for open source licensing, you would also need to agree
to the <strong>SIL Global Contributor License Agreement for Font
Software (v1.1)</strong> prior to sending us your contribution. To
read more about this requirement and find out how to submit the
required form, please visit the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fontcla">CLA information
page</a>.</p>
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<h1 class="title">Charis - Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
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<p>Many questions can be answered by consulting the following FAQ
pages. Here are a few sample questions answered in each FAQ:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/faq">SIL fonts in
general</a>
<ul>
<li><em>How can I type...?</em></li>
<li><em>How can I use font features?</em></li>
<li><em>Will you add support for character...?</em></li>
<li><em>Will you add support for script...?</em></li>
<li><em>WIll you help me...?</em></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/faq">SILs Latin,
Cyrillic, and Greek fonts</a>.
<ul>
<li><em>How can I type IPA symbols?</em></li>
<li><em>How do I use both a single-story and double-story 'a' in
italic?</em></li>
<li><em>Why dont my diacritics position properly?</em></li>
<li><em>Why is the line spacing so much looser than other
fonts?</em></li>
<li><em>Ive updated my font to the latest version and some letters
have become black boxes with white letters - why?</em></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://openfontlicense.org/ofl-faq">The SIL Open Font
License (OFL-FAQ)</a>
<ul>
<li><em>Can I use this font for...?</em></li>
<li><em>Can I modify the font and then include it in...</em></li>
<li><em>If I use the font on a web page do I have to include an
acknowledgement?</em></li>
<li>The full OFL-FAQ.txt is also included in the font package.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>Here are a few of the most frequently asked questions
specifically regarding Charis:</p>
<h4
id="why-did-you-change-the-font-family-name-to-only-charis"><em>Why
did you change the font family name to only Charis?</em></h4>
<p>The version 7 reduction of default line spacing and addition of
kerning would have caused most documents that used Charis SIL to
reflow. This would have caused significant pain for users who wanted
to use the new version but also had large collections of existing
documents that would reflow. Changing the name to only Charis allows
both old and new font families to be installed at the same time and
eases the transition to the new version.</p>
<h4 id="why-did-you-stop-producing-compact-versions"><em>Why did you
stop producing Compact versions?</em></h4>
<p>Improvements to both these fonts and industry font technology has
reduced the need for <em>Compact</em> versions. The reduced default
line spacing in v7 enables many users of <em>Compact</em> variants
to switch to using the standard fonts, and allows documents to be
shared without requiring special fonts. If tight or loose line
spacing is needed the best solution is to use the standard fonts and
explicitly set the line spacing in your application. If the
application does not allow user-specified line spacing the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">v6.2 Compact
fonts remain available</a>. Please also contact the app developer to
request that they give users better control over line spacing.</p>
<h4 id="where-are-the-literacy-versions"><em>Where are the Literacy
versions?</em></h4>
<p>We have not prepared pre-tuned <em>Literacy</em> versions of
the version 7 fonts. The standard fonts include the literacy forms,
which can be turned on in many applications and on web pages using
OpenType stylistic sets (<code>ss01</code>, <code>ss11</code>,
<code>ss12</code>) — see <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/features">Using Font
Features</a> and <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts">Using SIL Fonts on
Web Pages</a>. If your application does not allow you to control
these features the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">v6.2 Literacy
fonts remain available</a>. Please also contact the app developer to
request that they give users access to OpenType stylistic sets.</p>
<h4
id="is-there-a-guide-to-the-many-versions-of-charis-and-its-variants"><em>Is
there a guide to the many versions of Charis and its
variants?</em></h4>
<p>Yes! See the <a href="versions.html">Versions</a> page.</p>
<h4
id="why-does-my-application-not-show-the-bold-weight-in-font-menus-and-dialogs"><em>Why
does my application not show the Bold weight in font menus and
dialogs?</em></h4>
<p>Some applications will list all the weights but leave out Bold.
To access the Bold you need to choose Regular and turn on Bold using
the applications UI controls such as a “B” button. See our <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/axis-based-fonts/">Font Help
Guide on Axis-Based Font Families</a> for more information.</p>
<h4 id="why-do-i-sometimes-get-a-fake-bold"><em>Why do I sometimes
get a fake Bold?</em></h4>
<p>If you choose a weight other than Regular (such as Medium), and
then use application controls to turn on Bold, some applications
will make a “fake” Bold rather than use one of the real ones in the
font (SemiBold, Bold). This is because only Regular has an
associated Bold counterpart. This is a technical limitation with
some apps and OSes. If you are using a weight other than Regular for
text and want to make a word or phrase stand out, you will need to
select the text and apply one of the heavier weights manually. See
our <a href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/axis-based-fonts/">Font
Help Guide on Axis-Based Font Families</a> for more information.</p>
<h4
id="why-does-the-font-have-some-greek-characters-but-not-all"><em>Why
does the font have some Greek characters, but not all?</em></h4>
<p>Although Charis includes some Greek characters, it is not
intended to provide general support for the Greek language. The
Greek characters that are included are there to support various
notational systems (linguistic, logical, mathematical). Other fonts,
such as <a href="https://software.sil.org/gentium">Gentium</a>,
provide complete Greek script support.</p>
<h4 id="will-you-add-full-greek-script-support"><em>Will you add
full Greek script support?</em></h4>
<p>We have no plans to do that, however the <a
href="https://openfontlicense.org_web">OFL licensing</a> allows
anyone to add Greek support and freely distribute the font to
others. It is even possible to <a href="developer.html">contribute
that work back to the project</a> and share it with others.</p>
<h4 id="isnt-charis-just-a-copy-of-charter"><em>Isnt Charis just a
copy of Charter?</em></h4>
<p>Charis is very closely based on the design of Bitstream Charter.
However the glyphs were completely redrawn based only on visual
reference to Charter. There are some significant design differences
in the serif structure, proportions, diacritics, and Cyrillic. The
design was also adjusted and extended to cover a much wider range of
characters and publishing needs.</p>
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<p>Thank you for your interest in the Charis fonts. This font family
supports the broad variety of writing systems that use Latin and
Cyrillic scripts. The design is optimized for high readability at a
wide range of sizes and resolutions, making it ideal for new readers
moving on from simple sans serif forms.</p>
<p>This documentation is a set of HTML pages that can be viewed in
any modern web browser. PDF versions of these pages are also
provided. This content, plus download links and a contact form, are
available from the <a href="https://software.sil.org/charis/">Charis
site</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a> — Information about this project
and SIL Global</li>
<li><a href="v7changes.html">Version 7 changes</a> — Summary of
significant changes in version 7</li>
<li><a href="resources.html">Resources</a> — Help with installation
and use</li>
<li><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> — Common questions and answers</li>
<li><a href="design.html">Design</a> — History and background of the
design</li>
<li><a href="charset.html">Character set support</a> — Details of
Unicode characters that are supported</li>
<li><a href="features.html">Font features</a> — Using smart font
features</li>
<li><a href="support.html">Support</a> — How to get additional
support</li>
<li><a href="developer.html">Developer information</a> — How to
modify and build the fonts</li>
<li><a href="versions.html">Versions</a> - Sources for alternate
versions</li>
<li><a href="history.html">Version history</a> - Complete version
history</li>
</ul>
<p>Additional information is also provided in other project files:
<a href="../README.txt">README.txt</a>, <a
href="../OFL.txt">OFL.txt</a>, <a
href="../OFL-FAQ.txt">OFL-FAQ.txt</a>, and <a
href="../FONTLOG.txt">FONTLOG.txt</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="requirements">Requirements</h2>
<p>These fonts are supported by all major operating systems (macOS,
Windows, Linux-based, iOS, and Android). However, the extent of that
support depends on the individual OS and application.</p>
<h2 id="installation">Installation</h2>
<p>Install the fonts by decompressing the .zip archive and
installing the fonts using the standard font installation process
for .ttf (TrueType/OpenType) fonts for your platform. For additional
tips see the help page on <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/installation">Font
installation</a>.</p>
<h2 id="keyboarding-and-character-set-support">Keyboarding and
character set support</h2>
<p>These fonts do not include keyboards or other software for
entering text. To type the symbols in these fonts use the
keyboarding systems provided in your OS or use a separate utility.
SILs <a href="https://keyman.com/">Keyman</a> provides keyboards
for over 2000 languages and works on all major desktop and mobile
platforms. For information on other keyboarding options see the
overview at <a
href="https://scriptsource.org/entry/ytr8g8n6sw">Keyboard Systems
Overview (ScriptSource)</a>.</p>
<p>See <a href="charset.html">Character set support</a> for details
of the Unicode characters supported by these fonts.</p>
<h2 id="rendering-and-application-support">Rendering and application
support</h2>
<p>These fonts will work normally like any other fonts in most
applications. If the writing system requires special diacritic
positioning the application/OS will need to support OpenType.</p>
<p>These fonts also include extensive OpenType features for small
caps, literacy forms, character alernates and language-specific
preferences. For information on the specific features available in
these fonts see <a href="features.html">Font features</a>.</p>
<p>If special font features are to be activated, the application
will need to provide a way to turn on the feature or choose the
feature setting. Details of current application support, and
specific techniques for activating features, are on the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/features">Using Font
Features</a> help page.</p>
<p>Although the current fonts support only OpenType, previous
versions provided support for Graphite and AAT (Apple Advanced
Typography) technologies. Graphite was supported through version 5
and AAT was supported up to version 4. These older versions remain
available from our <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/download/previous-versions">Previous
Versions archive</a>.</p>
<h2 id="typetuner">TypeTuner</h2>
<p>The <a
href="https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi">TypeTuner
Web</a> service allows you to choose smart font features and
download a font with those features preset. This enables them to
work in many applications that do not fully support OpenType.</p>
<h2 id="web-fonts">Web fonts</h2>
<p>Web font versions of these fonts (in WOFF and WOFF2 formats) are
available in the <code>web</code> folder. These can be copied to a
web server and used as fonts on web pages. A very basic HTML/CSS
demo page is also included. For more information on the options and
techniques available for using these fonts on web pages see <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts">Using SIL Fonts on
Web Pages</a>.</p>
<h2 id="text-conversion">Text conversion</h2>
<p>These fonts are encoded according to <a
href="https://unicode.org">The Unicode Standard</a>. If you have
text that uses a legacy, non-Unicode encoding there are tools that
can help you convert that text for use with Unicode fonts. See <a
href="https://scriptsource.org/entry/xlzd6n5aqt">Introduction to
Text Conversion and Transliteration</a>.</p>
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title: Charis - About
fontversion: 7.000
---
## About this project
This project is intended to provide a free and open font family for all current languages and writing systems that use Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It supports almost the complete range of Unicode characters for these scripts, including a comprehensive range of diacritics and a large set of symbols useful for linguistics and literacy work. Smart font routines automatically adjust the position of diacritics to support and optimize arbitrary base+diacritic combinations.
For more information on the visual characteristics of the font family see [Design](design.md).
For a comparison between this and other SIL fonts, see [Comparison of Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic fonts](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/support/comparison/).
## Future plans
These fonts are actively maintained and improved, and recent changes to their development process will enable more frequent releases.
The highest priorities for future additions and enhancements are mainly driven by:
- New additions to [The Unicode Standard](https://unicode.org/)
- Requests from language communities using the fonts
- Needs of the linguistic and academic community
Although some expert typographic features are supported (e.g. small caps), those are a lesser priority.
Please send us your requests using the [form on the font website](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/). If you are interested in helping us make the fonts better, see the [Developer](developer.md) page.
## Announcement list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our [SIL Font News Announcement List](https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sil.org/forum/#!forum/sil-font-news). This is an announcement-only list with messages approximately once a month. It does not allow any discussion.
You can subscribe using either of the two following options.
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Release 6.200 - New features and additional character support
This release is focused on adding features and 240+ glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode 14 and 15. It does not include significant changes to line spacing, glyph widths, or kerning that might cause document reflow or layout changes—except for minor improvements to the size and weight of superscript, subscript, and modifier letters.
Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the [Download page](https://software.sil.org/charis/download). Special-purpose fonts are available from a [dedicated page](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/).
The next major version (7) will address some complex pending issues and features and may include substantial changes to line spacing, glyph metrics, kerning, and even font family structure. If you have any requests for future versions please contact us as soon as possible.
#### New features, including *TypeTuner Web* support
- Feature to display alternate design of clicks that sit on baseline
- Baseline clicks (cv69)
- Standard 'subs' and 'sups' features for numerals. These are not supported by *TypeTuner Web*.
- Subscript numerals (subs)
- Superscript numerals (sups)
- Feature to automatically construct fractions when using U+002F SOLIDUS or U+2044 FRACTION SLASH. This is not supported by *TypeTuner Web*.
- Automatic fractions (frac)
#### New character support
- Additional click (also supported by new baseline clicks feature)
- U+2980 TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR DELIMITER
- Letters used for legacy Malayalam transliteration
- U+1DF25 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF26 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF27 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF28 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF29 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF2A LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- Letters used for Egyptological transliteration
- U+A7BA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL A
- U+A7BB LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL A
- U+A7BC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL I
- U+A7BD LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL I
- U+A7BE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL U
- U+A7BF LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL U
- Combining marks
- U+1ABF COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER W BELOW
- U+1AC0 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W BELOW
- U+1AC6 COMBINING NUMBER SIGN ABOVE
- U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE
- U+1AC8 COMBINING PLUS SIGN ABOVE
- U+1AC9 COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN ABOVE
- U+1ACA COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN BELOW
- U+1ACB COMBINING TRIPLE ACUTE ACCENT
- U+1ACC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G
- U+1ACD COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR R
- U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T
- U+1DDA COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER G
- U+1DDC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER K
- U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW
- Combining marks that are not recommended for normal use and may not combine well with letters. Precomposed characters that include the hook should be used instead except in rare cases.
- U+0321 COMBINING PALATALIZED HOOK BELOW
- U+0322 COMBINING RETROFLEX HOOK BELOW
- Modifier letters and symbols
- U+A7F2 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL C
- U+A7F3 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL F
- U+A7F4 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL Q
- U+AB69 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED W
- U+AB6A MODIFIER LETTER LEFT TACK
- U+AB6B MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT TACK
- U+10780 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL AA
- U+10781 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT TRIANGULAR COLON
- U+10782 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT HALF TRIANGULAR COLON
- U+10784 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL B
- U+10785 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL B WITH HOOK
- U+10787 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH
- U+10788 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+10789 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH CURL
- U+1078A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DEZH DIGRAPH
- U+1078B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH TAIL
- U+1078C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK
- U+1078D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK AND TAIL
- U+10790 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL FENG DIGRAPH
- U+10792 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G
- U+10793 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL G WITH HOOK
- U+10794 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK
- U+10796 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL H
- U+10797 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG WITH HOOK
- U+10798 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK
- U+10799 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LS DIGRAPH
- U+1079A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LZ DIGRAPH
- U+1079B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH BELT
- U+1079C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT
- U+1079D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT
- U+1079E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH
- U+1079F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107A1 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y WITH BELT
- U+107A4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED OMEGA
- U+107A5 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Q
- U+107A6 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG
- U+107A7 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107A8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH TAIL
- U+107A9 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH FISHHOOK
- U+107AA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL R
- U+107AB MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL
- U+107AC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH
- U+107AD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107AE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TESH DIGRAPH
- U+107AF MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107B0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL V WITH RIGHT HOOK
- U+107B3 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE
- U+107B4 MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE
- U+107B5 MODIFIER LETTER BILABIAL CLICK
- U+107B6 MODIFIER LETTER DENTAL CLICK
- U+107B7 MODIFIER LETTER LATERAL CLICK
- U+107B8 MODIFIER LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK
- U+107B9 MODIFIER LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107BA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL S WITH CURL
- Cyrillic modifier letters, subscripts, and combining marks
- U+1E030 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL A
- U+1E031 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BE
- U+1E032 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL VE
- U+1E033 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL GHE
- U+1E034 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL DE
- U+1E035 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL IE
- U+1E036 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZHE
- U+1E037 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZE
- U+1E038 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL I
- U+1E039 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL KA
- U+1E03A MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EL
- U+1E03B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EM
- U+1E03C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL O
- U+1E03D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PE
- U+1E03E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ER
- U+1E03F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES
- U+1E040 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TE
- U+1E041 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL U
- U+1E042 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EF
- U+1E043 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL HA
- U+1E044 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TSE
- U+1E045 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL CHE
- U+1E046 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SHA
- U+1E047 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YERU
- U+1E048 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL E
- U+1E049 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YU
- U+1E04B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SCHWA
- U+1E04C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- U+1E04D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL JE
- U+1E04E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BARRED O
- U+1E04F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U
- U+1E050 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PALOCHKA
- U+1E051 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER A
- U+1E052 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BE
- U+1E053 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER VE
- U+1E054 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE
- U+1E055 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DE
- U+1E056 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER IE
- U+1E057 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZHE
- U+1E058 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZE
- U+1E059 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER I
- U+1E05A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER KA
- U+1E05B CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EL
- U+1E05C CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER O
- U+1E05D CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER PE
- U+1E05E CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ES
- U+1E05F CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER U
- U+1E060 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EF
- U+1E061 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HA
- U+1E062 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER TSE
- U+1E063 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHE
- U+1E064 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER SHA
- U+1E065 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
- U+1E066 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER YERU
- U+1E067 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN
- U+1E068 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- U+1E069 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZE
- U+1E06A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZHE
- U+1E06B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES WITH DESCENDER
- U+1E06D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U WITH STROKE
- U+1E08F COMBINING CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- Miscellaneous letters
- U+A7C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7C8 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7C9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7CA LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+AB66 LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+AB67 LATIN SMALL LETTER TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+AB68 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH MIDDLE TILDE
- Symbols
- U+2031 PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN
- U+203D INTERROBANG
- U+203E OVERLINE
- U+2042 ASTERISM
- U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET
- U+20C0 SOM SIGN
- U+218A TURNED DIGIT TWO
- U+218B TURNED DIGIT THREE
- U+21B6 ANTICLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW
- U+21B7 CLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW
- U+21BA ANTICLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- U+21BB CLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- U+2215 DIVISION SLASH
- U+2221 MEASURED ANGLE
- U+2227 LOGICAL AND
- U+2228 LOGICAL OR
- U+226E NOT LESS-THAN
- U+226F NOT GREATER-THAN
- U+2318 PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN
- U+25C9 FISHEYE
- U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE
- U+2610 BALLOT BOX
- U+2611 BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK
- U+2612 BALLOT BOX WITH X
- U+2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE
- U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE
- U+2713 CHECK MARK
- U+2717 BALLOT X
- U+27C2 PERPENDICULAR
- U+2AFD DOUBLE SOLIDUS OPERATOR
- U+2E3E WIGGLY VERTICAL LINE
- U+1F12F COPYLEFT SYMBOL
- U+1F610 NEUTRAL FACE
#### Improvements and fixes
- Kayan diacritics feature (cv79) now supported by TypeTuner Web
- Combining letters, modifier letters, superscripts, and subscripts have been made more consistent in size and weight
- Encoding fixed for U+1078E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED E
- Size increased for:
- U+02BE MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING
- U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING
- U+02D2 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED RIGHT HALF RING
- U+02D3 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED LEFT HALF RING
- U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR is now included in single-story/double-story features
- The combination of U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK forms a ligature
- Small cap form corrected for U+A78D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED H / U+0265 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H
- U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK repositioned to middle leg of U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M
- Diacritic positioning improved for U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- Diacritic positioning improved for U+2183 ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED
- Position of dot changed for U+1E23 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DOT ABOVE

