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<h1 class="title">Charis - Versions and Changes</h1>
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<h2 id="announcement-list">Announcement list</h2>
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<p>If you would like stay informed of updates to Charis and other
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SIL fonts, please subscribe to the <a
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href="https://groups.google.com/a/groups.sil.org/forum/#!forum/sil-font-news">SIL
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Font News Announcement List</a>. For more information see <a
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href="about.html">About</a>.</p>
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<p>Our font announcements are also available through X (formerly
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Twitter) <a href="https://x.com/silfonts">@silfonts</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="current-versions">Current versions</h2>
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<p>The latest version of the fonts is always available from the <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/charis/download/">Charis download
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page</a> as a .zip archive for all major platforms.</p>
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<p>Charis is also available through the <a
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href="https://typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi">TypeTuner
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Web</a> service, which allows you to choose among the smart font
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features and download a font with those features preset. This
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enables them to work in many applications that do not fully support
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OpenType. <strong>Please note that the version 7 fonts available
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through TypeTuner Web no longer offer line spacing alternatives
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(Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the
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version 6.200 fonts remain available and support line spacing
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alternatives.</strong></p>
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<h2 id="other-charis-sil-versions-and-variants">Other Charis SIL
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versions and variants</h2>
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<p>There are many font families based on the Charis SIL design, as
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summarized in this table. Current versions are in
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<strong>bold</strong>. Additional information is provided in later
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sections.</p>
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<th>Font Family</th>
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<th>Versions</th>
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<th>Status and use</th>
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<td><strong>Charis</strong></td>
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<td><strong>7.000</strong></td>
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<td><strong>Current</strong>—recommended for all uses and users</td>
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<td>Charis SIL</td>
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<td>4.000–6.200</td>
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<td>No longer recommended—please use current version</td>
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<td>Charis SIL Compact</td>
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<td>4.106–6.200</td>
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<td>Fonts with reduced default line spacing—no longer
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recommended</td>
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<td>Charis SIL Literacy</td>
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<td>4.014–6.200</td>
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<td>Literacy variants with alternate a and g forms—no longer
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recommended</td>
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<td>Charis SIL Literacy Comp</td>
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<td>4.106–6.200</td>
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<td>Compact literacy variants—no longer recommended</td>
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<td>Charis SIL Literacy AmArea</td>
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<td>5.000–6.200</td>
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<td>Literacy variants with AmArea features—no longer
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recommended</td>
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<td>Charis SIL <em>special variant</em></td>
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<td>5.000–6.200</td>
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<td>Modified versions for special purposes (AmArea, Mali, Tat)—no
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longer recommended</td>
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<td>Charis SIL <em>region subset</em></td>
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<td>5.000</td>
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<td>Subsets for particular regions (Afr, Am, APac, Cyr, CyrE, Eur,
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Phon, Viet)—no longer recommended</td>
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<p>Versions prior to Charis SIL v4.000 were named SIL Charis and are
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no longer available.</p>
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<p>There are also font families named ‘Charis <em>something</em>’
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that were created using <a
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href="https://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi">TypeTuner Web</a>.
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We have no record or archive of most of these ‘tuned’ fonts, but if
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you are desperate to find them contact us. We may be able to point
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you to the distributors of those that we know about.</p>
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<h3 id="compact-versions"><em>Compact</em> versions</h3>
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<p>The Charis version 7 fonts do not have <em>Compact</em> variants.
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The default line spacing has been reduced to be closer, but not
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identical, to the previous version’s <em>Compact</em> line spacing.
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Most users should use the version 7 fonts and adjust line spacing
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explicitly within the application if necessary. If your application
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does not allow control over line spacing, you can use the <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">version 6.200
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Charis SIL Compact fonts</a>, which remain available. <strong>If you
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need any of the new version 7 features or characters, but also need
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them supported in a compact version please <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">contact
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us</a>.</strong></p>
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<h3 id="special-purpose-modified-variants">Special-purpose modified
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variants</h3>
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<p><a href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/">Modified
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versions of the Charis SIL version 6.200 fonts</a> are available
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that have been ‘tuned’ to turn on certain features by default. These
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are available for some regions and include <em>Literacy</em>
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versions. <strong>These remain at version 6.200 and have not been
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updated to Charis version 7. If you need any of the new features or
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characters in this version, but also need them supported in the
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special-purpose modified fonts please <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/charis/about/contact/">contact
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us</a>.</strong></p>
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<h3 id="version-5-subsets">Version 5 subsets</h3>
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<p>In the past, special <em>subset</em> versions of Charis SIL
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version 5 were created for specific uses. Those fonts still work and
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<a href="https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/font-subsets/">remain
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available</a>. These are limited versions of the fonts that support
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only the characters needed for a particular area or use. Subsets are
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available for Africa, Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe/Eurasia,
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Vietnam, Phonetic, Cyrillic (Basic) and Cyrillic Extended. With the
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exception of the Phonetic font, the font subsets are intended for
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orthographic use only. We have not put anything in the other subsets
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for phonetic, transliteration, or transcription use. For those
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purposes, use the Phonetic subset. We do not intend to update these
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fonts, however they may still work. <strong>We do not, however,
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recommend their use. In almost all cases the standard fonts are a
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better choice. Font size is less of a concern than it was years ago,
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particularly with improved compression technologies such as
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woff2.</strong></p>
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<h2 id="previous-versions-archive">Previous versions archive</h2>
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<p>Previous versions remain available from our <a
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href="https://software.sil.org/charis/download/previous-versions">Previous
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versions archive</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="change-history">Change history</h2>
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<p