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---
title: Charis - Character Set Support
fontversion: 7.000
---
This font supports over 2,400 characters from [The Unicode Standard](https://unicode.org/) as well as a number of [Private Use Area (PUA)](https://github.com/silnrsi/unicode-resources/tree/main/sil-pua) characters. In total, over 3,800 glyphs are included, supporting stylistic alternates for a number of characters as well as a large number of ligated sequences (e.g., contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).
## Supported characters
The following character ranges are supported by this font:
Unicode block | Charis support
------------- | ---------------
C0 Controls and Basic Latin*|U+0020..U+007E
C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement*|U+00A0..U+00FF
Latin Extended-A|U+0100..U+0148, U+014A..U+017F
Latin Extended-B*|U+0180..U+024F
IPA Extensions*|U+0250..U+02AF
Spacing Modifier Letters*|U+02B0..U+02FF
Combining Diacritical Marks|U+0300..U+033F, U+0346..U+036F
Greek and Coptic|U+0387, U+0393..U+0394, U+0398, U+039E, U+03A0, U+03A8..U+03A9, U+03B1..U+03B4, U+03B8, U+03BB..U+03BC, U+03C0..U+03C1, U+03C3, U+03C6..U+03C7, U+03C9, U+03D1, U+03F4
Cyrillic|U+0400..U+045F, U+0462..U+0463, U+0472..U+0475, U+048A..U+04FF
Cyrillic Supplement*|U+0500..U+052F
Combining Diacritical Marks Extended|U+1AB0..U+1ABA. U+1ABF..U+1AC0, U+1AC6..U+1ACE
Cyrillic Extended-C|U+1C89..U+1C8A
Phonetic Extensions*|U+1D00..U+1D7F
Phonetic Extensions Supplement*|U+1D80..U+1DBF
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement|U+1DC2, U+1DC4..U+1DCD, U+1DDA, U+1DDC, U+1DF5, U+1DFC..U+1DFF
Latin Extended Additional*|U+1E00..U+1EFF
General Punctuation|U+2000..U+2042, U+2044, U+204A, U+2053, U+2057, U+2060..U+2063, U+206A..U+206F
Superscripts and Subscripts*|U+2070..U+2071, U+2074..U+208E, U+2090..U+209C
Currency Symbols*|U+20A0..U+20C0
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols|U+20E5, U+20EC..U+20EF
Letterlike Symbols|U+210C, U+2113, U+2116..U+2117, U+211F, U+2122..U+2123, U+2126, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F
Number Forms*|U+2150..U+218B
Arrows|U+2190..U+219B, U+21A8, U+21AE, U+21B6..U+21B7, U+21BA..U+21BB, U+21D0..U+21D5
Mathematical Operators|U+2202..U+2206, U+220F, U+2211..U+2213, U+2215, U+2219..U+221A, U+221E, U+2221, U+2225..U+2228, U+222B, U+2234..U+2235, U+223C, U+2248, U+225F, U+2260..U+2262, U+2264..U+2265, U+226E..U+226F, U+U+2282..U+2287, U+22BB..U+22BD
Miscellaneous Technical|U+2308..U+230B, U+2318, U+231C..U+231F, U+2329..U+232A, U+239B..U+23AD, U+23D1..U+23D6
Control Pictures|U+2423
Enclosed Alphanumerics|U+24B6, U+24D0
Geometric Shapes|U+25C9, U+25CA..U+25CC
Miscellaneous Symbols|U+2610..U+2612, U+2639..U+263A, U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F
Dingbats|U+2713, U+2717, U+274D
Misc. Math. Symbols-A|U+27C2, U+27E6..U+27EB
Misc. Math. Symbols-B|U+2980
Supplemental Math. Operators|U+2AFD
Latin Extended-C*|U+2C60..U+2C7F
Coptic|U+2C88..U+2C89
Supplemental Punctuation|U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E13..U+2E15, U+2E17, U+2E22..U+2E25, U+2E28..U+2E29, U+2E3A..U+2E3B, U+2E3D..U+2E3E
Cyrillic Extended-B|U+A69C..U+A69D
Modifier Tone Letters*|U+A700..U+A71F
Latin Extended-D|U+A720..U+A799, U+A7A0..U+A7AF, U+A7B0..U+A7BF, U+A7C4..U+A7CD, U+A7DA..U+A7DC, U+A7F2..U+A7F4, U+A7F7..U+A7FF
Kayah Li|U+A92E
Latin Extended-E|U+AB30, U+AB53, U+AB5C, U+AB5E, U+AB64..U+AB6B
PUA: Specials|U+F130..U+F133
PUA: Modifier letters (e.g. superscripts)|U+F1A1, U+F1A3..U+F1A4, U+F1AB, U+F1AE, U+F1B4..U+F1B5, U+F1BC, U+F1CD..U+F1CE, U+F1F1..U+F1F9
PUA: Latin|U+F20D, U+F234..U+F235, U+F258..U+F259, U+F267..U+F269, U+F26C..U+F26D
PUA: Cyrillic|U+F326..U+F327
Alphabetic Presentation Forms|U+FB00..U+FB04
Variation Selectors*|U+FE00..U+FE0F
Combining Half Marks|U+FE20..U+FE23
Arabic Presentation Forms-B|U+FEFF (zero-width no-break space)
Specials*|U+FFF9..U+FFFD
Latin Extended-F*|U+10780..U+10785, U+10787..U+107B0, U+107B2..U+107BA
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols|U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D510, U+1D513..U+1D514, U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519
Latin Extended-G*|U+1DF00..U+1DF1E, U+1DF25..U+1DF2A
Cyrillic Extended-D|U+1E030..U+1E049, U+1E04B..U+1E06B, U+1E06D, U+1E06F
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement|U+1F12F
Emoticons|U+1F610
*This block is fully supported as of Unicode 15.0.
## Private-use (PUA) characters
There are a number of private-use characters that are supported in this font. These conform to [SIL Globals corporate registry](https://github.com/silnrsi/unicode-resources/tree/main/sil-pua) for usage of the Unicode private-use areas. Characters which are not yet in Unicode are shown below.
### Specials
- U+F130 FONT BASELINE AND SIDE-BEARING MARKER LEFT
- U+F131 FONT BASELINE AND SIDE-BEARING MARKER RIGHT
- U+F132 FONT VERTICAL METRICS MARKER LEFT
- U+F133 FONT VERTICAL METRICS MARKER RIGHT
### Modifier Letters
- U+F1CD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL U BAR
### Latin
- U+F20D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE AND HOOK
- U+F258 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I OVER SMALL SCHWA
- U+F259 LATIN LETTER SMALL UPSILON OVER SMALL SCHWA
- U+F26D LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH LEFT HOOK
### Cyrillic
- U+F326 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER
- U+F327 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER
### Deprecated SIL Corporate PUA characters
Some characters formerly in the PUA have been added to Unicode, and so have been deprecated in our fonts. Those PUA characters are displayed as black boxes containing a white image of the deprecated glyph.

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---
title: Charis - Design
fontversion: 7.000
---
Charis is optimized for readability in long printed documents. It is highly readable and holds up well in less-than-ideal reproduction environments due to its simple and robust design with strong serifs and clear features.
![Charis Sample - Precomposed Latin Diacritics](../assets/images/CharisTypePage.png){.fullsize}
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<figcaption>Charis Sample - Precomposed Latin Diacritics</figcaption>
For a complete list of characters included in Charis, see [Character Set Support](charset.md).
### Note regarding Charter
This Charis font is essentially the same design as the SIL Charis font first released by SIL in 1997. The design of the basic character set of Charis is similar (but not identical) to Bitstream Charter, designed by Matthew Carter. The following notice accompanied the Charter fonts:
> © Copyright 1989-1992, Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA.
>
> You are hereby granted permission under all Bitstream propriety rights to use, copy, modify, sublicense, sell, and redistribute the 4 Bitstream Charter® Type 1 outline fonts and the 4 Courier Type 1 outline fonts for any purpose and without restriction; provided, that this notice is left intact on all copies of such fonts and that Bitstream's trademark is acknowledged as shown below on all unmodified copies of the 4 Charter Type 1 fonts.
>
> BITSTREAM CHARTER is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc.
SIL Global is the creator of the Charis fonts, and is the owner of all proprietary rights therein.
*Charis* is a trademark of SIL Global.

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---
title: Charis - Developer information
fontversion: 7.000
---
## Welcome font developers!
We welcome other developers who wish to get involved in supporting and enhancing these fonts or who want to modify them.
## Permissions granted by the OFL
SILs fonts are licensed according to the terms of the [SIL Open Font License](https://openfontlicense.org). The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. For details see the OFL.txt and OFL-FAQ.txt files in the package.
## Building the fonts from source code
The full source code for our Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic fonts is available on Github:
- [Charis Github repository](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis)
- [Doulos SIL Github repository](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-doulos)
- [Gentium Github repository](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-gentium)
- [Andika Github repository](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-andika)
Font sources are in the [UFO3](https://unifiedfontobject.org/versions/ufo3/) format with font family structures defined using [designspace](https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/tree/master/Doc/source/designspaceLib). OpenType source code is stored in the [.fea](https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko/OpenTypeFeatureFileSpecification.html) format in the UFO (features.fea) but is maintained in a separate file using the more efficient and powerful [.feax](hhttps://github.com/silnrsi/feax/blob/main/docs/feaextensions.md) format.
The fonts are built using a completely free and open source workflow using industry-standard tools ([fonttools](https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools)), a package of custom python scripts ([pysilfont](https://github.com/silnrsi/pysilfont)), and a build and packaging system ([Smith](https://github.com/silnrsi/smith)). The whole toolchain is available as a Docker container.
Full instructions for setting up the tools and building SIL fonts are available on a dedicated web site: [SIL Font Development Notes](https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/).
## Contributing to the project
We warmly welcome contributions to the fonts, such as new glyphs, enhanced smart font code, or bug fixes. The [brief overview of contributing changes](https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Contributing_Changes.html) is a good place to begin. The next step is to contact us by responding to an existing issue or creating an issue in the Github repository and expressing your interest. We can then work together to plan and integrate your contributions.
Here are a few examples of contributions that would be welcomed (some more than others):
- Historic/Archaic Cyrillic
- Mathematical glyphs
- Additional scripts (Armenian, etc.), and any needed OpenType code
Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality for our fonts, we will review submissions carefully. Contributions will need to cover all the weights and styles of the family and in some cases all four font projects. Please dont be discouraged if we do not include a submission due to quality or incompleteness, or if we ask you to make specific revisions.
To enable us to accept contributions in a way that honors your contribution and respects your copyright while preserving long-term flexibility for open source licensing, you would also need to agree to the **SIL Global Contributor License Agreement for Font Software (v1.1)** prior to sending us your contribution. To read more about this requirement and find out how to submit the required form, please visit the [CLA information page](https://software.sil.org/fontcla).

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title: Charis - Frequently Asked Questions
fontversion: 7.000
---
Many questions can be answered by consulting the following FAQ pages. Here are a few sample questions answered in each FAQ:
- [SIL fonts in general](https://software.sil.org/fonts/faq)
- *How can I type...?*
- *How can I use font features?*
- *Will you add support for character...?*
- *Will you add support for script...?*
- *WIll you help me...?*
- [SILs Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/faq).
- *How can I type IPA symbols?*
- *How do I use both a single-story and double-story 'a' in italic?*
- *Why dont my diacritics position properly?*
- *Why is the line spacing so much looser than other fonts?*
- *Ive updated my font to the latest version and some letters have become black boxes with white letters - why?*
- [The SIL Open Font License (OFL-FAQ)](https://openfontlicense.org/ofl-faq)
- *Can I use this font for...?*
- *Can I modify the font and then include it in...*
- *If I use the font on a web page do I have to include an acknowledgement?*
- The full OFL-FAQ.txt is also included in the font package.
Here are a few of the most frequently asked questions specifically regarding Charis:
#### *Why did you change the font family name to only Charis?*
The version 7 reduction of default line spacing and addition of kerning would have caused most documents that used Charis SIL to reflow. This would have caused significant pain for users who wanted to use the new version but also had large collections of existing documents that would reflow. Changing the name to only Charis allows both old and new font families to be installed at the same time and eases the transition to the new version.
#### *Why did you stop producing Compact versions?*
Improvements to both these fonts and industry font technology has reduced the need for *Compact* versions. The reduced default line spacing in v7 enables many users of *Compact* variants to switch to using the standard fonts, and allows documents to be shared without requiring special fonts. If tight or loose line spacing is needed the best solution is to use the standard fonts and explicitly set the line spacing in your application. If the application does not allow user-specified line spacing the [v6.2 Compact fonts remain available](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/). Please also contact the app developer to request that they give users better control over line spacing.
#### *Where are the Literacy versions?*
We have not prepared pre-tuned *Literacy* versions of the version 7 fonts. The standard fonts include the literacy forms, which can be turned on in many applications and on web pages using OpenType stylistic sets (`ss01`, `ss11`, `ss12`) — see [Using Font Features](https://software.sil.org/fonts/features) and [Using SIL Fonts on Web Pages](https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts). If your application does not allow you to control these features the [v6.2 Literacy fonts remain available](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/). Please also contact the app developer to request that they give users access to OpenType stylistic sets.
#### *Is there a guide to the many versions of Charis and its variants?*
Yes! See the [Versions](versions.md) page.
#### *Why does my application not show the Bold weight in font menus and dialogs?*
Some applications will list all the weights but leave out Bold. To access the Bold you need to choose Regular and turn on Bold using the applications UI controls such as a “B” button. See our [Font Help Guide on Axis-Based Font Families](https://software.sil.org/fonts/axis-based-fonts/) for more information.
#### *Why do I sometimes get a fake Bold?*
If you choose a weight other than Regular (such as Medium), and then use application controls to turn on Bold, some applications will make a “fake” Bold rather than use one of the real ones in the font (SemiBold, Bold). This is because only Regular has an associated Bold counterpart. This is a technical limitation with some apps and OSes. If you are using a weight other than Regular for text and want to make a word or phrase stand out, you will need to select the text and apply one of the heavier weights manually. See our [Font Help Guide on Axis-Based Font Families](https://software.sil.org/fonts/axis-based-fonts/) for more information.
#### *Why does the font have some Greek characters, but not all?*
Although Charis includes some Greek characters, it is not intended to provide general support for the Greek language. The Greek characters that are included are there to support various notational systems (linguistic, logical, mathematical). Other fonts, such as [Gentium](https://software.sil.org/gentium), provide complete Greek script support.
#### *Will you add full Greek script support?*
We have no plans to do that, however the [OFL licensing](https://openfontlicense.org_web) allows anyone to add Greek support and freely distribute the font to others. It is even possible to [contribute that work back to the project](developer.md) and share it with others.
#### *Isnt Charis just a copy of Charter?*
Charis is very closely based on the design of Bitstream Charter. However the glyphs were completely redrawn based only on visual reference to Charter. There are some significant design differences in the serif structure, proportions, diacritics, and Cyrillic. The design was also adjusted and extended to cover a much wider range of characters and publishing needs.

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title: Charis - Font Features
fontversion: 7.000
---
Charis is an OpenType-enabled font family that supports the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It includes a number of optional features that may be useful or required for particular uses or languages. This document lists all the available features.
These OpenType features are primarily specified using four-letter tags (e.g. 'cv17'), although some applications may provide a direct way to control certain common features such as small caps. For more information on how to access OpenType features in specific environments and applications, see [Using Font Features](https://software.sil.org/fonts/features).
This page uses web fonts (WOFF2) to demonstrate font features and should display correctly in all modern browsers. For a more concise example of how to use Charis as a web font see *Charis-webfont-example.html* in the font package *web* folder. For detailed information see [Using SIL Fonts on Web Pages](https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts).
*If this document is not displaying correctly a PDF version is also provided in the documentation/pdf folder of the release package.*
## Complete feature list
### Stylistic alternates
#### Small caps from lowercase <a id="scmp"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: all lowercase letters with capital equivalents and some bracketing punctuation</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>a ... z</span> (all letters with capital equivalents) ( ) [ ] { } | `smcp=0`
Small caps | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "smcp" 1'>a ... z</span> (all letters with capital equivalents) ( ) [ ] { } | `smcp=1`
#### Small caps from capitals <a id="c2sc"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: all capitals</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>A ... Z</span> (all capitals) | `c2sc=0`
Small caps | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "c2sc" 1'>A ... Z</span> (all capitals) | `c2sc=1`
#### Single-story a and g <a id="ss01"></a>
*This feature was formerly called 'Literacy alternates'.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0061 U+00AA U+00E0 U+00E1 U+00E2 U+00E3 U+00E4 U+00E5 U+0101 U+0103 U+0105 U+01CE U+01DF U+01E1 U+01FB U+0201 U+0203 U+0227 U+1E01 U+1E9A U+1EA1 U+1EA3 U+1EA5 U+1EA7 U+1EA9 U+1EAB U+1EAD U+1EAF U+1EB1 U+1EB3 U+1EB5 U+1EB7 U+2C65 U+2090 U+1D43 U+0363 U+0067 U+011D U+011F U+0121 U+0123 U+01E7 U+01F5 U+01E5 U+1E21 U+A7A1 U+1D4D</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>a ª à á â ã ä å ā ă ą ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ạ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ặ ⱥ ₐ ᵃ ◌ͣ g ĝ ğ ġ ģ ǧ ǵ ǥ ḡ ꞡ ᵍ </span> | `ss01=0`
Single-story | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "ss01" 1'>a ª à á â ã ä å ā ă ą ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ạ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ặ ⱥ ₐ ᵃ ◌ͣ g ĝ ğ ġ ģ ǧ ǵ ǥ ḡ ꞡ ᵍ </span> | `ss01=1`
#### Single-story a (only) <a id="ss11"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0061 U+00AA U+00E0 U+00E1 U+00E2 U+00E3 U+00E4 U+00E5 U+0101 U+0103 U+0105 U+01CE U+01DF U+01E1 U+01FB U+0201 U+0203 U+0227 U+1E01 U+1E9A U+1EA1 U+1EA3 U+1EA5 U+1EA7 U+1EA9 U+1EAB U+1EAD U+1EAF U+1EB1 U+1EB3 U+1EB5 U+1EB7 U+2C65 U+2090 U+1D43 U+0363</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>a ª à á â ã ä å ā ă ą ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ạ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ặ ⱥ ₐ ᵃ ◌ͣ </span> | `ss11=0`
Single-story | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "ss11" 1'>a ª à á â ã ä å ā ă ą ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ạ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ặ ⱥ ₐ ᵃ ◌ͣ </span> | `ss11=1`
#### Single-story g (only) <a id="ss12"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0067 U+011D U+011F U+0121 U+0123 U+01E7 U+01F5 U+01E5 U+1E21 U+A7A1 U+1D4D</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>g ĝ ğ ġ ģ ǧ ǵ ǥ ḡ ꞡ ᵍ </span> | `ss12=0`
Single-story | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "ss12" 1'>g ĝ ğ ġ ģ ǧ ǵ ǥ ḡ ꞡ ᵍ </span> | `ss12=1`
#### Barred-bowl forms <a id="ss04"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0111 U+0180 U+01E5</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>đ ƀ ǥ</span> | `ss04=0`
Barred-bowl | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "ss04" 1'>đ ƀ ǥ</span> | `ss04=1`
#### Slant italic specials <a id="ss05"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0061 U+00E3 U+00E0 U+00E1 U+00E2 U+00E4 U+00E5 U+0101 U+0103 U+01CE U+01DF U+01E1 U+01FB U+0201 U+0203 U+0227 U+1E01 U+1E9A U+1EA3 U+1EA5 U+1EA7 U+1EA9 U+1EAB U+1EAD U+1EAF U+1EB1 U+1EB3 U+1EB5 U+1EA1 U+1EB7 U+2C65 U+0250 U+00E6 U+0066 U+1E1F U+0069 U+00EC U+00ED U+00EE U+00EF U+0129 U+012B U+012D U+012F U+01D0 U+0209 U+020B U+1E2D U+1E2F U+1EC9 U+1ECB U+0131 U+006C U+013A U+1E37 U+1E39 U+1E3B U+1E3D U+0076 U+1E7D U+1E7F U+007A U+017A U+017C U+017E U+1E91 U+1E93 U+1E95 U+0493 U+04FB U+F327 U+A749 U+A75F U+2097</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-I normal'>a ã à á â ä å ā ă ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ạ ặ ⱥ ɐ æ f ḟ i ì í î ï ĩ ī ĭ į ǐ ȉ ȋ ḭ ḯ ỉ ị ı l ĺ ḷ ḹ ḻ ḽ ꝉ ₗ v ṽ ṿ ꝟ z ź ż ž ẑ ẓ ẕ ғ ӻ  fi ffi</span> | `ss05=0`
Slanted | <span class='charis-I normal' style='font-feature-settings: "ss05" 1'>a ã à á â ä å ā ă ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ạ ặ ⱥ ɐ æ f ḟ i ì í î ï ĩ ī ĭ į ǐ ȉ ȋ ḭ ḯ ỉ ị ı l ĺ ḷ ḹ ḻ ḽ ꝉ ₗ v ṽ ṿ ꝟ z ź ż ž ẑ ẓ ẕ ғ ӻ  fi ffi</span> | `ss05=1`
### Character alternates
#### B hook <a id="cv13"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0181</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ɓ</span> | `cv13=0`
Lowercase-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv13" 1'>Ɓ</span> | `cv13=1`
#### D hook <a id="cv17"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+018A</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ɗ</span> | `cv17=0`
Lowercase-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv17" 1'>Ɗ</span> | `cv17=1`
#### H stroke <a id="cv28"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0126</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ħ</span> | `cv28=0`
Vertical stroke | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv28" 1'>Ħ</span> | `cv28=1`
#### J stroke hook <a id="cv37"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0284</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ʄ</span> | `cv37=0`
Top serif | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv37" 1'>ʄ</span> | `cv37=1`
#### Eng <a id="cv43"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+014A</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ŋ</span> | `cv43=0`
Lowercase style on baseline | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv43" 1'>Ŋ</span> | `cv43=1`
Uppercase style with descender | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv43" 2'>Ŋ</span> | `cv43=2`
Alt. lowercase style on baseline | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv43" 3'>Ŋ</span> | `cv43=3`
#### N left hook <a id="cv44"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+019D</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ɲ</span> | `cv44=0`
Uppercase-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv44" 1'>Ɲ</span> | `cv44=1`
#### Open-O <a id="cv46"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0186 U+0254 U+1D10 U+1D53 U+1D97</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ɔ ɔ ᴐ ᵓ ᶗ</span> | `cv46=0`
Top serif | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv46" 1'>Ɔ ɔ ᴐ ᵓ ᶗ</span> | `cv46=1`
#### OU <a id="cv47"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0222 U+0223 U+1D3D U+1D15</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ȣ ȣ ᴕ ᴽ</span> | `cv47=0`
Open | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv47" 1'>Ȣ ȣ ᴕ ᴽ</span> | `cv47=1`
#### p hook <a id="cv49"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01A5</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ƥ</span> | `cv49=0`
Right hook | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv49" 1'>ƥ</span> | `cv49=1`
#### R tail <a id="cv55"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+2C64</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'></span> | `cv55=0`
Lowercase-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv55" 1'></span> | `cv55=1`
#### T hook <a id="cv57"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01AC</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ƭ</span> | `cv57=0`
Right hook | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv57" 1'>Ƭ</span> | `cv57=1`
#### V hook <a id="cv62"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01B2 U+028B U+1DB9</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ʋ ʋ</span> | `cv62=0`
Straight with low hook | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv62" 1'>Ʋ ʋ</span> | `cv62=1`
Straight with high hook | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv62" 2'>Ʋ ʋ</span> | `cv62=2`
#### Y hook <a id="cv68"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01B3</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ƴ</span> | `cv68=0`
Left hook | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv68" 1'>Ƴ</span> | `cv68=1`
#### Ezh <a id="cv20"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01B7 U+04E0</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ʒ Ӡ</span> | `cv20=0`
Reversed sigma | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv20" 1'>Ʒ Ӡ</span> | `cv20=1`
#### ezh curl <a id="cv19"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0293</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ʓ</span> | `cv19=0`
Large bowl | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv19" 1'>ʓ</span> | `cv19=1`
#### rams horn <a id="cv25"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0264 U+10791</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ɤ 𐞑</span> | `cv25=0`
Large bowl | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv25" 1'>ɤ 𐞑</span> | `cv25=1`
Small gamma | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv25" 2'>ɤ 𐞑</span> | `cv25=2`
#### Clicks <a id="cv69"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01C0 U+01C1 U+01C2 U+2980</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard (descending) | <span class='charis-R normal'>ǀ ǁ ǂ ⦀</span> | `cv69=0`
Baseline | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv69" 1'>ǀ ǁ ǂ ⦀</span> | `cv69=1`
### Diacritic and symbol alternates
#### Vietnamese-style diacritics <a id="cv75"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+1EA4 U+1EA5 U+1EA6 U+1EA7 U+1EA8 U+1EA9 U+1EAA U+1EAB U+1EAE U+1EAF U+1EB0 U+1EB1 U+1EB2 U+1EB3 U+1EB4 U+1EB5 U+1EBE U+1EBF U+1EC0 U+1EC1 U+1EC2 U+1EC3 U+1EC4 U+1EC5 U+1ED0 U+1ED1 U+1ED2 U+1ED3 U+1ED4 U+1ED5 U+1ED6 U+1ED7</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ấấ Ầầ Ẩẩ Ẫẫ Ắắ Ằằ Ẳẳ Ẵẵ Ếế Ềề Ểể Ễễ Ốố Ồồ Ổổ Ỗỗ</span> | `cv75=0`
Vietnamese-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv75" 1'>Ấấ Ầầ Ẩẩ Ẫẫ Ắắ Ằằ Ẳẳ Ẵẵ Ếế Ềề Ểể Ễễ Ốố Ồồ Ổổ Ỗỗ</span> | `cv75=1`
#### Kayan diacritics <a id="cv79"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0300 U+0301</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>◌̀́</span> | `cv79=0`
Side by side | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv79" 1'>◌̀́</span> | `cv79=1`
#### Ogonek <a id="cv76"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0328 U+0104 U+0105 U+0118 U+0119 U+012E U+012F U+0172 U+0173 U+01EA U+01EB U+01EC U+01ED</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>anything with ◌̨ (Ąą Ęę Įį Ųų Ǫǫ Ǭǭ)</span> | `cv76=0`
Straight | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv76" 1'>anything with ◌̨ (Ąą Ęę Įį Ųų Ǫǫ Ǭǭ)</span> | `cv76=1`
#### Caron <a id="cv77"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+010F U+013D U+013E U+0165</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ď Ľ ľ ť</span> | `cv77=0`
Global-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv77" 1'>ď Ľ ľ ť</span> | `cv77=1`
#### Modifier apostrophe <a id="cv70"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+02BB U+02BC U+02BD U+0312 U+0314 U+A78B U+A78C</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ʻ ʼ ʽ ◌̒ ◌̔ Ꞌ </span> | `cv70=0`
Large | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv70" 1'>ʻ ʼ ʽ ◌̒ ◌̔ Ꞌ </span> | `cv70=1`
#### Modifier colon <a id="cv71"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+A789</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'></span> | `cv71=0`
Expanded | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv71" 1'></span> | `cv71=1`
#### Empty set <a id="cv98"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+2205</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'></span> | `cv98=0`
Zero-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv98" 1'></span> | `cv98=1`
### Cyrillic alternates
*There are also Cyrillic characters affected by the “Ezh” and “Small capitals” features. Some languages may also use the “Modifier apostrophe”.*
#### Cyrillic E <a id="cv80"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+042D U+044D</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Э э</span> | `cv80=0`
Mongolian-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv80" 1'>Э э</span> | `cv80=1`
#### Cyrillic shha <a id="cv81"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+04BB</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>һ</span> | `cv81=0`
Uppercase-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv81" 1'>һ</span> | `cv81=1`
#### Cyrillic breve <a id="cv82"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0306</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>anything with ◌̆ (Ә̆ә̆)</span> | `cv82=0`
Cyrillic-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv82" 1'>anything with ◌̆ (Ә̆ә̆)</span> | `cv82=1`
#### Serbian Cyrillic alternates <a id="langsr"></a>
*These alternate forms mainly affect italic styles. Unlike other features this is activated by tagging the span of text as being in the Serbian language, not by turning on an OpenType feature. It is also not available through TypeTuner Web although a similar feature is supported (cv84).*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0431 U+0433 U+0434 U+043F U+0442 U+0453</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-I normal'>б г д п т ѓ</span> |
Serbian | <span class='charis-I normal' lang='sr'>б г д п т ѓ</span> | `lang='sr'`
#### Macedonian Cyrillic alternates <a id="langmk"></a>
*These alternate forms mainly affect italic styles. Unlike other features this is activated by tagging the span of text as being in the Macedonian language, not by turning on an OpenType feature. It is also not available through TypeTuner Web although a similar feature is supported (cv84).*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0431 U+0433 U+0434 U+043F U+0442 U+0453</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-I normal'>б г д п т ѓ</span> |
Macedonian | <span class='charis-I normal' lang='mk'>б г д п т ѓ</span> | `lang='mk'`
#### Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic alternates <a id="cv84"></a>
*This feature provides an alternate way to activate the Serbian and Macedonian forms in applications that do not support language-specific features. It cannot, however, be used to explicitly turn off these forms in text tagged as being in the Serbian or Macedonian languages.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0431 U+0433 U+0434 U+043F U+0442 U+0453</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-I normal'>б г д п т ѓ</span> | `cv84=0`
Serbian Macedonian forms | <span class='charis-I normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv84" 1'>б г д п т ѓ</span> | `cv84=1`
### Tone alternates
#### Chinantec tones <a id="cv90"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+02CB U+02C8 U+02C9 U+02CA</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ˋ ˈ ˉ ˊ</span> | `cv90=0`
Chinantec-style | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv90" 1'>ˋ ˈ ˉ ˊ</span> | `cv90=1`
#### Tone numbers <a id="cv91"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+02E5 U+02E6 U+02E7 U+02E8 U+02E9 U+A712 U+A713 U+A714 U+A715 U+A716</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖</span> | `cv91=0`
Numbers | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv91" 1'>˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖</span> | `cv91=1`
#### Hide tone contour staves <a id="cv92"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+02E5 U+02E6 U+02E7 U+02E8 U+02E9 U+A712 U+A713 U+A714 U+A715 U+A716</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖ (˩˦˥˧˨ ꜖꜓꜒꜔꜕)</span> | `cv92=0`
Hide staves | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "cv92" 1'>˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖ (˩˦˥˧˨ ꜖꜓꜒꜔꜕)</span> | `cv92=1`
### Numeral alternates
#### Proportional oldstyle figures <a id="onum"></a>
*This feature only affects full-size numerals, not superscripts, subscripts, fractions, or numeral-based symbols.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0030 U+0031 U+0032 U+0033 U+0034 U+0035 U+0036 U+0037 U+0038 U+0039</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `onum=0`
Oldstyle | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "onum" 1'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `onum=1`
#### Subscript numerals <a id="subs"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0030 U+0031 U+0032 U+0033 U+0034 U+0035 U+0036 U+0037 U+0038 U+0039</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `subs=0`
Subscript | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "subs" 1'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `subs=1`
#### Superscript numerals <a id="sups"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0030 U+0031 U+0032 U+0033 U+0034 U+0035 U+0036 U+0037 U+0038 U+0039</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `sups=0`
Superscript | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "sups" 1'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `sups=1`
#### Automatic fractions <a id="frac"></a>
*When activated this feature will automatically create fractions when numerals are separated by either the fraction slash (U+2044) or the solidus (U+002F). This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0030 U+0031 U+0032 U+0033 U+0034 U+0035 U+0036 U+0037 U+0038 U+0039 U+002F U+2044</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard (none) | <span class='charis-R normal'>12 456789 1/2 456/789</span> | `frac=0`
Automatic | <span class='charis-R normal' style='font-feature-settings: "frac" 1'>12 456789 1/2 456/789</span> | `frac=1`
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title: Charis - Version History
fontversion: 7.000
---
### 2 Jun 2025 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis version 7.000
***Note that this is a major upgrade with significant changes to family structure, line spacing, and glyph metrics. Please read the following carefully to understand how the changes may affect you.***
#### Font names, family structure, and line metrics
- Font family names have changed. It is possible to have both this release (v7) and the previous one (v6.2) installed at the same time. This is a permanent change intended to help with the transition from v6.2 to v7.
- *Charis SIL* is now *Charis*
- There are additional intermediate weights. Previously existing weights have not changed. Here is a list, with retained weights in **bold** and new weights in *italic*. The CSS values for the weights within each family are in parentheses. Italic faces follow a similar structure and correspondence.
- **Charis Regular** (400)
- *Charis Medium* (500)
- *Charis SemiBold* (600)
- **Charis Bold** (700)
- The default line spacing has been significantly decreased to be more similar to other common text fonts, but remains wide enough to accommodate multiple stacked diacritics.
- There are no *Compact* variants. These are less needed since the default line spacing has been decreased. *Compact* versions of the v6.2 fonts remain available from https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/
- TypeTuner Web no longer offers line spacing alternatives for the v7 fonts (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the v6.2 fonts remain available and support line spacing alternatives.
- There are no pre-tuned regional or *Literacy* special-purpose modified variants. The v6.2 variants, including *Literacy* versions, remain available from https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/. You can still manually create v7 variants with TypeTuner Web that include literacy forms and other alternatives.
#### New features and enhancements
- Kerning has now been added and covers the full range of alphabetic symbols except for small caps (which will be included in a future update). **Warning: Because of the addition of extensive kerning, line, paragraph, and page lengths may be different from v6.2.**
- Proportional Oldstyle figures are now supported through the standard OpenType feature (`onum`). These only apply to the main numerals, not fractions, superscripts, or numeral-based symbols.
- The default form for capital N with left hook has been changed to the lowercase style to match the capital Eng. The related feature (`cv44`) has been changed to substitute the uppercase style form.
- U+019D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK
- Additions to Modifier Apostrophe feature (`cv70`)
- U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA
- U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA
- U+0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE
- U+0314 COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE
- Addition to Rams Horn feature (`cv25`)
- U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN
- Small caps added for these parentheses and brackets
- U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS
- U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS
- U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
- U+005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
- U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET
- U+007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
#### New character support
- Unicode 16 additions
- U+1C89 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE
- U+1C8A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE
- U+A7CB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RAMS HORN
- This was previously in the SIL PUA (U+F26E)
- U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
- U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
- U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA
- U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA
- U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
- Orthographic at signs
- U+24B6 CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
- U+24D0 CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A
- Additional Cyrillic modifiers
- U+A69C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC HARD SIGN
- U+A69D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN
- Case mapping for Coptic eie
- U+2C89 COPTIC SMALL LETTER EIE
- Upwards ancora (and revised downwards form)
- U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
- U+2E15 UPWARDS ANCORA
- Prosodic symbols
- U+23D1 METRICAL BREVE
- U+23D2 METRICAL LONG OVER SHORT
- U+23D3 METRICAL SHORT OVER LONG
- U+23D4 METRICAL LONG OVER TWO SHORTS
- U+23D5 METRICAL TWO SHORTS OVER LONG
- U+23D6 METRICAL TWO SHORTS JOINED
- U+2E3D VERTICAL SIX DOTS
- Doubled brackets and parentheses
- U+27EA MATHEMATICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
- U+27EB MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
- U+2E28 LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
- U+2E29 RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
- Logical symbols
- U+21AE LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE
- U+22BB XOR
- U+22BC NAND
- U+22BD NOR
#### Improvements and fixes
- Support added for complex positioning of bridging double diacritics and nearby marks. Correct rendering requires a very specific encoding sequence - see https://software.sil.org/fonts/bridging-diacritics/
- U+035C COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW
- U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE
- U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON
- U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW
- U+0360 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE
- U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE
- U+0362 COMBINING DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW
- U+1DCD COMBINING DOUBLE CIRCUMFLEX ABOVE
- U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW
- U+F17A COMBINING DOUBLE DIAERESIS (in SIL PUA)
- Redesigned Central European carons
- U+010F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
- U+013D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
- U+013E LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
- U+0165 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
- Revised hooked letters to improve spacing (including kerning) and reduce collisions. Some collisions have been retained to reduce unwanted whitespace within words (e.g. ƴk).
- U+0188 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH HOOK
- U+01A5 LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH HOOK
- U+01AD LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK
- U+01B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH HOOK
- U+01B4 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH HOOK
- U+0260 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH HOOK
- U+02A0 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK
- U+2C71 LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH RIGHT HOOK
- U+2C72 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH HOOK
- U+2C73 LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH HOOK
- U+1DF09 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- Fixed position of
- U+1D09 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED I
- U+1D4E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED I
- Fixed dotless form of
- U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- Fixed spacing of
- U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN
- Revised design of
- U+A720 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND HIGH TONE
- U+A721 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND LOW TONE
- Fixed position of
- U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T
- Increased size of Vietnamese hook above
- U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE
- Improved design of some combining diacritics
- U+032B COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW
- U+033C COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW
- U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE
- Revised anchors on many letters to improve diacritic positioning, including these and related letters
- U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
- U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
- U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
- U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F
- U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I
- U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
- U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE
- Reviewed anchors on spacing acutes and graves
- U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT
- U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT
- U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT
- U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT
- U+02CE MODIFIER LETTER LOW GRAVE ACCENT
- U+02CF MODIFIER LETTER LOW ACUTE ACCENT
- Autohinting is more consistent across the font family
### 1 Feb 2023 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.200
This release is focused on adding features and glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode 14 and 15. It does not include significant changes to line spacing, glyph widths, or kerning that might cause document reflow or layout changes - except for minor improvements to the size and weight of superscript, subscript, and modifier letters.
#### New features, including *TypeTuner Web* support
- Feature to display alternate design of clicks that sit on baseline
- Baseline clicks (cv69)
- Standard 'subs' and 'sups' features for numerals. These are not supported by *TypeTuner Web*.
- Subscript numerals (subs)
- Superscript numerals (sups)
- Feature to automatically construct fractions when using U+002F SOLIDUS or U+2044 FRACTION SLASH. This is not supported by *TypeTuner Web*.
- Automatic fractions (frac)
#### New character support
- Additional click (also supported by new baseline clicks feature)
- U+2980 TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR DELIMITER
- Letters used for legacy Malayalam transliteration
- U+1DF25 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF26 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF27 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF28 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF29 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF2A LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- Letters used for Egyptological transliteration
- U+A7BA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL A
- U+A7BB LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL A
- U+A7BC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL I
- U+A7BD LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL I
- U+A7BE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL U
- U+A7BF LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL U
- Combining marks
- U+1ABF COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER W BELOW
- U+1AC0 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W BELOW
- U+1AC6 COMBINING NUMBER SIGN ABOVE
- U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE
- U+1AC8 COMBINING PLUS SIGN ABOVE
- U+1AC9 COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN ABOVE
- U+1ACA COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN BELOW
- U+1ACB COMBINING TRIPLE ACUTE ACCENT
- U+1ACC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G
- U+1ACD COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR R
- U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T
- U+1DDA COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER G
- U+1DDC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER K
- U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW
- Combining marks that are not recommended for normal use and may not combine well with letters. Precomposed characters that include the hook should be used instead except in rare cases.
- U+0321 COMBINING PALATALIZED HOOK BELOW
- U+0322 COMBINING RETROFLEX HOOK BELOW
- Modifier letters and symbols
- U+A7F2 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL C
- U+A7F3 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL F
- U+A7F4 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL Q
- U+AB69 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED W
- U+AB6A MODIFIER LETTER LEFT TACK
- U+AB6B MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT TACK
- U+10780 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL AA
- U+10781 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT TRIANGULAR COLON
- U+10782 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT HALF TRIANGULAR COLON
- U+10784 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL B
- U+10785 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL B WITH HOOK
- U+10787 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH
- U+10788 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+10789 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH CURL
- U+1078A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DEZH DIGRAPH
- U+1078B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH TAIL
- U+1078C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK
- U+1078D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK AND TAIL
- U+10790 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL FENG DIGRAPH
- U+10792 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G
- U+10793 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL G WITH HOOK
- U+10794 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK
- U+10796 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL H
- U+10797 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG WITH HOOK
- U+10798 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK
- U+10799 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LS DIGRAPH
- U+1079A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LZ DIGRAPH
- U+1079B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH BELT
- U+1079C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT
- U+1079D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT
- U+1079E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH
- U+1079F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107A1 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y WITH BELT
- U+107A4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED OMEGA
- U+107A5 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Q
- U+107A6 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG
- U+107A7 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107A8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH TAIL
- U+107A9 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH FISHHOOK
- U+107AA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL R
- U+107AB MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL
- U+107AC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH
- U+107AD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107AE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TESH DIGRAPH
- U+107AF MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107B0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL V WITH RIGHT HOOK
- U+107B3 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE
- U+107B4 MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE
- U+107B5 MODIFIER LETTER BILABIAL CLICK
- U+107B6 MODIFIER LETTER DENTAL CLICK
- U+107B7 MODIFIER LETTER LATERAL CLICK
- U+107B8 MODIFIER LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK
- U+107B9 MODIFIER LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107BA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL S WITH CURL
- Cyrillic modifier letters, subscripts, and combining marks
- U+1E030 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL A
- U+1E031 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BE
- U+1E032 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL VE
- U+1E033 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL GHE
- U+1E034 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL DE
- U+1E035 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL IE
- U+1E036 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZHE
- U+1E037 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZE
- U+1E038 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL I
- U+1E039 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL KA
- U+1E03A MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EL
- U+1E03B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EM
- U+1E03C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL O
- U+1E03D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PE
- U+1E03E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ER
- U+1E03F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES
- U+1E040 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TE
- U+1E041 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL U
- U+1E042 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EF
- U+1E043 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL HA
- U+1E044 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TSE
- U+1E045 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL CHE
- U+1E046 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SHA
- U+1E047 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YERU
- U+1E048 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL E
- U+1E049 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YU
- U+1E04B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SCHWA
- U+1E04C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- U+1E04D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL JE
- U+1E04E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BARRED O
- U+1E04F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U
- U+1E050 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PALOCHKA
- U+1E051 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER A
- U+1E052 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BE
- U+1E053 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER VE
- U+1E054 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE
- U+1E055 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DE
- U+1E056 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER IE
- U+1E057 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZHE
- U+1E058 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZE
- U+1E059 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER I
- U+1E05A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER KA
- U+1E05B CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EL
- U+1E05C CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER O
- U+1E05D CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER PE
- U+1E05E CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ES
- U+1E05F CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER U
- U+1E060 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EF
- U+1E061 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HA
- U+1E062 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER TSE
- U+1E063 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHE
- U+1E064 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER SHA
- U+1E065 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
- U+1E066 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER YERU
- U+1E067 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN
- U+1E068 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- U+1E069 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZE
- U+1E06A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZHE
- U+1E06B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES WITH DESCENDER
- U+1E06D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U WITH STROKE
- U+1E08F COMBINING CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- Miscellaneous letters
- U+A7C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7C8 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7C9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7CA LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+AB66 LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+AB67 LATIN SMALL LETTER TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+AB68 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH MIDDLE TILDE
- Symbols
- U+2031 PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN
- U+203D INTERROBANG
- U+203E OVERLINE
- U+2042 ASTERISM
- U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET
- U+20C0 SOM SIGN
- U+218A TURNED DIGIT TWO
- U+218B TURNED DIGIT THREE
- U+21B6 ANTICLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW
- U+21B7 CLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW
- U+21BA ANTICLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- U+21BB CLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- U+2215 DIVISION SLASH
- U+2221 MEASURED ANGLE
- U+2227 LOGICAL AND
- U+2228 LOGICAL OR
- U+226E NOT LESS-THAN
- U+226F NOT GREATER-THAN
- U+2318 PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN
- U+25C9 FISHEYE
- U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE
- U+2610 BALLOT BOX
- U+2611 BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK
- U+2612 BALLOT BOX WITH X
- U+2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE
- U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE
- U+2713 CHECK MARK
- U+2717 BALLOT X
- U+27C2 PERPENDICULAR
- U+2AFD DOUBLE SOLIDUS OPERATOR
- U+2E3E WIGGLY VERTICAL LINE
- U+1F12F COPYLEFT SYMBOL
- U+1F610 NEUTRAL FACE
#### Improvements and fixes
- Kayan diacritics feature (cv79) now supported by TypeTuner Web
- Combining letters, modifier letters, superscripts, and subscripts have been made more consistent in size and weight
- Encoding fixed for U+1078E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED E
- Size increased for:
- U+02BE MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING
- U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING
- U+02D2 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED RIGHT HALF RING
- U+02D3 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED LEFT HALF RING
- U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR is now included in single-story/double-story features
- The combination of U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK forms a ligature
- Small cap form corrected for U+A78D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED H / U+0265 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H
- U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK repositioned to middle leg of U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M
- Diacritic positioning improved for U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- Diacritic positioning improved for U+2183 ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED
- Position of dot changed for U+1E23 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DOT ABOVE
#### Notes
- The next major version (7) will address some complex pending issues and features and may include substantial changes to line spacing, glyph metrics, kerning, and even font family structure. If you have any requests for future versions please contact us as soon as possible.
### 9 Feb 2022 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.101
This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6 fonts available on *TypeTuner Web*.
#### New
- The fonts now support SIL *TypeTuner*. Customized fonts can be created at *TypeTuner Web* (https://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi)
- New `locl` OpenType feature that supports Macedonian (MKD/mk) Cyrillic alternates
- Serbian and Macedonian alternates are also available through a new OpenType feature (cv84) for applications that do not support language-specific `locl` features
- Characters have been added to support Unicode versions up to 14.0.0 (more to be added in future releases):
- U+A7C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+A7C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH HOOK
- U+1DF00 LATIN SMALL LETTER FENG DIGRAPH WITH TRILL
- U+1DF01 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED SCRIPT G
- U+1DF02 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED G
- U+1DF03 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED K
- U+1DF05 LATIN SMALL LETTER LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF07 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED ENG
- U+1DF09 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF0A LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF0B LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR
- U+1DF0C LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR AND CURL
- U+1DF0D LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T WITH CURL
- U+1DF0E LATIN LETTER INVERTED GLOTTAL STOP WITH CURL
- U+1DF0F LATIN LETTER STRETCHED C WITH CURL
- U+1DF10 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED K
- U+1DF11 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH FISHHOOK
- U+1DF12 LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF13 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH BELT AND PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF14 LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF15 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF16 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK AND PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF17 LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF19 LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1B LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1C LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1D LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1E LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CURL
#### Improved
- The special-purpose modified fonts have been updated to be based on the current version. These are available at https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/ and include *Literacy* and *Compact* versions.
- U+02DE MODIFIER LETTER RHOTIC HOOK position improved with modifier vowels:
- U+02B8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y
- U+1D53 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL OPEN O
- U+1D5A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED M
- U+1DBA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED V
- Design improved for these characters:
- U+0184 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TONE SIX
- U+0185 LATIN SMALL LETTER TONE SIX
- The small caps feature (smcp) now supports more characters
- The spacing of Serbian italic alternates has been improved
#### Changed encoding
- The following characters were in the SIL PUA but have now been given Unicode assignments. The SIL PUA characters are now deprecated:
- U+A7C6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH PALATAL HOOK (was U+F234)
- U+10783 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL AE (was U+F1A1)
- U+1078F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E (was U+F1A4)
- U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN (was U+F1B5)
- U+10795 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH STROKE (was U+F1BC)
- U+107A0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y (was U+F1CE)
- U+107A2 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL O WITH STROKE (was U+F1AB)
- U+107A3 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OE (was U+F1AE)
- U+107B2 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Y (was U+F1B4)
- U+1088E NABATAEAN LETTER FINAL KAPH (was U+F1A3)
- U+1DF04 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT (was U+F268)
- U+1DF06 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y WITH BELT (was U+F267)
- U+1DF08 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND RETROFLEX HOOK (was U+F269)
- U+1DF18 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH PALATAL HOOK (was U+F235)
### 2 July 2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.001
- Reverted font Postscript name to that used in v5 and earlier to avoid problems with unrecognized fonts when opening older documents.
### 29 Jun 2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.000
***Note that this is a major upgrade that may cause document reflow as some glyphs widths have changed and some features have been removed.***
#### Removed
- **Removed DSIGs added in version 5.000.** These have now been removed to reflect current best practice font development guidance. Adobe InDesign will complain that fonts cannot be found if a document last saved with version 5.000 is opened with version 5.960 or later installed. It will be necessary to find/replace the fonts in the document using the command in the Type menu. Please also look over the document carefully to note any places where changes in the fonts have affected letterforms or spacing.
- **Graphite has been removed.** Application and OS support for OpenType has greatly improved, so the need for Graphite in this font family is greatly reduced. *If this affects you, and you find that OpenType does not provide sufficient support for your needs, please contact us right away.*
- Removed the *Show Invisibles* feature.
- Removed support for nine-level pitch contours. These will be replaced by a standalone pitch contours font in the future.
#### Added
Characters added to support Unicode versions 7.0-13.0, including feature support (e.g. small caps) where appropriate:
- U+03D1 GREEK THETA SYMBOL
- U+03F4 GREEK CAPITAL THETA SYMBOL
- U+1AB0 COMBINING DOUBLED CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
- U+1AB1 COMBINING DIAERESIS-RING
- U+1AB2 COMBINING INFINITY
- U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW
- U+1AB4 COMBINING TRIPLE DOT
- U+1AB5 COMBINING X-X BELOW
- U+1AB6 COMBINING WIGGLY LINE BELOW
- U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB9 COMBINING LIGHT CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW
- U+1ABA COMBINING STRONG CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW
- U+1DF5 COMBINING UP TACK ABOVE
- U+203B REFERENCE MARK
- U+20BE LARI SIGN
- U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN
- U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
- U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET
- U+2E13 DOTTED OBELOS
- U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
- U+2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
- U+2E22 TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E23 TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E24 BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E25 BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET
- U+A78F LATIN LETTER SINOLOGICAL DOT
- U+A7AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I
- U+A7AF LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q
- U+A7B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CHI
- U+A7B4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER BETA
- U+A7B5 LATIN SMALL LETTER BETA
- U+A7B6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA
- U+A7B7 LATIN SMALL LETTER OMEGA
- U+A7B8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH STROKE
- U+A7B9 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH STROKE
- U+AB30 LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED ALPHA
- U+AB53 LATIN SMALL LETTER CHI
- U+AB5C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG
- U+AB5E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE
- U+F26E CAPITAL RAMS HORN (in SIL PUA)
#### New
- First release that uses a UFO-based design and production workflow
- All sources are in open formats
- Build toolkit and workflow is completely open-source
- See https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Introduction.html
- Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats
- Applied new hinting techniques to try to improve screen rendering on Windows
- All-new documentation in HTML and PDF formats
- Features for controlling literacy forms of a and g separately
- Literacy a alternates (ss02)
- Literacy g alternates (ss03)
- Feature to support side-by-side rendering of U+0300 plus U+0301
- Kayan diacritics (cv79)
- Tone letter features (cv91 & cv92) now supported through OpenType
#### Fixes
- Width of typographic spaces have been made more consistent to reflect common publishing industry usage. Note that this may affect line and page lengths. Affected spaces:
- U+2000 EN QUAD (made width consistent)
- U+2001 EM QUAD (made width consistent)
- U+2007 FIGURE SPACE (made wider to match numerals in all styles)
- U+2009 THIN SPACE (made narrower)
- U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (made narrower)
- Fixed some small capital correspondences, including added support for clicks
- Fixed problems with spacing of tone letters
- Fixed missing or distorted Vietnamese composite glyphs
- Fixed miscellaneous distorted glyphs
- Improved miscellaneous anchor positions, including the position of diacritics below glyphs with macrons below (e.g. U+1E0F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH LINE BELOW)
- Improved position of diacritics for superscripts and modifier letters (including cedilla, ogonek, rhotic hook)
- Fixes and improvements to various glyphs:
- U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN (spacing)
- U+01E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH STROKE (bar position on single-story variant)
- U+02D6 MODIFIER LETTER PLUS SIGN (size)
- U+02DF MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT (size)
- U+02E4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP (form)
- U+033B COMBINING SQUARE BELOW (more rectangular)
- U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW (position fixes since beta 1)
- U+1D02 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED AE (made double-story in italic)
- U+1D15 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OU (form)
- U+1D46 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED AE (made double-story in italic)
- U+1D77 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED G (position)
- U+1D78 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN (form)
- U+1EFC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MIDDLE-WELSH V
- U+A76A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ET
- U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET
- U+A76C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IS
- U+A76D LATIN SMALL LETTER IS
- U+A77F LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G (position)
- U+A7F8 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL H WITH STROKE (form)
- U+A7FA LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED M (italic)
#### Known issues
- There is no support for TypeTuner or TypeTuner Web. We hope to add that support soon.
- There are no regional subsets. Please contact us if these are a priority for you and describe how you use them. We are reassessing whether to provide these subsets. With current web technology and WOFF2 compression most uses can be met equally well with the full fonts.
### 27 Oct 2014 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 5.000
- Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support
of previously Graphite-only features
- Added Character Variants to the font for OpenType support
of previously Graphite-only features
- Added Serbian feature when Serbian language is turned on
- Added hook D variant feature (for U+018A/U+0257)
- Removed "Show deprecated PUA" feature
- Removed "Romanian-style diacritics" feature
(because glyphs are now encoded)
- Removed "Diacritic selection" feature
- Added U+039E, U+03BC, U+03C6 and U+03C9 in the Greek and Coptic block
- Added U+0528..U+052F in the Cyrillic Supplement block
- Added U+2041 in the General Punctuation block
- Added U+2095..U+209C in the Superscripts and Subscripts block
- Added U+20B6..U+20BD in the Currency Symbols block
- Added U+210C, U+2113, U+2117, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F in the
Letterlike Symbols block
- Added U+2150..U+2152 and U+2189 in the Number Forms block
- Added U+2226, U+2234..U+2235, U+2262, U+2282..U+2287 in the
Mathematical Operators block
- Added U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F in the Miscellaneous Symbols block
- Added U+27E8..U+27E9 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block
- Added U+2C7E..U+2C7F in the Latin Extended-C block
- Added U+2C88 in the Coptic block
- Added U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E3A..U+2E3B in the Supplemental
Punctuation block
- Added U+A736..U+A73F, U+A742..U+A74D, U+A750..U+A787, U+A790..U+A7AD,
U+A7B0..U+A7B1, U+A7F7..U+A7FA in the Latin Extended-D block.
These were also added to relevant features.
- Added U+A92E in the Kayah Li block (to support the Kayah Li language
when using the Roman script)
- Added U+AB64..U+AB65 in the Latin Extended-E block
- Added U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D50F, U+1D514,
U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block
- Added PUA characters U+F26C (curl J) and U+F26D (left-hook b)
- Characters in our PUA that were added to Unicode have had their
codepoints updated:
F1AD>A7F9, F266>A78E, F26B>A78D, F32C>0526, F32D>0527, F17B>1DFD, F209>2C70
- These PUA characters were deprecated (now white on black glyphs):
U+F17B, U+F1AD, U+F209, U+F247, U+F248, U+F266, U+F26B, U+F32C, U+F32D
- Deleted U+0149 as it is officially deprecated in Unicode
- Added support for shorter macrons under narrow letters (i,l,r,t).
(This only works for Graphite or using precomposed characters in OpenType.)
- Made it possible for saltillo characters (U+A78B and U+A78C) to "carry"
diacritics
- Improved design of U+A722..U+A725 and U+A78D
- Refactored all cedilla positioning
- Removal of unneeded duplicate glyphs (because of improvements in smart
font code)
- Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Vietnamese
alternates and Small Caps
- Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Ogonek
alternates and Small Caps
- Improved hinting
- Significant size, position and metric changes made to Subscript and Superscript
parentheses, plus, minus, equals.
- Size of guillomets (U+00AB U+00BB U+2039 U+203A) modified to match the font.
Metrics were not changed.
- Arrowhead design of U+21A8 modified to match the other arrows
- Placement of Ogonek revisited
- Slight modification to positioning of U+0361 and U+035C in Italic and Bold Italic
- Changed the strongly curved hooks on Cyrillic U+04C3..U+04C4, U+04C7..U+04C8,
U+04FC..U+04FD, U+0512..U+0513 to be more consistent with other hooks
- Modified Cyrillic italic versions of U+04AF, U+04B1, U+04B5, U+04BC, U+04BE, U+04D8
- Modified design of U+A78D to be more curved and less squared
- Changed postscript names for U+0218 and U+0219
- Changed postscript names for U+2203, U+232A and U+2329
- "Hide tone contour staves" feature now works with single tonebar
- U+1DBF now follows weight and italic changes
- Allowed combining marks to render properly with U+02D0
- Removed AAT support
### 10 Jun 2013 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.114
- optimized Graphite code for faster processing of plain ASCII text
### 1 Aug 2012 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.112
- Changed Graphite feature identifiers from integers to 4-character
alphanumeric tags (no other changes)
### 12 Sep 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.110
- Removed the VDMX table
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
### 25 Aug 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.108
- Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.2 and 6.0
(using ttfremap)
- Encoded 1D29 (using ttfremap)
- Corrected problem with coverage tables (using ttfsortcover)
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
- Added device metric tables
- Added an empty dsig table
### 05 May 2009 (Alan Ward) Charis SIL version 4.106
- TypeTuner (Silt) table changed so that line metrics from legacy fonts
can be imported
### 20 Mar 2009 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.106
- Added support for Unicode 5.1 Latin and Cyrillic additions
- Other characters added: 0462, 0463, 0474, 0475, 0524, 0525, 20E5, 2203, 2204,
231C..U+231F, 2329, 232A, 239B..23AD, A722..U+A725
- Added PUA characters F26B, F32C, F32D
- Design changes: 002F, 00A1, 00BF, 02D0, 02ED, 02FF, 034B, 04A8, 04A9, 04BC,
04BD, 04BE, 04BF, 04E0, 04E1, 045F, 04AA, 04AB, F208, F209, 0358
- Fixed attachment points on 1D68, 1D69, 1D6A, 04FA, 04FB, fi and fl ligatures
- Fixed collision issues for Vietnamese glyphs 'with horn'
- Fixed advance of t-caron
- Feature modifications:
* new alternates added to feature ID 1033 and renamed from Small v-hook
alternate
to V-hook alternates
* new alternate U+2C65 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE added to
Literacy alternates feature
* default for Diacritic selection was changed from "on" to "off"
(by request of FieldWorks team)
- Added new features:
* Small Caps
* Non-European caron alternates
* Capital B-hook alternate
* Show deprecated PUA
- Slant italic bug fixed (dot on i was not disappearing with combining marks)
- Removal of about 700 unused glyphs (including precomposed chao tone letters
which were no longer needed since these are now dynamically created)
- 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
### 9 May 2008 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.104
- Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.1
(using ttfremap)
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
### 16 Aug 2007 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.102
- Modified the OpenType features so that InDesign's built-in small caps work
### 31 Jan 2007 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.100
- Added PUA character F26A
- Added 2308, 2309
- Removed Cyrillic italic alternates feature and added those 3 characters to the
slant italic specials feature
- Fixed bug in nine-level tones (in PUA) feature
- Made Chinantec tones larger, added 02C9 to this feature
- Fixed bug in GSUB table to work in Pango
### 15 Dec 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.0.04 beta 1 (Version 4.004)
- Beta release (should not be distributed!)
- Added support for Unicode 5 Latin and Cyrillic additions
- Other new chars: 2053, 211F, 2123, 2423, FE20..FE23
- Numerous new PUA characters
- Deprecated some existing PUA chars now added to Unicode
- New features:
- Open O alternate
- Chinantec tones
- Pitch contour tramlines
- Cyrillic italic alternates
- Tone bars no longer limited to 3 sequences (OpenType)
- Added glyphs for nine-level tones (in PUA)
- Design changes to some Greek, Cyrillic, ogonek and modifier glyphs,
particularly in italic faces
### 31 Jan 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.0.02 (Version 4.002)
- First version released under the SIL Open Font License

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---
title: Charis - Documentation
fontversion: 7.000
---
Thank you for your interest in the Charis fonts. This font family supports the broad variety of writing systems that use Latin and Cyrillic scripts. The design is optimized for high readability at a wide range of sizes and resolutions, making it ideal for new readers moving on from simple sans serif forms.
This documentation is a set of HTML pages that can be viewed in any modern web browser. PDF versions of these pages are also provided. This content, plus download links and a contact form, are available from the [Charis site](https://software.sil.org/charis/).
- [About](about.md) — Information about this project and SIL Global
- [Version 7 changes](v7changes.md) — Summary of significant changes in version 7
- [Resources](resources.md) — Help with installation and use
- [FAQ](faq.md) — Common questions and answers
- [Design](design.md) — History and background of the design
- [Character set support](charset.md) — Details of Unicode characters that are supported
- [Font features](features.md) — Using smart font features
- [Support](support.md) — How to get additional support
- [Developer information](developer.md) — How to modify and build the fonts
- [Versions](versions.md) - Sources for alternate versions
- [Version history](history.md) - Complete version history
Additional information is also provided in other project files: [README.txt](../README.txt), [OFL.txt](../OFL.txt), [OFL-FAQ.txt](../OFL-FAQ.txt), and [FONTLOG.txt](../FONTLOG.txt).

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#!/usr/bin/env python
'''Process font documentation .md files for use on product sites '''
__url__ = 'https://github.com/silnrsi/fontdocs'
__copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) 2021-2025 SIL Global (https://www.sil.org)'
__license__ = 'Released under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)'
__author__ = 'Victor Gaultney'
import re
from silfont.core import execute
argspec = [
('infile', {'help': 'Input .md filename'}, {'type': 'infile'}),
('outfile',{'help': 'Output .md filename'}, {'type': 'outfile'})
]
def doit(args):
infile = args.infile
outfile = args.outfile
firstline = True
inheader = False
inpsonly = False
infontsc = False
classes = []
temptext = ""
# remove YAML header and uncomment the [font] shortcode
for line in infile:
if firstline:
firstline = False
inheader = True
continue
if inheader:
if line.startswith("---"):
inheader = False
continue
if line.startswith("<!-- PRODUCT SITE ONLY"):
inpsonly = True
continue
if inpsonly:
if line.startswith("-->"):
inpsonly = False
continue
if line.startswith("[font") and infontsc == False:
infontsc = True
fontscre = re.compile(r"\[font id='(\w+)'(.+)\]")
fontsc = fontscre.match(line)
fontscid = fontsc.group(1)
fontscend = fontsc.group(2)
temptext = temptext + line
# reconfigure image markup
mdimage = re.compile(r"!\[(.*?)\]\((\S+\.\w+)\)\{\.(\S+)\}\n?<!--\sPRODUCT\sSITE\sIMAGE\sSRC\s(\S+)\s-->")
temptext = mdimage.sub(r"<img class='\3' alt='\1' src='\4' />", temptext)
mdimagecap = re.compile(r"<figcaption>(.*?)<\/figcaption>")
temptext = mdimagecap.sub(r"[caption]<em>\1</em>[/caption]", temptext)
# replace local links with site references
mdlink = re.compile(r"\((?!https://)(?P<path>[^()]*).md\)")
temptext = mdlink.sub(r"(\g<path>)",temptext)
# replace links to external markdown files
temptext = temptext.replace(".rawmd",".md")
# replace escaped @ in link texts
temptext = temptext.replace(r"[\@",r"[@")
# make a list of new classes needed for font shortcode
# separate searches for spans with 1, 2, or 3 settings
fontclass1 = re.compile(r"style='font-feature-settings:\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+)'")
fontclass2 = re.compile(r"style='font-feature-settings:\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+),\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+)'")
fontclass3 = re.compile(r"style='font-feature-settings:\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+),\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+),\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+)'")
for match in fontclass1.finditer(temptext):
classes.append(("-" + match.group(1) + "-" + match.group(2), match.group(1) + " " + match.group(2)))
for match in fontclass2.finditer(temptext):
classes.append(("-" + match.group(1) + "-" + match.group(2) + "-" + match.group(3) + "-" + match.group(4), match.group(1) + " " + match.group(2) + ", " + match.group(3) + " " + match.group(4)))
for match in fontclass3.finditer(temptext):
classes.append(("-" + match.group(1) + "-" + match.group(2) + "-" + match.group(3) + "-" + match.group(4) + "-" + match.group(5) + "-" + match.group(6), match.group(1) + " " + match.group(2) + ", " + match.group(3) + " " + match.group(4) + ", " + match.group(5) + " " + match.group(6)))
# transform explicit font feature settings into classes
# separate searches for spans with 1, 2, or 3 settings
fontspan1 = re.compile(r"class='(\w+)+-(\w+)+\snormal'\sstyle='font-feature-settings:\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+)'>")
fontspan2 = re.compile(r"class='(\w+)+-(\w+)+\snormal'\sstyle='font-feature-settings:\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+),\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+)'>")
fontspan3 = re.compile(r"class='(\w+)+-(\w+)+\snormal'\sstyle='font-feature-settings:\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+),\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+),\s\"(\w+\d*)\"\s(\d+)'>")
temptext = fontspan1.sub(r"class='\1-\3-\4-\2 normal'>", temptext)
temptext = fontspan2.sub(r"class='\1-\3-\4-\5-\6-\2 normal'>", temptext)
temptext = fontspan3.sub(r"class='\1-\3-\4-\5-\6-\7-\8-\2 normal'>", temptext)
# add new font sortcodes for added classes
for c in classes:
temptext = temptext + "[font id='" + fontscid + c[0] + "'" + fontscend + " feats='" + c[1] + "']\n"
outfile.write(temptext)
return
def cmd() : execute(None,doit, argspec)
if __name__ == "__main__": cmd()

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function Link(el)
if string.find(el.target, "^https?://") == nil then
el.target = string.gsub(el.target, "%.md", ".html")
end
el.target = string.gsub(el.target, "%.rawmd", ".md")
return el
end
function Image(el)
el.src = string.gsub(el.src, "../assets", "assets")
return el
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function Link(el)
if string.find(el.target, "^https?://") == nil then
-- While full external links work fine, WeasyPrint doesn't
-- seem capable of creating relative links within PDF files,
-- and thus the resulting PDF files won't work if they are
-- downloaded to a different folder. Until WeasyPrint is fixed,
-- we remove the target from relative links, making them
-- nonfunctioning (even though they remain formatted as a link):
el.target = ""
end
return el
end
function Image(el)
el.src = string.gsub(el.src, "../assets", "../../assets")
return el
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## About this project
This project is intended to provide a free and open font family for all current languages and writing systems that use Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It supports almost the complete range of Unicode characters for these scripts, including a comprehensive range of diacritics and a large set of symbols useful for linguistics and literacy work. Smart font routines automatically adjust the position of diacritics to support and optimize arbitrary base+diacritic combinations.
For more information on the visual characteristics of the font family see [Design](design).
For a comparison between this and other SIL fonts, see [Comparison of Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic fonts](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/support/comparison/).
## Future plans
These fonts are actively maintained and improved, and recent changes to their development process will enable more frequent releases.
The highest priorities for future additions and enhancements are mainly driven by:
- New additions to [The Unicode Standard](https://unicode.org/)
- Requests from language communities using the fonts
- Needs of the linguistic and academic community
Although some expert typographic features are supported (e.g. small caps), those are a lesser priority.
Please send us your requests using the [form on the font website](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/). If you are interested in helping us make the fonts better, see the [Developer](developer) page.
## Announcement list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our [SIL Font News Announcement List](https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sil.org/forum/#!forum/sil-font-news). This is an announcement-only list with messages approximately once a month. It does not allow any discussion.
You can subscribe using either of the two following options.
- If you use a Google profile and join the group, you will be able to access the group and control your subscription and notification options with a web browser. Make sure you are logged in to your Google profile and go to the [SIL Font News Google Group](https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sil.org/forum/#!forum/sil-font-news). Click on **Join group**.
- If you would rather not use a Google profile, you can subscribe any email address by sending a message to [sil-font-news+subscribe@groups.sil.org](mailto:sil-font-news+subscribe@groups.sil.org) and following the instructions you get in the confirmation message.
Our font announcements are also available through X (formerly Twitter) [@silfonts](https://x.com/silfonts).
## Supporting the project
These fonts are provided at no cost; however, they are expensive to produce and maintain. Please consider donating to SILs font development efforts to support future development. Go to [SILs Give Direct page](https://give.sil.org/give/485238). **Thank you!**
## About SIL Global
[SIL Global](https://www.sil.org/) is a global, faith-based nonprofit that works with local communities around the world to develop language solutions that expand possibilities for a better life.
We are involved in approximately 1,350 active language projects in 104 countries. These projects impact more than 1.1 billion people within 1,600 local communities. SILs work brings together more than 4,300 staff from 89 countries who work alongside thousands more local partners and community volunteers worldwide. Our services are available without regard to religious belief, political ideology, gender, race or ethnic background.
Our Vision: We long to see people flourishing in community using the languages they value most.
Our Mission: Inspired by Gods love, we advocate, build capacity, and work with local communities to apply language expertise that advances meaningful development, education, and engagement with Scripture.
[SIL Language Technology](https://software.sil.org/) supports these activities by developing [software](https://software.sil.org/products/), [fonts](https://software.sil.org/fonts/), and [keyboard technologies](https://keyman.com/).

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This font supports over 2,400 characters from [The Unicode Standard](https://unicode.org/) as well as a number of [Private Use Area (PUA)](https://github.com/silnrsi/unicode-resources/tree/main/sil-pua) characters. In total, over 3,800 glyphs are included, supporting stylistic alternates for a number of characters as well as a large number of ligated sequences (e.g., contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).
## Supported characters
The following character ranges are supported by this font:
Unicode block | Charis support
------------- | ---------------
C0 Controls and Basic Latin*|U+0020..U+007E
C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement*|U+00A0..U+00FF
Latin Extended-A|U+0100..U+0148, U+014A..U+017F
Latin Extended-B*|U+0180..U+024F
IPA Extensions*|U+0250..U+02AF
Spacing Modifier Letters*|U+02B0..U+02FF
Combining Diacritical Marks|U+0300..U+033F, U+0346..U+036F
Greek and Coptic|U+0387, U+0393..U+0394, U+0398, U+039E, U+03A0, U+03A8..U+03A9, U+03B1..U+03B4, U+03B8, U+03BB..U+03BC, U+03C0..U+03C1, U+03C3, U+03C6..U+03C7, U+03C9, U+03D1, U+03F4
Cyrillic|U+0400..U+045F, U+0462..U+0463, U+0472..U+0475, U+048A..U+04FF
Cyrillic Supplement*|U+0500..U+052F
Combining Diacritical Marks Extended|U+1AB0..U+1ABA. U+1ABF..U+1AC0, U+1AC6..U+1ACE
Cyrillic Extended-C|U+1C89..U+1C8A
Phonetic Extensions*|U+1D00..U+1D7F
Phonetic Extensions Supplement*|U+1D80..U+1DBF
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement|U+1DC2, U+1DC4..U+1DCD, U+1DDA, U+1DDC, U+1DF5, U+1DFC..U+1DFF
Latin Extended Additional*|U+1E00..U+1EFF
General Punctuation|U+2000..U+2042, U+2044, U+204A, U+2053, U+2057, U+2060..U+2063, U+206A..U+206F
Superscripts and Subscripts*|U+2070..U+2071, U+2074..U+208E, U+2090..U+209C
Currency Symbols*|U+20A0..U+20C0
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols|U+20E5, U+20EC..U+20EF
Letterlike Symbols|U+210C, U+2113, U+2116..U+2117, U+211F, U+2122..U+2123, U+2126, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F
Number Forms*|U+2150..U+218B
Arrows|U+2190..U+219B, U+21A8, U+21AE, U+21B6..U+21B7, U+21BA..U+21BB, U+21D0..U+21D5
Mathematical Operators|U+2202..U+2206, U+220F, U+2211..U+2213, U+2215, U+2219..U+221A, U+221E, U+2221, U+2225..U+2228, U+222B, U+2234..U+2235, U+223C, U+2248, U+225F, U+2260..U+2262, U+2264..U+2265, U+226E..U+226F, U+U+2282..U+2287, U+22BB..U+22BD
Miscellaneous Technical|U+2308..U+230B, U+2318, U+231C..U+231F, U+2329..U+232A, U+239B..U+23AD, U+23D1..U+23D6
Control Pictures|U+2423
Enclosed Alphanumerics|U+24B6, U+24D0
Geometric Shapes|U+25C9, U+25CA..U+25CC
Miscellaneous Symbols|U+2610..U+2612, U+2639..U+263A, U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F
Dingbats|U+2713, U+2717, U+274D
Misc. Math. Symbols-A|U+27C2, U+27E6..U+27EB
Misc. Math. Symbols-B|U+2980
Supplemental Math. Operators|U+2AFD
Latin Extended-C*|U+2C60..U+2C7F
Coptic|U+2C88..U+2C89
Supplemental Punctuation|U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E13..U+2E15, U+2E17, U+2E22..U+2E25, U+2E28..U+2E29, U+2E3A..U+2E3B, U+2E3D..U+2E3E
Cyrillic Extended-B|U+A69C..U+A69D
Modifier Tone Letters*|U+A700..U+A71F
Latin Extended-D|U+A720..U+A799, U+A7A0..U+A7AF, U+A7B0..U+A7BF, U+A7C4..U+A7CD, U+A7DA..U+A7DC, U+A7F2..U+A7F4, U+A7F7..U+A7FF
Kayah Li|U+A92E
Latin Extended-E|U+AB30, U+AB53, U+AB5C, U+AB5E, U+AB64..U+AB6B
PUA: Specials|U+F130..U+F133
PUA: Modifier letters (e.g. superscripts)|U+F1A1, U+F1A3..U+F1A4, U+F1AB, U+F1AE, U+F1B4..U+F1B5, U+F1BC, U+F1CD..U+F1CE, U+F1F1..U+F1F9
PUA: Latin|U+F20D, U+F234..U+F235, U+F258..U+F259, U+F267..U+F269, U+F26C..U+F26D
PUA: Cyrillic|U+F326..U+F327
Alphabetic Presentation Forms|U+FB00..U+FB04
Variation Selectors*|U+FE00..U+FE0F
Combining Half Marks|U+FE20..U+FE23
Arabic Presentation Forms-B|U+FEFF (zero-width no-break space)
Specials*|U+FFF9..U+FFFD
Latin Extended-F*|U+10780..U+10785, U+10787..U+107B0, U+107B2..U+107BA
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols|U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D510, U+1D513..U+1D514, U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519
Latin Extended-G*|U+1DF00..U+1DF1E, U+1DF25..U+1DF2A
Cyrillic Extended-D|U+1E030..U+1E049, U+1E04B..U+1E06B, U+1E06D, U+1E06F
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement|U+1F12F
Emoticons|U+1F610
*This block is fully supported as of Unicode 15.0.
## Private-use (PUA) characters
There are a number of private-use characters that are supported in this font. These conform to [SIL Globals corporate registry](https://github.com/silnrsi/unicode-resources/tree/main/sil-pua) for usage of the Unicode private-use areas. Characters which are not yet in Unicode are shown below.
### Specials
- U+F130 FONT BASELINE AND SIDE-BEARING MARKER LEFT
- U+F131 FONT BASELINE AND SIDE-BEARING MARKER RIGHT
- U+F132 FONT VERTICAL METRICS MARKER LEFT
- U+F133 FONT VERTICAL METRICS MARKER RIGHT
### Modifier Letters
- U+F1CD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL U BAR
### Latin
- U+F20D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH STROKE AND HOOK
- U+F258 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I OVER SMALL SCHWA
- U+F259 LATIN LETTER SMALL UPSILON OVER SMALL SCHWA
- U+F26D LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH LEFT HOOK
### Cyrillic
- U+F326 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER
- U+F327 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE AND DESCENDER
### Deprecated SIL Corporate PUA characters
Some characters formerly in the PUA have been added to Unicode, and so have been deprecated in our fonts. Those PUA characters are displayed as black boxes containing a white image of the deprecated glyph.

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Charis is optimized for readability in long printed documents. It is highly readable and holds up well in less-than-ideal reproduction environments due to its simple and robust design with strong serifs and clear features.
<img class='fullsize' alt='Charis Sample - Precomposed Latin Diacritics' src='https://software.sil.org/charis/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2015/12/CharisTypePage.png' />
[caption]<em>Charis Sample - Precomposed Latin Diacritics</em>[/caption]
For a complete list of characters included in Charis, see [Character Set Support](charset).
### Note regarding Charter
This Charis font is essentially the same design as the SIL Charis font first released by SIL in 1997. The design of the basic character set of Charis is similar (but not identical) to Bitstream Charter, designed by Matthew Carter. The following notice accompanied the Charter fonts:
> © Copyright 1989-1992, Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA.
>
> You are hereby granted permission under all Bitstream propriety rights to use, copy, modify, sublicense, sell, and redistribute the 4 Bitstream Charter® Type 1 outline fonts and the 4 Courier Type 1 outline fonts for any purpose and without restriction; provided, that this notice is left intact on all copies of such fonts and that Bitstream's trademark is acknowledged as shown below on all unmodified copies of the 4 Charter Type 1 fonts.
>
> BITSTREAM CHARTER is a registered trademark of Bitstream Inc.
SIL Global is the creator of the Charis fonts, and is the owner of all proprietary rights therein.
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## Welcome font developers!
We welcome other developers who wish to get involved in supporting and enhancing these fonts or who want to modify them.
## Permissions granted by the OFL
SILs fonts are licensed according to the terms of the [SIL Open Font License](https://openfontlicense.org). The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. For details see the OFL.txt and OFL-FAQ.txt files in the package.
## Building the fonts from source code
The full source code for our Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic fonts is available on Github:
- [Charis Github repository](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis)
- [Doulos SIL Github repository](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-doulos)
- [Gentium Github repository](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-gentium)
- [Andika Github repository](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-andika)
Font sources are in the [UFO3](https://unifiedfontobject.org/versions/ufo3/) format with font family structures defined using [designspace](https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/tree/master/Doc/source/designspaceLib). OpenType source code is stored in the [.fea](https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko/OpenTypeFeatureFileSpecification.html) format in the UFO (features.fea) but is maintained in a separate file using the more efficient and powerful [.feax](hhttps://github.com/silnrsi/feax/blob/main/docs/feaextensions) format.
The fonts are built using a completely free and open source workflow using industry-standard tools ([fonttools](https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools)), a package of custom python scripts ([pysilfont](https://github.com/silnrsi/pysilfont)), and a build and packaging system ([Smith](https://github.com/silnrsi/smith)). The whole toolchain is available as a Docker container.
Full instructions for setting up the tools and building SIL fonts are available on a dedicated web site: [SIL Font Development Notes](https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/).
## Contributing to the project
We warmly welcome contributions to the fonts, such as new glyphs, enhanced smart font code, or bug fixes. The [brief overview of contributing changes](https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Contributing_Changes.html) is a good place to begin. The next step is to contact us by responding to an existing issue or creating an issue in the Github repository and expressing your interest. We can then work together to plan and integrate your contributions.
Here are a few examples of contributions that would be welcomed (some more than others):
- Historic/Archaic Cyrillic
- Mathematical glyphs
- Additional scripts (Armenian, etc.), and any needed OpenType code
Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality for our fonts, we will review submissions carefully. Contributions will need to cover all the weights and styles of the family and in some cases all four font projects. Please dont be discouraged if we do not include a submission due to quality or incompleteness, or if we ask you to make specific revisions.
To enable us to accept contributions in a way that honors your contribution and respects your copyright while preserving long-term flexibility for open source licensing, you would also need to agree to the **SIL Global Contributor License Agreement for Font Software (v1.1)** prior to sending us your contribution. To read more about this requirement and find out how to submit the required form, please visit the [CLA information page](https://software.sil.org/fontcla).

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Many questions can be answered by consulting the following FAQ pages. Here are a few sample questions answered in each FAQ:
- [SIL fonts in general](https://software.sil.org/fonts/faq)
- *How can I type...?*
- *How can I use font features?*
- *Will you add support for character...?*
- *Will you add support for script...?*
- *WIll you help me...?*
- [SILs Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek fonts](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/faq).
- *How can I type IPA symbols?*
- *How do I use both a single-story and double-story 'a' in italic?*
- *Why dont my diacritics position properly?*
- *Why is the line spacing so much looser than other fonts?*
- *Ive updated my font to the latest version and some letters have become black boxes with white letters - why?*
- [The SIL Open Font License (OFL-FAQ)](https://openfontlicense.org/ofl-faq)
- *Can I use this font for...?*
- *Can I modify the font and then include it in...*
- *If I use the font on a web page do I have to include an acknowledgement?*
- The full OFL-FAQ.txt is also included in the font package.
Here are a few of the most frequently asked questions specifically regarding Charis:
#### *Why did you change the font family name to only Charis?*
The version 7 reduction of default line spacing and addition of kerning would have caused most documents that used Charis SIL to reflow. This would have caused significant pain for users who wanted to use the new version but also had large collections of existing documents that would reflow. Changing the name to only Charis allows both old and new font families to be installed at the same time and eases the transition to the new version.
#### *Why did you stop producing Compact versions?*
Improvements to both these fonts and industry font technology has reduced the need for *Compact* versions. The reduced default line spacing in v7 enables many users of *Compact* variants to switch to using the standard fonts, and allows documents to be shared without requiring special fonts. If tight or loose line spacing is needed the best solution is to use the standard fonts and explicitly set the line spacing in your application. If the application does not allow user-specified line spacing the [v6.2 Compact fonts remain available](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/). Please also contact the app developer to request that they give users better control over line spacing.
#### *Where are the Literacy versions?*
We have not prepared pre-tuned *Literacy* versions of the version 7 fonts. The standard fonts include the literacy forms, which can be turned on in many applications and on web pages using OpenType stylistic sets (`ss01`, `ss11`, `ss12`) — see [Using Font Features](https://software.sil.org/fonts/features) and [Using SIL Fonts on Web Pages](https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts). If your application does not allow you to control these features the [v6.2 Literacy fonts remain available](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/). Please also contact the app developer to request that they give users access to OpenType stylistic sets.
#### *Is there a guide to the many versions of Charis and its variants?*
Yes! See the [Versions](versions) page.
#### *Why does my application not show the Bold weight in font menus and dialogs?*
Some applications will list all the weights but leave out Bold. To access the Bold you need to choose Regular and turn on Bold using the applications UI controls such as a “B” button. See our [Font Help Guide on Axis-Based Font Families](https://software.sil.org/fonts/axis-based-fonts/) for more information.
#### *Why do I sometimes get a fake Bold?*
If you choose a weight other than Regular (such as Medium), and then use application controls to turn on Bold, some applications will make a “fake” Bold rather than use one of the real ones in the font (SemiBold, Bold). This is because only Regular has an associated Bold counterpart. This is a technical limitation with some apps and OSes. If you are using a weight other than Regular for text and want to make a word or phrase stand out, you will need to select the text and apply one of the heavier weights manually. See our [Font Help Guide on Axis-Based Font Families](https://software.sil.org/fonts/axis-based-fonts/) for more information.
#### *Why does the font have some Greek characters, but not all?*
Although Charis includes some Greek characters, it is not intended to provide general support for the Greek language. The Greek characters that are included are there to support various notational systems (linguistic, logical, mathematical). Other fonts, such as [Gentium](https://software.sil.org/gentium), provide complete Greek script support.
#### *Will you add full Greek script support?*
We have no plans to do that, however the [OFL licensing](https://openfontlicense.org_web) allows anyone to add Greek support and freely distribute the font to others. It is even possible to [contribute that work back to the project](developer) and share it with others.
#### *Isnt Charis just a copy of Charter?*
Charis is very closely based on the design of Bitstream Charter. However the glyphs were completely redrawn based only on visual reference to Charter. There are some significant design differences in the serif structure, proportions, diacritics, and Cyrillic. The design was also adjusted and extended to cover a much wider range of characters and publishing needs.

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Charis is an OpenType-enabled font family that supports the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It includes a number of optional features that may be useful or required for particular uses or languages. This document lists all the available features.
These OpenType features are primarily specified using four-letter tags (e.g. 'cv17'), although some applications may provide a direct way to control certain common features such as small caps. For more information on how to access OpenType features in specific environments and applications, see [Using Font Features](https://software.sil.org/fonts/features).
This page uses web fonts (WOFF2) to demonstrate font features and should display correctly in all modern browsers. For a more concise example of how to use Charis as a web font see *Charis-webfont-example.html* in the font package *web* folder. For detailed information see [Using SIL Fonts on Web Pages](https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts).
*If this document is not displaying correctly a PDF version is also provided in the documentation/pdf folder of the release package.*
## Complete feature list
### Stylistic alternates
#### Small caps from lowercase <a id="scmp"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: all lowercase letters with capital equivalents and some bracketing punctuation</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>a ... z</span> (all letters with capital equivalents) ( ) [ ] { } | `smcp=0`
Small caps | <span class='charis-smcp-1-R normal'>a ... z</span> (all letters with capital equivalents) ( ) [ ] { } | `smcp=1`
#### Small caps from capitals <a id="c2sc"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: all capitals</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>A ... Z</span> (all capitals) | `c2sc=0`
Small caps | <span class='charis-c2sc-1-R normal'>A ... Z</span> (all capitals) | `c2sc=1`
#### Single-story a and g <a id="ss01"></a>
*This feature was formerly called 'Literacy alternates'.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0061 U+00AA U+00E0 U+00E1 U+00E2 U+00E3 U+00E4 U+00E5 U+0101 U+0103 U+0105 U+01CE U+01DF U+01E1 U+01FB U+0201 U+0203 U+0227 U+1E01 U+1E9A U+1EA1 U+1EA3 U+1EA5 U+1EA7 U+1EA9 U+1EAB U+1EAD U+1EAF U+1EB1 U+1EB3 U+1EB5 U+1EB7 U+2C65 U+2090 U+1D43 U+0363 U+0067 U+011D U+011F U+0121 U+0123 U+01E7 U+01F5 U+01E5 U+1E21 U+A7A1 U+1D4D</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>a ª à á â ã ä å ā ă ą ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ạ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ặ ⱥ ₐ ᵃ ◌ͣ g ĝ ğ ġ ģ ǧ ǵ ǥ ḡ ꞡ ᵍ </span> | `ss01=0`
Single-story | <span class='charis-ss01-1-R normal'>a ª à á â ã ä å ā ă ą ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ạ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ặ ⱥ ₐ ᵃ ◌ͣ g ĝ ğ ġ ģ ǧ ǵ ǥ ḡ ꞡ ᵍ </span> | `ss01=1`
#### Single-story a (only) <a id="ss11"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0061 U+00AA U+00E0 U+00E1 U+00E2 U+00E3 U+00E4 U+00E5 U+0101 U+0103 U+0105 U+01CE U+01DF U+01E1 U+01FB U+0201 U+0203 U+0227 U+1E01 U+1E9A U+1EA1 U+1EA3 U+1EA5 U+1EA7 U+1EA9 U+1EAB U+1EAD U+1EAF U+1EB1 U+1EB3 U+1EB5 U+1EB7 U+2C65 U+2090 U+1D43 U+0363</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>a ª à á â ã ä å ā ă ą ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ạ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ặ ⱥ ₐ ᵃ ◌ͣ </span> | `ss11=0`
Single-story | <span class='charis-ss11-1-R normal'>a ª à á â ã ä å ā ă ą ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ạ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ặ ⱥ ₐ ᵃ ◌ͣ </span> | `ss11=1`
#### Single-story g (only) <a id="ss12"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0067 U+011D U+011F U+0121 U+0123 U+01E7 U+01F5 U+01E5 U+1E21 U+A7A1 U+1D4D</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>g ĝ ğ ġ ģ ǧ ǵ ǥ ḡ ꞡ ᵍ </span> | `ss12=0`
Single-story | <span class='charis-ss12-1-R normal'>g ĝ ğ ġ ģ ǧ ǵ ǥ ḡ ꞡ ᵍ </span> | `ss12=1`
#### Barred-bowl forms <a id="ss04"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0111 U+0180 U+01E5</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>đ ƀ ǥ</span> | `ss04=0`
Barred-bowl | <span class='charis-ss04-1-R normal'>đ ƀ ǥ</span> | `ss04=1`
#### Slant italic specials <a id="ss05"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0061 U+00E3 U+00E0 U+00E1 U+00E2 U+00E4 U+00E5 U+0101 U+0103 U+01CE U+01DF U+01E1 U+01FB U+0201 U+0203 U+0227 U+1E01 U+1E9A U+1EA3 U+1EA5 U+1EA7 U+1EA9 U+1EAB U+1EAD U+1EAF U+1EB1 U+1EB3 U+1EB5 U+1EA1 U+1EB7 U+2C65 U+0250 U+00E6 U+0066 U+1E1F U+0069 U+00EC U+00ED U+00EE U+00EF U+0129 U+012B U+012D U+012F U+01D0 U+0209 U+020B U+1E2D U+1E2F U+1EC9 U+1ECB U+0131 U+006C U+013A U+1E37 U+1E39 U+1E3B U+1E3D U+0076 U+1E7D U+1E7F U+007A U+017A U+017C U+017E U+1E91 U+1E93 U+1E95 U+0493 U+04FB U+F327 U+A749 U+A75F U+2097</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-I normal'>a ã à á â ä å ā ă ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ạ ặ ⱥ ɐ æ f ḟ i ì í î ï ĩ ī ĭ į ǐ ȉ ȋ ḭ ḯ ỉ ị ı l ĺ ḷ ḹ ḻ ḽ ꝉ ₗ v ṽ ṿ ꝟ z ź ż ž ẑ ẓ ẕ ғ ӻ  fi ffi</span> | `ss05=0`
Slanted | <span class='charis-ss05-1-I normal'>a ã à á â ä å ā ă ǎ ǟ ǡ ǻ ȁ ȃ ȧ ḁ ẚ ả ấ ầ ẩ ẫ ậ ắ ằ ẳ ẵ ạ ặ ⱥ ɐ æ f ḟ i ì í î ï ĩ ī ĭ į ǐ ȉ ȋ ḭ ḯ ỉ ị ı l ĺ ḷ ḹ ḻ ḽ ꝉ ₗ v ṽ ṿ ꝟ z ź ż ž ẑ ẓ ẕ ғ ӻ  fi ffi</span> | `ss05=1`
### Character alternates
#### B hook <a id="cv13"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0181</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ɓ</span> | `cv13=0`
Lowercase-style | <span class='charis-cv13-1-R normal'>Ɓ</span> | `cv13=1`
#### D hook <a id="cv17"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+018A</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ɗ</span> | `cv17=0`
Lowercase-style | <span class='charis-cv17-1-R normal'>Ɗ</span> | `cv17=1`
#### H stroke <a id="cv28"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0126</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ħ</span> | `cv28=0`
Vertical stroke | <span class='charis-cv28-1-R normal'>Ħ</span> | `cv28=1`
#### J stroke hook <a id="cv37"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0284</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ʄ</span> | `cv37=0`
Top serif | <span class='charis-cv37-1-R normal'>ʄ</span> | `cv37=1`
#### Eng <a id="cv43"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+014A</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ŋ</span> | `cv43=0`
Lowercase style on baseline | <span class='charis-cv43-1-R normal'>Ŋ</span> | `cv43=1`
Uppercase style with descender | <span class='charis-cv43-2-R normal'>Ŋ</span> | `cv43=2`
Alt. lowercase style on baseline | <span class='charis-cv43-3-R normal'>Ŋ</span> | `cv43=3`
#### N left hook <a id="cv44"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+019D</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ɲ</span> | `cv44=0`
Uppercase-style | <span class='charis-cv44-1-R normal'>Ɲ</span> | `cv44=1`
#### Open-O <a id="cv46"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0186 U+0254 U+1D10 U+1D53 U+1D97</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ɔ ɔ ᴐ ᵓ ᶗ</span> | `cv46=0`
Top serif | <span class='charis-cv46-1-R normal'>Ɔ ɔ ᴐ ᵓ ᶗ</span> | `cv46=1`
#### OU <a id="cv47"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0222 U+0223 U+1D3D U+1D15</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ȣ ȣ ᴕ ᴽ</span> | `cv47=0`
Open | <span class='charis-cv47-1-R normal'>Ȣ ȣ ᴕ ᴽ</span> | `cv47=1`
#### p hook <a id="cv49"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01A5</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ƥ</span> | `cv49=0`
Right hook | <span class='charis-cv49-1-R normal'>ƥ</span> | `cv49=1`
#### R tail <a id="cv55"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+2C64</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'></span> | `cv55=0`
Lowercase-style | <span class='charis-cv55-1-R normal'></span> | `cv55=1`
#### T hook <a id="cv57"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01AC</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ƭ</span> | `cv57=0`
Right hook | <span class='charis-cv57-1-R normal'>Ƭ</span> | `cv57=1`
#### V hook <a id="cv62"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01B2 U+028B U+1DB9</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ʋ ʋ</span> | `cv62=0`
Straight with low hook | <span class='charis-cv62-1-R normal'>Ʋ ʋ</span> | `cv62=1`
Straight with high hook | <span class='charis-cv62-2-R normal'>Ʋ ʋ</span> | `cv62=2`
#### Y hook <a id="cv68"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01B3</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ƴ</span> | `cv68=0`
Left hook | <span class='charis-cv68-1-R normal'>Ƴ</span> | `cv68=1`
#### Ezh <a id="cv20"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01B7 U+04E0</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ʒ Ӡ</span> | `cv20=0`
Reversed sigma | <span class='charis-cv20-1-R normal'>Ʒ Ӡ</span> | `cv20=1`
#### ezh curl <a id="cv19"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0293</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ʓ</span> | `cv19=0`
Large bowl | <span class='charis-cv19-1-R normal'>ʓ</span> | `cv19=1`
#### rams horn <a id="cv25"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0264 U+10791</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ɤ 𐞑</span> | `cv25=0`
Large bowl | <span class='charis-cv25-1-R normal'>ɤ 𐞑</span> | `cv25=1`
Small gamma | <span class='charis-cv25-2-R normal'>ɤ 𐞑</span> | `cv25=2`
#### Clicks <a id="cv69"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+01C0 U+01C1 U+01C2 U+2980</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard (descending) | <span class='charis-R normal'>ǀ ǁ ǂ ⦀</span> | `cv69=0`
Baseline | <span class='charis-cv69-1-R normal'>ǀ ǁ ǂ ⦀</span> | `cv69=1`
### Diacritic and symbol alternates
#### Vietnamese-style diacritics <a id="cv75"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+1EA4 U+1EA5 U+1EA6 U+1EA7 U+1EA8 U+1EA9 U+1EAA U+1EAB U+1EAE U+1EAF U+1EB0 U+1EB1 U+1EB2 U+1EB3 U+1EB4 U+1EB5 U+1EBE U+1EBF U+1EC0 U+1EC1 U+1EC2 U+1EC3 U+1EC4 U+1EC5 U+1ED0 U+1ED1 U+1ED2 U+1ED3 U+1ED4 U+1ED5 U+1ED6 U+1ED7</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Ấấ Ầầ Ẩẩ Ẫẫ Ắắ Ằằ Ẳẳ Ẵẵ Ếế Ềề Ểể Ễễ Ốố Ồồ Ổổ Ỗỗ</span> | `cv75=0`
Vietnamese-style | <span class='charis-cv75-1-R normal'>Ấấ Ầầ Ẩẩ Ẫẫ Ắắ Ằằ Ẳẳ Ẵẵ Ếế Ềề Ểể Ễễ Ốố Ồồ Ổổ Ỗỗ</span> | `cv75=1`
#### Kayan diacritics <a id="cv79"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0300 U+0301</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>◌̀́</span> | `cv79=0`
Side by side | <span class='charis-cv79-1-R normal'>◌̀́</span> | `cv79=1`
#### Ogonek <a id="cv76"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0328 U+0104 U+0105 U+0118 U+0119 U+012E U+012F U+0172 U+0173 U+01EA U+01EB U+01EC U+01ED</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>anything with ◌̨ (Ąą Ęę Įį Ųų Ǫǫ Ǭǭ)</span> | `cv76=0`
Straight | <span class='charis-cv76-1-R normal'>anything with ◌̨ (Ąą Ęę Įį Ųų Ǫǫ Ǭǭ)</span> | `cv76=1`
#### Caron <a id="cv77"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+010F U+013D U+013E U+0165</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ď Ľ ľ ť</span> | `cv77=0`
Global-style | <span class='charis-cv77-1-R normal'>ď Ľ ľ ť</span> | `cv77=1`
#### Modifier apostrophe <a id="cv70"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+02BB U+02BC U+02BD U+0312 U+0314 U+A78B U+A78C</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ʻ ʼ ʽ ◌̒ ◌̔ Ꞌ </span> | `cv70=0`
Large | <span class='charis-cv70-1-R normal'>ʻ ʼ ʽ ◌̒ ◌̔ Ꞌ </span> | `cv70=1`
#### Modifier colon <a id="cv71"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+A789</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'></span> | `cv71=0`
Expanded | <span class='charis-cv71-1-R normal'></span> | `cv71=1`
#### Empty set <a id="cv98"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+2205</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'></span> | `cv98=0`
Zero-style | <span class='charis-cv98-1-R normal'></span> | `cv98=1`
### Cyrillic alternates
*There are also Cyrillic characters affected by the “Ezh” and “Small capitals” features. Some languages may also use the “Modifier apostrophe”.*
#### Cyrillic E <a id="cv80"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+042D U+044D</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>Э э</span> | `cv80=0`
Mongolian-style | <span class='charis-cv80-1-R normal'>Э э</span> | `cv80=1`
#### Cyrillic shha <a id="cv81"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+04BB</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>һ</span> | `cv81=0`
Uppercase-style | <span class='charis-cv81-1-R normal'>һ</span> | `cv81=1`
#### Cyrillic breve <a id="cv82"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0306</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>anything with ◌̆ (Ә̆ә̆)</span> | `cv82=0`
Cyrillic-style | <span class='charis-cv82-1-R normal'>anything with ◌̆ (Ә̆ә̆)</span> | `cv82=1`
#### Serbian Cyrillic alternates <a id="langsr"></a>
*These alternate forms mainly affect italic styles. Unlike other features this is activated by tagging the span of text as being in the Serbian language, not by turning on an OpenType feature. It is also not available through TypeTuner Web although a similar feature is supported (cv84).*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0431 U+0433 U+0434 U+043F U+0442 U+0453</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-I normal'>б г д п т ѓ</span> |
Serbian | <span class='charis-I normal' lang='sr'>б г д п т ѓ</span> | `lang='sr'`
#### Macedonian Cyrillic alternates <a id="langmk"></a>
*These alternate forms mainly affect italic styles. Unlike other features this is activated by tagging the span of text as being in the Macedonian language, not by turning on an OpenType feature. It is also not available through TypeTuner Web although a similar feature is supported (cv84).*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0431 U+0433 U+0434 U+043F U+0442 U+0453</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-I normal'>б г д п т ѓ</span> |
Macedonian | <span class='charis-I normal' lang='mk'>б г д п т ѓ</span> | `lang='mk'`
#### Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic alternates <a id="cv84"></a>
*This feature provides an alternate way to activate the Serbian and Macedonian forms in applications that do not support language-specific features. It cannot, however, be used to explicitly turn off these forms in text tagged as being in the Serbian or Macedonian languages.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0431 U+0433 U+0434 U+043F U+0442 U+0453</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-I normal'>б г д п т ѓ</span> | `cv84=0`
Serbian Macedonian forms | <span class='charis-cv84-1-I normal'>б г д п т ѓ</span> | `cv84=1`
### Tone alternates
#### Chinantec tones <a id="cv90"></a>
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+02CB U+02C8 U+02C9 U+02CA</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>ˋ ˈ ˉ ˊ</span> | `cv90=0`
Chinantec-style | <span class='charis-cv90-1-R normal'>ˋ ˈ ˉ ˊ</span> | `cv90=1`
#### Tone numbers <a id="cv91"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+02E5 U+02E6 U+02E7 U+02E8 U+02E9 U+A712 U+A713 U+A714 U+A715 U+A716</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖</span> | `cv91=0`
Numbers | <span class='charis-cv91-1-R normal'>˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖</span> | `cv91=1`
#### Hide tone contour staves <a id="cv92"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+02E5 U+02E6 U+02E7 U+02E8 U+02E9 U+A712 U+A713 U+A714 U+A715 U+A716</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖ (˩˦˥˧˨ ꜖꜓꜒꜔꜕)</span> | `cv92=0`
Hide staves | <span class='charis-cv92-1-R normal'>˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ ꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖ (˩˦˥˧˨ ꜖꜓꜒꜔꜕)</span> | `cv92=1`
### Numeral alternates
#### Proportional oldstyle figures <a id="onum"></a>
*This feature only affects full-size numerals, not superscripts, subscripts, fractions, or numeral-based symbols.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0030 U+0031 U+0032 U+0033 U+0034 U+0035 U+0036 U+0037 U+0038 U+0039</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `onum=0`
Oldstyle | <span class='charis-onum-1-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `onum=1`
#### Subscript numerals <a id="subs"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0030 U+0031 U+0032 U+0033 U+0034 U+0035 U+0036 U+0037 U+0038 U+0039</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `subs=0`
Subscript | <span class='charis-subs-1-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `subs=1`
#### Superscript numerals <a id="sups"></a>
*This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0030 U+0031 U+0032 U+0033 U+0034 U+0035 U+0036 U+0037 U+0038 U+0039</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard | <span class='charis-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `sups=0`
Superscript | <span class='charis-sups-1-R normal'>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9</span> | `sups=1`
#### Automatic fractions <a id="frac"></a>
*When activated this feature will automatically create fractions when numerals are separated by either the fraction slash (U+2044) or the solidus (U+002F). This feature is not supported in TypeTuner Web.*
<span class='affects'>Affects: U+0030 U+0031 U+0032 U+0033 U+0034 U+0035 U+0036 U+0037 U+0038 U+0039 U+002F U+2044</span>
Feature | Sample | Feature setting
------- | --------------------------- | -------
Standard (none) | <span class='charis-R normal'>12 456789 1/2 456/789</span> | `frac=0`
Automatic | <span class='charis-frac-1-R normal'>12 456789 1/2 456/789</span> | `frac=1`
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### 2 Jun 2025 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis version 7.000
***Note that this is a major upgrade with significant changes to family structure, line spacing, and glyph metrics. Please read the following carefully to understand how the changes may affect you.***
#### Font names, family structure, and line metrics
- Font family names have changed. It is possible to have both this release (v7) and the previous one (v6.2) installed at the same time. This is a permanent change intended to help with the transition from v6.2 to v7.
- *Charis SIL* is now *Charis*
- There are additional intermediate weights. Previously existing weights have not changed. Here is a list, with retained weights in **bold** and new weights in *italic*. The CSS values for the weights within each family are in parentheses. Italic faces follow a similar structure and correspondence.
- **Charis Regular** (400)
- *Charis Medium* (500)
- *Charis SemiBold* (600)
- **Charis Bold** (700)
- The default line spacing has been significantly decreased to be more similar to other common text fonts, but remains wide enough to accommodate multiple stacked diacritics.
- There are no *Compact* variants. These are less needed since the default line spacing has been decreased. *Compact* versions of the v6.2 fonts remain available from https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/
- TypeTuner Web no longer offers line spacing alternatives for the v7 fonts (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the v6.2 fonts remain available and support line spacing alternatives.
- There are no pre-tuned regional or *Literacy* special-purpose modified variants. The v6.2 variants, including *Literacy* versions, remain available from https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/. You can still manually create v7 variants with TypeTuner Web that include literacy forms and other alternatives.
#### New features and enhancements
- Kerning has now been added and covers the full range of alphabetic symbols except for small caps (which will be included in a future update). **Warning: Because of the addition of extensive kerning, line, paragraph, and page lengths may be different from v6.2.**
- Proportional Oldstyle figures are now supported through the standard OpenType feature (`onum`). These only apply to the main numerals, not fractions, superscripts, or numeral-based symbols.
- The default form for capital N with left hook has been changed to the lowercase style to match the capital Eng. The related feature (`cv44`) has been changed to substitute the uppercase style form.
- U+019D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK
- Additions to Modifier Apostrophe feature (`cv70`)
- U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA
- U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA
- U+0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE
- U+0314 COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE
- Addition to Rams Horn feature (`cv25`)
- U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN
- Small caps added for these parentheses and brackets
- U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS
- U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS
- U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
- U+005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
- U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET
- U+007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
#### New character support
- Unicode 16 additions
- U+1C89 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE
- U+1C8A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE
- U+A7CB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RAMS HORN
- This was previously in the SIL PUA (U+F26E)
- U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
- U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
- U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA
- U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA
- U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
- Orthographic at signs
- U+24B6 CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
- U+24D0 CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A
- Additional Cyrillic modifiers
- U+A69C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC HARD SIGN
- U+A69D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN
- Case mapping for Coptic eie
- U+2C89 COPTIC SMALL LETTER EIE
- Upwards ancora (and revised downwards form)
- U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
- U+2E15 UPWARDS ANCORA
- Prosodic symbols
- U+23D1 METRICAL BREVE
- U+23D2 METRICAL LONG OVER SHORT
- U+23D3 METRICAL SHORT OVER LONG
- U+23D4 METRICAL LONG OVER TWO SHORTS
- U+23D5 METRICAL TWO SHORTS OVER LONG
- U+23D6 METRICAL TWO SHORTS JOINED
- U+2E3D VERTICAL SIX DOTS
- Doubled brackets and parentheses
- U+27EA MATHEMATICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
- U+27EB MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
- U+2E28 LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
- U+2E29 RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
- Logical symbols
- U+21AE LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE
- U+22BB XOR
- U+22BC NAND
- U+22BD NOR
#### Improvements and fixes
- Support added for complex positioning of bridging double diacritics and nearby marks. Correct rendering requires a very specific encoding sequence - see https://software.sil.org/fonts/bridging-diacritics/
- U+035C COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW
- U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE
- U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON
- U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW
- U+0360 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE
- U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE
- U+0362 COMBINING DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW
- U+1DCD COMBINING DOUBLE CIRCUMFLEX ABOVE
- U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW
- U+F17A COMBINING DOUBLE DIAERESIS (in SIL PUA)
- Redesigned Central European carons
- U+010F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON
- U+013D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
- U+013E LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
- U+0165 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON
- Revised hooked letters to improve spacing (including kerning) and reduce collisions. Some collisions have been retained to reduce unwanted whitespace within words (e.g. ƴk).
- U+0188 LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH HOOK
- U+01A5 LATIN SMALL LETTER P WITH HOOK
- U+01AD LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK
- U+01B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH HOOK
- U+01B4 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH HOOK
- U+0260 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH HOOK
- U+02A0 LATIN SMALL LETTER Q WITH HOOK
- U+2C71 LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH RIGHT HOOK
- U+2C72 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH HOOK
- U+2C73 LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH HOOK
- U+1DF09 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- Fixed position of
- U+1D09 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED I
- U+1D4E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED I
- Fixed dotless form of
- U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- Fixed spacing of
- U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN
- Revised design of
- U+A720 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND HIGH TONE
- U+A721 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND LOW TONE
- Fixed position of
- U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T
- Increased size of Vietnamese hook above
- U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE
- Improved design of some combining diacritics
- U+032B COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW
- U+033C COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW
- U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE
- Revised anchors on many letters to improve diacritic positioning, including these and related letters
- U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
- U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
- U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
- U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F
- U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I
- U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
- U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE
- Reviewed anchors on spacing acutes and graves
- U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT
- U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT
- U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT
- U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT
- U+02CE MODIFIER LETTER LOW GRAVE ACCENT
- U+02CF MODIFIER LETTER LOW ACUTE ACCENT
- Autohinting is more consistent across the font family
### 1 Feb 2023 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.200
This release is focused on adding features and glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode 14 and 15. It does not include significant changes to line spacing, glyph widths, or kerning that might cause document reflow or layout changes - except for minor improvements to the size and weight of superscript, subscript, and modifier letters.
#### New features, including *TypeTuner Web* support
- Feature to display alternate design of clicks that sit on baseline
- Baseline clicks (cv69)
- Standard 'subs' and 'sups' features for numerals. These are not supported by *TypeTuner Web*.
- Subscript numerals (subs)
- Superscript numerals (sups)
- Feature to automatically construct fractions when using U+002F SOLIDUS or U+2044 FRACTION SLASH. This is not supported by *TypeTuner Web*.
- Automatic fractions (frac)
#### New character support
- Additional click (also supported by new baseline clicks feature)
- U+2980 TRIPLE VERTICAL BAR DELIMITER
- Letters used for legacy Malayalam transliteration
- U+1DF25 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF26 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF27 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF28 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF29 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- U+1DF2A LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH MID-HEIGHT LEFT HOOK
- Letters used for Egyptological transliteration
- U+A7BA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL A
- U+A7BB LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL A
- U+A7BC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL I
- U+A7BD LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL I
- U+A7BE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL U
- U+A7BF LATIN SMALL LETTER GLOTTAL U
- Combining marks
- U+1ABF COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER W BELOW
- U+1AC0 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED W BELOW
- U+1AC6 COMBINING NUMBER SIGN ABOVE
- U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE
- U+1AC8 COMBINING PLUS SIGN ABOVE
- U+1AC9 COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN ABOVE
- U+1ACA COMBINING DOUBLE PLUS SIGN BELOW
- U+1ACB COMBINING TRIPLE ACUTE ACCENT
- U+1ACC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR G
- U+1ACD COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR R
- U+1ACE COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER INSULAR T
- U+1DDA COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER G
- U+1DDC COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER K
- U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW
- Combining marks that are not recommended for normal use and may not combine well with letters. Precomposed characters that include the hook should be used instead except in rare cases.
- U+0321 COMBINING PALATALIZED HOOK BELOW
- U+0322 COMBINING RETROFLEX HOOK BELOW
- Modifier letters and symbols
- U+A7F2 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL C
- U+A7F3 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL F
- U+A7F4 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL Q
- U+AB69 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED W
- U+AB6A MODIFIER LETTER LEFT TACK
- U+AB6B MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT TACK
- U+10780 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL AA
- U+10781 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT TRIANGULAR COLON
- U+10782 MODIFIER LETTER SUPERSCRIPT HALF TRIANGULAR COLON
- U+10784 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL B
- U+10785 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL B WITH HOOK
- U+10787 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH
- U+10788 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+10789 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DZ DIGRAPH WITH CURL
- U+1078A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DEZH DIGRAPH
- U+1078B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH TAIL
- U+1078C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK
- U+1078D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL D WITH HOOK AND TAIL
- U+10790 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL FENG DIGRAPH
- U+10792 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G
- U+10793 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL G WITH HOOK
- U+10794 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK
- U+10796 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL H
- U+10797 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG WITH HOOK
- U+10798 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK
- U+10799 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LS DIGRAPH
- U+1079A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LZ DIGRAPH
- U+1079B MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH BELT
- U+1079C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT
- U+1079D MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT
- U+1079E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH
- U+1079F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107A1 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y WITH BELT
- U+107A4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED OMEGA
- U+107A5 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Q
- U+107A6 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG
- U+107A7 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107A8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH TAIL
- U+107A9 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL R WITH FISHHOOK
- U+107AA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL R
- U+107AB MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TC DIGRAPH WITH CURL
- U+107AC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH
- U+107AD MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107AE MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TESH DIGRAPH
- U+107AF MODIFIER LETTER SMALL T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107B0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL V WITH RIGHT HOOK
- U+107B3 MODIFIER LETTER GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE
- U+107B4 MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP WITH STROKE
- U+107B5 MODIFIER LETTER BILABIAL CLICK
- U+107B6 MODIFIER LETTER DENTAL CLICK
- U+107B7 MODIFIER LETTER LATERAL CLICK
- U+107B8 MODIFIER LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK
- U+107B9 MODIFIER LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+107BA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL S WITH CURL
- Cyrillic modifier letters, subscripts, and combining marks
- U+1E030 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL A
- U+1E031 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BE
- U+1E032 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL VE
- U+1E033 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL GHE
- U+1E034 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL DE
- U+1E035 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL IE
- U+1E036 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZHE
- U+1E037 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ZE
- U+1E038 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL I
- U+1E039 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL KA
- U+1E03A MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EL
- U+1E03B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EM
- U+1E03C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL O
- U+1E03D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PE
- U+1E03E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ER
- U+1E03F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES
- U+1E040 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TE
- U+1E041 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL U
- U+1E042 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL EF
- U+1E043 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL HA
- U+1E044 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL TSE
- U+1E045 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL CHE
- U+1E046 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SHA
- U+1E047 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YERU
- U+1E048 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL E
- U+1E049 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL YU
- U+1E04B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL SCHWA
- U+1E04C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- U+1E04D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL JE
- U+1E04E MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL BARRED O
- U+1E04F MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U
- U+1E050 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL PALOCHKA
- U+1E051 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER A
- U+1E052 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BE
- U+1E053 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER VE
- U+1E054 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE
- U+1E055 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DE
- U+1E056 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER IE
- U+1E057 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZHE
- U+1E058 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ZE
- U+1E059 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER I
- U+1E05A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER KA
- U+1E05B CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EL
- U+1E05C CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER O
- U+1E05D CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER PE
- U+1E05E CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER ES
- U+1E05F CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER U
- U+1E060 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER EF
- U+1E061 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HA
- U+1E062 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER TSE
- U+1E063 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER CHE
- U+1E064 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER SHA
- U+1E065 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
- U+1E066 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER YERU
- U+1E067 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER GHE WITH UPTURN
- U+1E068 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- U+1E069 CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZE
- U+1E06A CYRILLIC SUBSCRIPT SMALL LETTER DZHE
- U+1E06B MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL ES WITH DESCENDER
- U+1E06D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SMALL STRAIGHT U WITH STROKE
- U+1E08F COMBINING CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
- Miscellaneous letters
- U+A7C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7C8 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7C9 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+A7CA LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH SHORT STROKE OVERLAY
- U+AB66 LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+AB67 LATIN SMALL LETTER TS DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+AB68 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH MIDDLE TILDE
- Symbols
- U+2031 PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN
- U+203D INTERROBANG
- U+203E OVERLINE
- U+2042 ASTERISM
- U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET
- U+20C0 SOM SIGN
- U+218A TURNED DIGIT TWO
- U+218B TURNED DIGIT THREE
- U+21B6 ANTICLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW
- U+21B7 CLOCKWISE TOP SEMICIRCLE ARROW
- U+21BA ANTICLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- U+21BB CLOCKWISE OPEN CIRCLE ARROW
- U+2215 DIVISION SLASH
- U+2221 MEASURED ANGLE
- U+2227 LOGICAL AND
- U+2228 LOGICAL OR
- U+226E NOT LESS-THAN
- U+226F NOT GREATER-THAN
- U+2318 PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN
- U+25C9 FISHEYE
- U+25CB WHITE CIRCLE
- U+2610 BALLOT BOX
- U+2611 BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK
- U+2612 BALLOT BOX WITH X
- U+2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE
- U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE
- U+2713 CHECK MARK
- U+2717 BALLOT X
- U+27C2 PERPENDICULAR
- U+2AFD DOUBLE SOLIDUS OPERATOR
- U+2E3E WIGGLY VERTICAL LINE
- U+1F12F COPYLEFT SYMBOL
- U+1F610 NEUTRAL FACE
#### Improvements and fixes
- Kayan diacritics feature (cv79) now supported by TypeTuner Web
- Combining letters, modifier letters, superscripts, and subscripts have been made more consistent in size and weight
- Encoding fixed for U+1078E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED E
- Size increased for:
- U+02BE MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT HALF RING
- U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING
- U+02D2 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED RIGHT HALF RING
- U+02D3 MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED LEFT HALF RING
- U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR is now included in single-story/double-story features
- The combination of U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK forms a ligature
- Small cap form corrected for U+A78D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED H / U+0265 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED H
- U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK repositioned to middle leg of U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M
- Diacritic positioning improved for U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- Diacritic positioning improved for U+2183 ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED
- Position of dot changed for U+1E23 LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DOT ABOVE
#### Notes
- The next major version (7) will address some complex pending issues and features and may include substantial changes to line spacing, glyph metrics, kerning, and even font family structure. If you have any requests for future versions please contact us as soon as possible.
### 9 Feb 2022 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.101
This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6 fonts available on *TypeTuner Web*.
#### New
- The fonts now support SIL *TypeTuner*. Customized fonts can be created at *TypeTuner Web* (https://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi)
- New `locl` OpenType feature that supports Macedonian (MKD/mk) Cyrillic alternates
- Serbian and Macedonian alternates are also available through a new OpenType feature (cv84) for applications that do not support language-specific `locl` features
- Characters have been added to support Unicode versions up to 14.0.0 (more to be added in future releases):
- U+A7C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+A7C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH HOOK
- U+1DF00 LATIN SMALL LETTER FENG DIGRAPH WITH TRILL
- U+1DF01 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED SCRIPT G
- U+1DF02 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED G
- U+1DF03 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED K
- U+1DF05 LATIN SMALL LETTER LEZH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF07 LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED ENG
- U+1DF09 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH HOOK AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF0A LATIN LETTER RETROFLEX CLICK WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF0B LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR
- U+1DF0C LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH WITH DOUBLE BAR AND CURL
- U+1DF0D LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T WITH CURL
- U+1DF0E LATIN LETTER INVERTED GLOTTAL STOP WITH CURL
- U+1DF0F LATIN LETTER STRETCHED C WITH CURL
- U+1DF10 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED K
- U+1DF11 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH FISHHOOK
- U+1DF12 LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF13 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH BELT AND PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF14 LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF15 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF16 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH FISHHOOK AND PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF17 LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH WITH PALATAL HOOK
- U+1DF19 LATIN SMALL LETTER DEZH DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1B LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1C LATIN SMALL LETTER TESH DIGRAPH WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1D LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+1DF1E LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CURL
#### Improved
- The special-purpose modified fonts have been updated to be based on the current version. These are available at https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/ and include *Literacy* and *Compact* versions.
- U+02DE MODIFIER LETTER RHOTIC HOOK position improved with modifier vowels:
- U+02B8 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL Y
- U+1D53 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL OPEN O
- U+1D5A MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED M
- U+1DBA MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED V
- Design improved for these characters:
- U+0184 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TONE SIX
- U+0185 LATIN SMALL LETTER TONE SIX
- The small caps feature (smcp) now supports more characters
- The spacing of Serbian italic alternates has been improved
#### Changed encoding
- The following characters were in the SIL PUA but have now been given Unicode assignments. The SIL PUA characters are now deprecated:
- U+A7C6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH PALATAL HOOK (was U+F234)
- U+10783 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL AE (was U+F1A1)
- U+1078F MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E (was U+F1A4)
- U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN (was U+F1B5)
- U+10795 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH STROKE (was U+F1BC)
- U+107A0 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED Y (was U+F1CE)
- U+107A2 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL O WITH STROKE (was U+F1AB)
- U+107A3 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OE (was U+F1AE)
- U+107B2 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Y (was U+F1B4)
- U+1088E NABATAEAN LETTER FINAL KAPH (was U+F1A3)
- U+1DF04 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL L WITH BELT (was U+F268)
- U+1DF06 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED Y WITH BELT (was U+F267)
- U+1DF08 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH LONG LEG AND RETROFLEX HOOK (was U+F269)
- U+1DF18 LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH WITH PALATAL HOOK (was U+F235)
### 2 July 2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.001
- Reverted font Postscript name to that used in v5 and earlier to avoid problems with unrecognized fonts when opening older documents.
### 29 Jun 2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Charis SIL version 6.000
***Note that this is a major upgrade that may cause document reflow as some glyphs widths have changed and some features have been removed.***
#### Removed
- **Removed DSIGs added in version 5.000.** These have now been removed to reflect current best practice font development guidance. Adobe InDesign will complain that fonts cannot be found if a document last saved with version 5.000 is opened with version 5.960 or later installed. It will be necessary to find/replace the fonts in the document using the command in the Type menu. Please also look over the document carefully to note any places where changes in the fonts have affected letterforms or spacing.
- **Graphite has been removed.** Application and OS support for OpenType has greatly improved, so the need for Graphite in this font family is greatly reduced. *If this affects you, and you find that OpenType does not provide sufficient support for your needs, please contact us right away.*
- Removed the *Show Invisibles* feature.
- Removed support for nine-level pitch contours. These will be replaced by a standalone pitch contours font in the future.
#### Added
Characters added to support Unicode versions 7.0-13.0, including feature support (e.g. small caps) where appropriate:
- U+03D1 GREEK THETA SYMBOL
- U+03F4 GREEK CAPITAL THETA SYMBOL
- U+1AB0 COMBINING DOUBLED CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
- U+1AB1 COMBINING DIAERESIS-RING
- U+1AB2 COMBINING INFINITY
- U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW
- U+1AB4 COMBINING TRIPLE DOT
- U+1AB5 COMBINING X-X BELOW
- U+1AB6 COMBINING WIGGLY LINE BELOW
- U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB9 COMBINING LIGHT CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW
- U+1ABA COMBINING STRONG CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW
- U+1DF5 COMBINING UP TACK ABOVE
- U+203B REFERENCE MARK
- U+20BE LARI SIGN
- U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN
- U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
- U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET
- U+2E13 DOTTED OBELOS
- U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
- U+2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
- U+2E22 TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E23 TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E24 BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E25 BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET
- U+A78F LATIN LETTER SINOLOGICAL DOT
- U+A7AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I
- U+A7AF LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q
- U+A7B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CHI
- U+A7B4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER BETA
- U+A7B5 LATIN SMALL LETTER BETA
- U+A7B6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA
- U+A7B7 LATIN SMALL LETTER OMEGA
- U+A7B8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH STROKE
- U+A7B9 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH STROKE
- U+AB30 LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED ALPHA
- U+AB53 LATIN SMALL LETTER CHI
- U+AB5C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG
- U+AB5E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE
- U+F26E CAPITAL RAMS HORN (in SIL PUA)
#### New
- First release that uses a UFO-based design and production workflow
- All sources are in open formats
- Build toolkit and workflow is completely open-source
- See https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Introduction.html
- Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats
- Applied new hinting techniques to try to improve screen rendering on Windows
- All-new documentation in HTML and PDF formats
- Features for controlling literacy forms of a and g separately
- Literacy a alternates (ss02)
- Literacy g alternates (ss03)
- Feature to support side-by-side rendering of U+0300 plus U+0301
- Kayan diacritics (cv79)
- Tone letter features (cv91 & cv92) now supported through OpenType
#### Fixes
- Width of typographic spaces have been made more consistent to reflect common publishing industry usage. Note that this may affect line and page lengths. Affected spaces:
- U+2000 EN QUAD (made width consistent)
- U+2001 EM QUAD (made width consistent)
- U+2007 FIGURE SPACE (made wider to match numerals in all styles)
- U+2009 THIN SPACE (made narrower)
- U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (made narrower)
- Fixed some small capital correspondences, including added support for clicks
- Fixed problems with spacing of tone letters
- Fixed missing or distorted Vietnamese composite glyphs
- Fixed miscellaneous distorted glyphs
- Improved miscellaneous anchor positions, including the position of diacritics below glyphs with macrons below (e.g. U+1E0F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH LINE BELOW)
- Improved position of diacritics for superscripts and modifier letters (including cedilla, ogonek, rhotic hook)
- Fixes and improvements to various glyphs:
- U+0037 DIGIT SEVEN (spacing)
- U+01E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH STROKE (bar position on single-story variant)
- U+02D6 MODIFIER LETTER PLUS SIGN (size)
- U+02DF MODIFIER LETTER CROSS ACCENT (size)
- U+02E4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP (form)
- U+033B COMBINING SQUARE BELOW (more rectangular)
- U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW (position fixes since beta 1)
- U+1D02 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED AE (made double-story in italic)
- U+1D15 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OU (form)
- U+1D46 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED AE (made double-story in italic)
- U+1D77 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED G (position)
- U+1D78 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN (form)
- U+1EFC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER MIDDLE-WELSH V
- U+A76A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ET
- U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET
- U+A76C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IS
- U+A76D LATIN SMALL LETTER IS
- U+A77F LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G (position)
- U+A7F8 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL H WITH STROKE (form)
- U+A7FA LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED M (italic)
#### Known issues
- There is no support for TypeTuner or TypeTuner Web. We hope to add that support soon.
- There are no regional subsets. Please contact us if these are a priority for you and describe how you use them. We are reassessing whether to provide these subsets. With current web technology and WOFF2 compression most uses can be met equally well with the full fonts.
### 27 Oct 2014 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 5.000
- Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support
of previously Graphite-only features
- Added Character Variants to the font for OpenType support
of previously Graphite-only features
- Added Serbian feature when Serbian language is turned on
- Added hook D variant feature (for U+018A/U+0257)
- Removed "Show deprecated PUA" feature
- Removed "Romanian-style diacritics" feature
(because glyphs are now encoded)
- Removed "Diacritic selection" feature
- Added U+039E, U+03BC, U+03C6 and U+03C9 in the Greek and Coptic block
- Added U+0528..U+052F in the Cyrillic Supplement block
- Added U+2041 in the General Punctuation block
- Added U+2095..U+209C in the Superscripts and Subscripts block
- Added U+20B6..U+20BD in the Currency Symbols block
- Added U+210C, U+2113, U+2117, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F in the
Letterlike Symbols block
- Added U+2150..U+2152 and U+2189 in the Number Forms block
- Added U+2226, U+2234..U+2235, U+2262, U+2282..U+2287 in the
Mathematical Operators block
- Added U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F in the Miscellaneous Symbols block
- Added U+27E8..U+27E9 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block
- Added U+2C7E..U+2C7F in the Latin Extended-C block
- Added U+2C88 in the Coptic block
- Added U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E3A..U+2E3B in the Supplemental
Punctuation block
- Added U+A736..U+A73F, U+A742..U+A74D, U+A750..U+A787, U+A790..U+A7AD,
U+A7B0..U+A7B1, U+A7F7..U+A7FA in the Latin Extended-D block.
These were also added to relevant features.
- Added U+A92E in the Kayah Li block (to support the Kayah Li language
when using the Roman script)
- Added U+AB64..U+AB65 in the Latin Extended-E block
- Added U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D50F, U+1D514,
U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block
- Added PUA characters U+F26C (curl J) and U+F26D (left-hook b)
- Characters in our PUA that were added to Unicode have had their
codepoints updated:
F1AD>A7F9, F266>A78E, F26B>A78D, F32C>0526, F32D>0527, F17B>1DFD, F209>2C70
- These PUA characters were deprecated (now white on black glyphs):
U+F17B, U+F1AD, U+F209, U+F247, U+F248, U+F266, U+F26B, U+F32C, U+F32D
- Deleted U+0149 as it is officially deprecated in Unicode
- Added support for shorter macrons under narrow letters (i,l,r,t).
(This only works for Graphite or using precomposed characters in OpenType.)
- Made it possible for saltillo characters (U+A78B and U+A78C) to "carry"
diacritics
- Improved design of U+A722..U+A725 and U+A78D
- Refactored all cedilla positioning
- Removal of unneeded duplicate glyphs (because of improvements in smart
font code)
- Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Vietnamese
alternates and Small Caps
- Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Ogonek
alternates and Small Caps
- Improved hinting
- Significant size, position and metric changes made to Subscript and Superscript
parentheses, plus, minus, equals.
- Size of guillomets (U+00AB U+00BB U+2039 U+203A) modified to match the font.
Metrics were not changed.
- Arrowhead design of U+21A8 modified to match the other arrows
- Placement of Ogonek revisited
- Slight modification to positioning of U+0361 and U+035C in Italic and Bold Italic
- Changed the strongly curved hooks on Cyrillic U+04C3..U+04C4, U+04C7..U+04C8,
U+04FC..U+04FD, U+0512..U+0513 to be more consistent with other hooks
- Modified Cyrillic italic versions of U+04AF, U+04B1, U+04B5, U+04BC, U+04BE, U+04D8
- Modified design of U+A78D to be more curved and less squared
- Changed postscript names for U+0218 and U+0219
- Changed postscript names for U+2203, U+232A and U+2329
- "Hide tone contour staves" feature now works with single tonebar
- U+1DBF now follows weight and italic changes
- Allowed combining marks to render properly with U+02D0
- Removed AAT support
### 10 Jun 2013 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.114
- optimized Graphite code for faster processing of plain ASCII text
### 1 Aug 2012 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.112
- Changed Graphite feature identifiers from integers to 4-character
alphanumeric tags (no other changes)
### 12 Sep 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.110
- Removed the VDMX table
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
### 25 Aug 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.108
- Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.2 and 6.0
(using ttfremap)
- Encoded 1D29 (using ttfremap)
- Corrected problem with coverage tables (using ttfsortcover)
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
- Added device metric tables
- Added an empty dsig table
### 05 May 2009 (Alan Ward) Charis SIL version 4.106
- TypeTuner (Silt) table changed so that line metrics from legacy fonts
can be imported
### 20 Mar 2009 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.106
- Added support for Unicode 5.1 Latin and Cyrillic additions
- Other characters added: 0462, 0463, 0474, 0475, 0524, 0525, 20E5, 2203, 2204,
231C..U+231F, 2329, 232A, 239B..23AD, A722..U+A725
- Added PUA characters F26B, F32C, F32D
- Design changes: 002F, 00A1, 00BF, 02D0, 02ED, 02FF, 034B, 04A8, 04A9, 04BC,
04BD, 04BE, 04BF, 04E0, 04E1, 045F, 04AA, 04AB, F208, F209, 0358
- Fixed attachment points on 1D68, 1D69, 1D6A, 04FA, 04FB, fi and fl ligatures
- Fixed collision issues for Vietnamese glyphs 'with horn'
- Fixed advance of t-caron
- Feature modifications:
* new alternates added to feature ID 1033 and renamed from Small v-hook
alternate
to V-hook alternates
* new alternate U+2C65 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH STROKE added to
Literacy alternates feature
* default for Diacritic selection was changed from "on" to "off"
(by request of FieldWorks team)
- Added new features:
* Small Caps
* Non-European caron alternates
* Capital B-hook alternate
* Show deprecated PUA
- Slant italic bug fixed (dot on i was not disappearing with combining marks)
- Removal of about 700 unused glyphs (including precomposed chao tone letters
which were no longer needed since these are now dynamically created)
- 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
### 9 May 2008 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.104
- Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.1
(using ttfremap)
- Changed version number (using ttfsetver)
### 16 Aug 2007 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.102
- Modified the OpenType features so that InDesign's built-in small caps work
### 31 Jan 2007 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.100
- Added PUA character F26A
- Added 2308, 2309
- Removed Cyrillic italic alternates feature and added those 3 characters to the
slant italic specials feature
- Fixed bug in nine-level tones (in PUA) feature
- Made Chinantec tones larger, added 02C9 to this feature
- Fixed bug in GSUB table to work in Pango
### 15 Dec 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.0.04 beta 1 (Version 4.004)
- Beta release (should not be distributed!)
- Added support for Unicode 5 Latin and Cyrillic additions
- Other new chars: 2053, 211F, 2123, 2423, FE20..FE23
- Numerous new PUA characters
- Deprecated some existing PUA chars now added to Unicode
- New features:
- Open O alternate
- Chinantec tones
- Pitch contour tramlines
- Cyrillic italic alternates
- Tone bars no longer limited to 3 sequences (OpenType)
- Added glyphs for nine-level tones (in PUA)
- Design changes to some Greek, Cyrillic, ogonek and modifier glyphs,
particularly in italic faces
### 31 Jan 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Charis SIL version 4.0.02 (Version 4.002)
- First version released under the SIL Open Font License

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## Requirements
These fonts are supported by all major operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux-based, iOS, and Android). However, the extent of that support depends on the individual OS and application.
## Installation
Install the fonts by decompressing the .zip archive and installing the fonts using the standard font installation process for .ttf (TrueType/OpenType) fonts for your platform. For additional tips see the help page on [Font installation](https://software.sil.org/fonts/installation).
## Keyboarding and character set support
These fonts do not include keyboards or other software for entering text. To type the symbols in these fonts use the keyboarding systems provided in your OS or use a separate utility. SILs [Keyman](https://keyman.com/) provides keyboards for over 2000 languages and works on all major desktop and mobile platforms. For information on other keyboarding options see the overview at [Keyboard Systems Overview (ScriptSource)](https://scriptsource.org/entry/ytr8g8n6sw).
See [Character set support](charset) for details of the Unicode characters supported by these fonts.
## Rendering and application support
These fonts will work normally like any other fonts in most applications. If the writing system requires special diacritic positioning the application/OS will need to support OpenType.
These fonts also include extensive OpenType features for small caps, literacy forms, character alernates and language-specific preferences. For information on the specific features available in these fonts see [Font features](features).
If special font features are to be activated, the application will need to provide a way to turn on the feature or choose the feature setting. Details of current application support, and specific techniques for activating features, are on the [Using Font Features](https://software.sil.org/fonts/features) help page.
Although the current fonts support only OpenType, previous versions provided support for Graphite and AAT (Apple Advanced Typography) technologies. Graphite was supported through version 5 and AAT was supported up to version 4. These older versions remain available from our [Previous Versions archive](https://software.sil.org/charis/download/previous-versions).
## TypeTuner
The [TypeTuner Web](https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi) service allows you to choose smart font features and download a font with those features preset. This enables them to work in many applications that do not fully support OpenType.
## Web fonts
Web font versions of these fonts (in WOFF and WOFF2 formats) are available in the `web` folder. These can be copied to a web server and used as fonts on web pages. A very basic HTML/CSS demo page is also included. For more information on the options and techniques available for using these fonts on web pages see [Using SIL Fonts on Web Pages](https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts).
## Text conversion
These fonts are encoded according to [The Unicode Standard](https://unicode.org). If you have text that uses a legacy, non-Unicode encoding there are tools that can help you convert that text for use with Unicode fonts. See [Introduction to Text Conversion and Transliteration](https://scriptsource.org/entry/xlzd6n5aqt).

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## Support options
As these fonts are distributed at no cost, we are unable to provide a commercial level of personal technical support. We will, however, try to resolve problems that are reported to us.
Before requesting technical support, please **carefully read all the documentation included with the fonts and linked pages on the web site**. The [Resources page](resources) is a good place to begin.
## Language Software Community
For person-to-person support visit the [SIL Language Software Community](https://community.software.sil.org/c/silfonts), where font developers and users can help each other. These support discussions can also help others in the future.
## Reporting bugs and feature requests
If you have a bug to report or a suggestion for how we could improve the fonts please create an issue in the [Github Charis project](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis/issues) or contact us directly.
## Contact form
If the documentation and community fail to answer your question or need further help using the fonts, please contact us using [the form on the Charis web site](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/).

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title: Charis - Resources
fontversion: 7.000
---
## Requirements
These fonts are supported by all major operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux-based, iOS, and Android). However, the extent of that support depends on the individual OS and application.
## Installation
Install the fonts by decompressing the .zip archive and installing the fonts using the standard font installation process for .ttf (TrueType/OpenType) fonts for your platform. For additional tips see the help page on [Font installation](https://software.sil.org/fonts/installation).
## Keyboarding and character set support
These fonts do not include keyboards or other software for entering text. To type the symbols in these fonts use the keyboarding systems provided in your OS or use a separate utility. SILs [Keyman](https://keyman.com/) provides keyboards for over 2000 languages and works on all major desktop and mobile platforms. For information on other keyboarding options see the overview at [Keyboard Systems Overview (ScriptSource)](https://scriptsource.org/entry/ytr8g8n6sw).
See [Character set support](charset.md) for details of the Unicode characters supported by these fonts.
## Rendering and application support
These fonts will work normally like any other fonts in most applications. If the writing system requires special diacritic positioning the application/OS will need to support OpenType.
These fonts also include extensive OpenType features for small caps, literacy forms, character alernates and language-specific preferences. For information on the specific features available in these fonts see [Font features](features.md).
If special font features are to be activated, the application will need to provide a way to turn on the feature or choose the feature setting. Details of current application support, and specific techniques for activating features, are on the [Using Font Features](https://software.sil.org/fonts/features) help page.
Although the current fonts support only OpenType, previous versions provided support for Graphite and AAT (Apple Advanced Typography) technologies. Graphite was supported through version 5 and AAT was supported up to version 4. These older versions remain available from our [Previous Versions archive](https://software.sil.org/charis/download/previous-versions).
## TypeTuner
The [TypeTuner Web](https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi) service allows you to choose smart font features and download a font with those features preset. This enables them to work in many applications that do not fully support OpenType.
## Web fonts
Web font versions of these fonts (in WOFF and WOFF2 formats) are available in the `web` folder. These can be copied to a web server and used as fonts on web pages. A very basic HTML/CSS demo page is also included. For more information on the options and techniques available for using these fonts on web pages see [Using SIL Fonts on Web Pages](https://software.sil.org/fonts/webfonts).
## Text conversion
These fonts are encoded according to [The Unicode Standard](https://unicode.org). If you have text that uses a legacy, non-Unicode encoding there are tools that can help you convert that text for use with Unicode fonts. See [Introduction to Text Conversion and Transliteration](https://scriptsource.org/entry/xlzd6n5aqt).

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title: Charis - Support
fontversion: 7.000
---
## Support options
As these fonts are distributed at no cost, we are unable to provide a commercial level of personal technical support. We will, however, try to resolve problems that are reported to us.
Before requesting technical support, please **carefully read all the documentation included with the fonts and linked pages on the web site**. The [Resources page](resources.md) is a good place to begin.
## Language Software Community
For person-to-person support visit the [SIL Language Software Community](https://community.software.sil.org/c/silfonts), where font developers and users can help each other. These support discussions can also help others in the future.
## Reporting bugs and feature requests
If you have a bug to report or a suggestion for how we could improve the fonts please create an issue in the [Github Charis project](https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis/issues) or contact us directly.
## Contact form
If the documentation and community fail to answer your question or need further help using the fonts, please contact us using [the form on the Charis web site](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/).

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title: Charis - Version 7 Changes
fontversion: 7.000
---
## New major release
Charis version 7 is a major release with many new additions, enhancements, and improvements. This is a summary of the most notable changes and what you need to know if you have been using earlier versions. **Please read this carefully to understand the major changes.** For further details on these changes, particularly regarding individual characters, see [Version History](history.md).
## Family names and structure
### Font family names have changed
Since the changes to both line metrics and spacing are so extensive, we have changed the names of the fonts for version 7.
- *Charis SIL* is now *Charis*
This enables you to keep the old v6.2 fonts installed when you install the new v7 ones. Projects and documents can then be gradually changed to use the new v7. **We do recommend that you start using v7 right away and phase out your use of v6.2 as soon as possible.**
### Revised family groups with additional weights
Charis now has additional intermediate weights. Previously existing weights have not changed. The CSS values for the weights within each family are in parentheses. Italic faces follow a similar structure and correspondence.
![New v7 weights](../assets/images/weights.png){.fullsize}
<!-- PRODUCT SITE IMAGE SRC https://software.sil.org/charis/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/05/weights.png -->
The new intermediate weights in this extended, axis-based family can be confusing for applications that still assume families should have only four members (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic). This is the case for Microsoft Word and some older Windows applications. For details on how to use the intermediate weights in these applications, see [Using Axis-Based Font Families](https://software.sil.org/fonts/axis-based-fonts/).
### Decreased default line spacing - and no Compact versions
The default line spacing of Charis has been significantly decreased. In the past, line spacing had to be extreme to avoid clipping of tall letters and high diacritics on Windows. This is no longer a problem, so weve been able to reduce the default line spacing to be more similar to other common text fonts. **We continue to recommend that you set line spacing explicitly in your document styles and preferences, and adjust it as needed for your particular situation.**
The v7 fonts do not have *Compact* variants. The new default line spacing is closer to the previous versions *Compact* line spacing. If you still need even closer line spacing, and your application does not allow explicit control over line spacing, you can continue to use the [v6.2 Charis SIL Compact fonts](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/), which remain available. **If you need any of the new v7 features or characters, but also need them supported in a compact version please [contact us](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/).**
TypeTuner Web no longer offers line spacing alternatives for the v7 fonts (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the v6.2 fonts remain available and support line spacing alternatives.
### Special-purpose modified variants have not been updated to v7
In previous versions, special-purpose modified font variants were available that had been pre-tuned to turn on certain features by default for some regional and *Literacy* uses. These are not available for the v7 fonts, however, the [v6.2 special-purpose fonts are still available](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/). **If you need any of the new features or characters in this version, but also need them supported in the special-purpose modified fonts please [contact us](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/).**
Note that even in version 7 the literacy forms and other features can be manually preset with [TypeTuner Web](https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi). The only change to this is that the 'pre-tuned' versions remain at version 6.2.
## New features and character support
### New kerning
Kerning has now been added to cover the full range of alphabetic symbols except for small caps (which will be included in a future update). To make this practically useful for a wide range of languages, the letters have been clustered into overly generalized groups. This enables the kerning to apply to more combinations, but does not allow for careful fine-tuning. The generalized kerning may not be ideal in all cases, and may still require manual adjustment, but it should provide improved spacing compared with previous versions. It is very possible that we have made some mistakes in this massive kerning effort, so please [contact us](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/) if you encounter any combinations whose spacing has been made worse than in v6.2.
**Warning: Because of the addition of extensive kerning, line, paragraph, and page lengths may be different from v6.2.**
![New kerning](../assets/images/kerning.png){.fullsize}
<!-- PRODUCT SITE IMAGE SRC https://software.sil.org/charis/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/05/kerning.png -->
### Proportional Oldstyle figures
Charis now includes support for standard OpenType proportional oldstyle figures (`onum`). These only apply to the main numerals, not fractions, superscripts, or numeral-based symbols.
![Oldstyle figures](../assets/images/oldstylefigures.png){.fullsize}
<!-- PRODUCT SITE IMAGE SRC https://software.sil.org/charis/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/05/oldstylefigures.png -->
### Capital N Left Hook default changed to lowercase style
The default form for capital N with left hook has been changed to the lowercase style to match the capital Eng. The related feature (`cv44`) has been changed to substitute the uppercase style form. See the [Feature list](features.md).
### Additional character support including Unicode 16
Support has been added for 29 additional characters, some of which were introduced in Unicode 16. For a full list see [Version History](history.md).
## Consistent autohinting
Autohinting has been improved to be more consistent across the whole family.
![Charis autohinting](../assets/images/v7autohinting.png){.fullsize}
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<figcaption>Upright and italic faces appear more consistent in height in smaller sizes (Windows 11, Word, 9 pt, 150%, enlarged)</figcaption>
## General improvements
Other improvements have been made to over 150 glyphs, OpenType code, and other font aspects, including:
- Letters with upper-right hooks have been redesigned to improve spacing (including kerning) and reduce collisions. Some collisions have been retained to reduce unwanted whitespace within words (e.g. ƴk).
- Central European carons have improved designs and kerning.
- Bridging diacritics handle many more possible combinations. See [Using Bridging Diacritics](https://software.sil.org/fonts/bridging-diacritics/) for details on how these need to be encoded and ordered.
- The small caps feature now affects parentheses and brackets.
For more details see [Version History](history.md).
If you have any difficulty with these changes, or have other suggestions on how we can make the fonts better, please [contact us](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/).

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title: Charis - Versions and Changes
fontversion: 7.000
---
## Announcement list
If you would like stay informed of updates to Charis and other SIL fonts, please subscribe to the [SIL Font News Announcement List](https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sil.org/forum/#!forum/sil-font-news). For more information see [About](about.md).
Our font announcements are also available through X (formerly Twitter) [\@silfonts](https://x.com/silfonts).
## Current versions
The latest version of the fonts is always available from the [Charis download page](https://software.sil.org/charis/download/) as a .zip archive for all major platforms.
Charis is also available through the [TypeTuner Web](https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi) service, which allows you to choose among the smart font features and download a font with those features preset. This enables them to work in many applications that do not fully support OpenType. **Please note that the version 7 fonts available through TypeTuner Web no longer offer line spacing alternatives (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the version 6.200 fonts remain available and support line spacing alternatives.**
## Other Charis SIL versions and variants
There are many font families based on the Charis SIL design, as summarized in this table. Current versions are in **bold**. Additional information is provided in later sections.
Font Family | Versions | Status and use
----------- | -------- | ---------------------
**Charis**|**7.000**|**Current**—recommended for all uses and users
Charis SIL|4.0006.200|No longer recommended—please use current version
Charis SIL Compact|4.1066.200|Fonts with reduced default line spacing—no longer recommended
Charis SIL Literacy|4.0146.200|Literacy variants with alternate a and g forms—no longer recommended
Charis SIL Literacy Comp|4.1066.200|Compact literacy variants—no longer recommended
Charis SIL Literacy AmArea|5.0006.200|Literacy variants with AmArea features—no longer recommended
Charis SIL *special variant*|5.0006.200|Modified versions for special purposes (AmArea, Mali, Tat)—no longer recommended
Charis SIL *region subset*|5.000|Subsets for particular regions (Afr, Am, APac, Cyr, CyrE, Eur, Phon, Viet)—no longer recommended
Versions prior to Charis SIL v4.000 were named SIL Charis and are no longer available.
There are also font families named Charis *something* that were created using [TypeTuner Web](https://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi). We have no record or archive of most of these tuned fonts, but if you are desperate to find them contact us. We may be able to point you to the distributors of those that we know about.
### *Compact* versions
The Charis version 7 fonts do not have *Compact* variants. The default line spacing has been reduced to be closer, but not identical, to the previous versions *Compact* line spacing. Most users should use the version 7 fonts and adjust line spacing explicitly within the application if necessary. If your application does not allow control over line spacing, you can use the [version 6.200 Charis SIL Compact fonts](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/), which remain available. **If you need any of the new version 7 features or characters, but also need them supported in a compact version please [contact us](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/).**
### Special-purpose modified variants
[Modified versions of the Charis SIL version 6.200 fonts](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/) are available that have been tuned to turn on certain features by default. These are available for some regions and include *Literacy* versions. **These remain at version 6.200 and have not been updated to Charis version 7. If you need any of the new features or characters in this version, but also need them supported in the special-purpose modified fonts please [contact us](https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/).**
### Version 5 subsets
In the past, special *subset* versions of Charis SIL version 5 were created for specific uses. Those fonts still work and [remain available](https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/font-subsets/). These are limited versions of the fonts that support only the characters needed for a particular area or use. Subsets are available for Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe/Eurasia, Vietnam, Phonetic, Cyrillic (Basic) and Cyrillic Extended. With the exception of the Phonetic font, the font subsets are intended for orthographic use only. We have not put anything in the other subsets for phonetic, transliteration, or transcription use. For those purposes, use the Phonetic subset. We do not intend to update these fonts, however they may still work. **We do not, however, recommend their use. In almost all cases the standard fonts are a better choice. Font size is less of a concern than it was years ago, particularly with improved compression technologies such as woff2.**
## Previous versions archive
Previous versions remain available from our [Previous versions archive](https://software.sil.org/charis/download/previous-versions).
## Change history
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<h2 id="support-options">Support options</h2>
<p>As these fonts are distributed at no cost, we are unable to
provide a commercial level of personal technical support. We will,
however, try to resolve problems that are reported to us.</p>
<p>Before requesting technical support, please <strong>carefully
read all the documentation included with the fonts and linked pages
on the web site</strong>. The <a href="resources.html">Resources
page</a> is a good place to begin.</p>
<h2 id="language-software-community">Language Software
Community</h2>
<p>For person-to-person support visit the <a
href="https://community.software.sil.org/c/silfonts">SIL Language
Software Community</a>, where font developers and users can help
each other. These support discussions can also help others in the
future.</p>
<h2 id="reporting-bugs-and-feature-requests">Reporting bugs and
feature requests</h2>
<p>If you have a bug to report or a suggestion for how we could
improve the fonts please create an issue in the <a
href="https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis/issues">Github Charis
project</a> or contact us directly.</p>
<h2 id="contact-form">Contact form</h2>
<p>If the documentation and community fail to answer your question
or need further help using the fonts, please contact us using <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">the form on
the Charis web site</a>.</p>
<footer class="footer">
<p>This guide is from the <a href="https://software.sil.org/charis/" title="" class="active">Charis project</a> version 7 and is copyright © 1997-2025 SIL Global.</p>
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<h1 class="title">Charis - Version 7 Changes</h1>
</header>
<h2 id="new-major-release">New major release</h2>
<p>Charis version 7 is a major release with many new additions,
enhancements, and improvements. This is a summary of the most
notable changes and what you need to know if you have been using
earlier versions. <strong>Please read this carefully to understand
the major changes.</strong> For further details on these changes,
particularly regarding individual characters, see <a
href="history.html">Version History</a>.</p>
<h2 id="family-names-and-structure">Family names and structure</h2>
<h3 id="font-family-names-have-changed">Font family names have
changed</h3>
<p>Since the changes to both line metrics and spacing are so
extensive, we have changed the names of the fonts for version 7.</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Charis SIL</em> is now <em>Charis</em></li>
</ul>
<p>This enables you to keep the old v6.2 fonts installed when you
install the new v7 ones. Projects and documents can then be
gradually changed to use the new v7. <strong>We do recommend that
you start using v7 right away and phase out your use of v6.2 as soon
as possible.</strong></p>
<h3 id="revised-family-groups-with-additional-weights">Revised
family groups with additional weights</h3>
<p>Charis now has additional intermediate weights. Previously
existing weights have not changed. The CSS values for the weights
within each family are in parentheses. Italic faces follow a similar
structure and correspondence.</p>
<p><img src="assets/images/weights.png" class="fullsize"
alt="New v7 weights" />
<!-- PRODUCT SITE IMAGE SRC https://software.sil.org/charis/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/05/weights.png --></p>
<p>The new intermediate weights in this extended, axis-based family
can be confusing for applications that still assume families should
have only four members (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic). This is
the case for Microsoft Word and some older Windows applications. For
details on how to use the intermediate weights in these
applications, see <a
href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/axis-based-fonts/">Using
Axis-Based Font Families</a>.</p>
<h3
id="decreased-default-line-spacing---and-no-compact-versions">Decreased
default line spacing - and no Compact versions</h3>
<p>The default line spacing of Charis has been significantly
decreased. In the past, line spacing had to be extreme to avoid
clipping of tall letters and high diacritics on Windows. This is no
longer a problem, so weve been able to reduce the default line
spacing to be more similar to other common text fonts. <strong>We
continue to recommend that you set line spacing explicitly in your
document styles and preferences, and adjust it as needed for your
particular situation.</strong></p>
<p>The v7 fonts do not have <em>Compact</em> variants. The new
default line spacing is closer to the previous versions
<em>Compact</em> line spacing. If you still need even closer line
spacing, and your application does not allow explicit control over
line spacing, you can continue to use the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">v6.2 Charis SIL
Compact fonts</a>, which remain available. <strong>If you need any
of the new v7 features or characters, but also need them supported
in a compact version please <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">contact
us</a>.</strong></p>
<p>TypeTuner Web no longer offers line spacing alternatives for the
v7 fonts (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants
the v6.2 fonts remain available and support line spacing
alternatives.</p>
<h3
id="special-purpose-modified-variants-have-not-been-updated-to-v7">Special-purpose
modified variants have not been updated to v7</h3>
<p>In previous versions, special-purpose modified font variants were
available that had been pre-tuned to turn on certain features by
default for some regional and <em>Literacy</em> uses. These are not
available for the v7 fonts, however, the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">v6.2
special-purpose fonts are still available</a>. <strong>If you need
any of the new features or characters in this version, but also need
them supported in the special-purpose modified fonts please <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">contact
us</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Note that even in version 7 the literacy forms and other features
can be manually preset with <a
href="https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi">TypeTuner
Web</a>. The only change to this is that the 'pre-tuned' versions
remain at version 6.2.</p>
<h2 id="new-features-and-character-support">New features and
character support</h2>
<h3 id="new-kerning">New kerning</h3>
<p>Kerning has now been added to cover the full range of alphabetic
symbols except for small caps (which will be included in a future
update). To make this practically useful for a wide range of
languages, the letters have been clustered into overly generalized
groups. This enables the kerning to apply to more combinations, but
does not allow for careful fine-tuning. The generalized kerning may
not be ideal in all cases, and may still require manual adjustment,
but it should provide improved spacing compared with previous
versions. It is very possible that we have made some mistakes in
this massive kerning effort, so please <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">contact us</a>
if you encounter any combinations whose spacing has been made worse
than in v6.2.</p>
<p><strong>Warning: Because of the addition of extensive kerning,
line, paragraph, and page lengths may be different from
v6.2.</strong></p>
<p><img src="assets/images/kerning.png" class="fullsize"
alt="New kerning" />
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<h3 id="proportional-oldstyle-figures">Proportional Oldstyle
figures</h3>
<p>Charis now includes support for standard OpenType proportional
oldstyle figures (<code>onum</code>). These only apply to the main
numerals, not fractions, superscripts, or numeral-based symbols.</p>
<p><img src="assets/images/oldstylefigures.png" class="fullsize"
alt="Oldstyle figures" />
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<h3
id="capital-n-left-hook-default-changed-to-lowercase-style">Capital
N Left Hook default changed to lowercase style</h3>
<p>The default form for capital N with left hook has been changed to
the lowercase style to match the capital Eng. The related feature
(<code>cv44</code>) has been changed to substitute the uppercase
style form. See the <a href="features.html">Feature list</a>.</p>
<h3
id="additional-character-support-including-unicode-16">Additional
character support including Unicode 16</h3>
<p>Support has been added for 29 additional characters, some of
which were introduced in Unicode 16. For a full list see <a
href="history.html">Version History</a>.</p>
<h2 id="consistent-autohinting">Consistent autohinting</h2>
<p>Autohinting has been improved to be more consistent across the
whole family.</p>
<img src="assets/images/v7autohinting.png" class="fullsize"
alt="Charis autohinting" />
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<figcaption>
Upright and italic faces appear more consistent in height in smaller
sizes (Windows 11, Word, 9 pt, 150%, enlarged)
</figcaption>
<h2 id="general-improvements">General improvements</h2>
<p>Other improvements have been made to over 150 glyphs, OpenType
code, and other font aspects, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Letters with upper-right hooks have been redesigned to improve
spacing (including kerning) and reduce collisions. Some collisions
have been retained to reduce unwanted whitespace within words (e.g.
ƴk).</li>
<li>Central European carons have improved designs and kerning.</li>
<li>Bridging diacritics handle many more possible combinations. See
<a href="https://software.sil.org/fonts/bridging-diacritics/">Using
Bridging Diacritics</a> for details on how these need to be encoded
and ordered.</li>
<li>The small caps feature now affects parentheses and
brackets.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more details see <a href="history.html">Version
History</a>.</p>
<p>If you have any difficulty with these changes, or have other
suggestions on how we can make the fonts better, please <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">contact
us</a>.</p>
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<h1 class="title">Charis - Versions and Changes</h1>
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<h2 id="announcement-list">Announcement list</h2>
<p>If you would like stay informed of updates to Charis and other
SIL fonts, please subscribe to the <a
href="https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sil.org/forum/#!forum/sil-font-news">SIL
Font News Announcement List</a>. For more information see <a
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<p>Our font announcements are also available through X (formerly
Twitter) <a href="https://x.com/silfonts">@silfonts</a>.</p>
<h2 id="current-versions">Current versions</h2>
<p>The latest version of the fonts is always available from the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/download/">Charis download
page</a> as a .zip archive for all major platforms.</p>
<p>Charis is also available through the <a
href="https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi">TypeTuner
Web</a> service, which allows you to choose among the smart font
features and download a font with those features preset. This
enables them to work in many applications that do not fully support
OpenType. <strong>Please note that the version 7 fonts available
through TypeTuner Web no longer offer line spacing alternatives
(Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the
version 6.200 fonts remain available and support line spacing
alternatives.</strong></p>
<h2 id="other-charis-sil-versions-and-variants">Other Charis SIL
versions and variants</h2>
<p>There are many font families based on the Charis SIL design, as
summarized in this table. Current versions are in
<strong>bold</strong>. Additional information is provided in later
sections.</p>
<table>
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 27%" />
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</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Font Family</th>
<th>Versions</th>
<th>Status and use</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>Charis</strong></td>
<td><strong>7.000</strong></td>
<td><strong>Current</strong>—recommended for all uses and users</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charis SIL</td>
<td>4.0006.200</td>
<td>No longer recommended—please use current version</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charis SIL Compact</td>
<td>4.1066.200</td>
<td>Fonts with reduced default line spacing—no longer
recommended</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charis SIL Literacy</td>
<td>4.0146.200</td>
<td>Literacy variants with alternate a and g forms—no longer
recommended</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charis SIL Literacy Comp</td>
<td>4.1066.200</td>
<td>Compact literacy variants—no longer recommended</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charis SIL Literacy AmArea</td>
<td>5.0006.200</td>
<td>Literacy variants with AmArea features—no longer
recommended</td>
</tr>
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<td>Charis SIL <em>special variant</em></td>
<td>5.0006.200</td>
<td>Modified versions for special purposes (AmArea, Mali, Tat)—no
longer recommended</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Charis SIL <em>region subset</em></td>
<td>5.000</td>
<td>Subsets for particular regions (Afr, Am, APac, Cyr, CyrE, Eur,
Phon, Viet)—no longer recommended</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Versions prior to Charis SIL v4.000 were named SIL Charis and are
no longer available.</p>
<p>There are also font families named Charis <em>something</em>
that were created using <a
href="https://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi">TypeTuner Web</a>.
We have no record or archive of most of these tuned fonts, but if
you are desperate to find them contact us. We may be able to point
you to the distributors of those that we know about.</p>
<h3 id="compact-versions"><em>Compact</em> versions</h3>
<p>The Charis version 7 fonts do not have <em>Compact</em> variants.
The default line spacing has been reduced to be closer, but not
identical, to the previous versions <em>Compact</em> line spacing.
Most users should use the version 7 fonts and adjust line spacing
explicitly within the application if necessary. If your application
does not allow control over line spacing, you can use the <a
href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">version 6.200
Charis SIL Compact fonts</a>, which remain available. <strong>If you
need any of the new version 7 features or characters, but also need
them supported in a compact version please <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">contact
us</a>.</strong></p>
<h3 id="special-purpose-modified-variants">Special-purpose modified
variants</h3>
<p><a href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">Modified
versions of the Charis SIL version 6.200 fonts</a> are available
that have been tuned to turn on certain features by default. These
are available for some regions and include <em>Literacy</em>
versions. <strong>These remain at version 6.200 and have not been
updated to Charis version 7. If you need any of the new features or
characters in this version, but also need them supported in the
special-purpose modified fonts please <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">contact
us</a>.</strong></p>
<h3 id="version-5-subsets">Version 5 subsets</h3>
<p>In the past, special <em>subset</em> versions of Charis SIL
version 5 were created for specific uses. Those fonts still work and
<a href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/font-subsets/">remain
available</a>. These are limited versions of the fonts that support
only the characters needed for a particular area or use. Subsets are
available for Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe/Eurasia,
Vietnam, Phonetic, Cyrillic (Basic) and Cyrillic Extended. With the
exception of the Phonetic font, the font subsets are intended for
orthographic use only. We have not put anything in the other subsets
for phonetic, transliteration, or transcription use. For those
purposes, use the Phonetic subset. We do not intend to update these
fonts, however they may still work. <strong>We do not, however,
recommend their use. In almost all cases the standard fonts are a
better choice. Font size is less of a concern than it was years ago,
particularly with improved compression technologies such as
woff2.</strong></p>
<h2 id="previous-versions-archive">Previous versions archive</h2>
<p>Previous versions remain available from our <a
href="https://software.sil.org/charis/download/previous-versions">Previous
versions archive</a>.</p>
<h2 id="change-history">Change history</h2>
<p>A detailed list of changes for each version of the fonts is on
the <a href="history.html">Version history page</a>.</p>
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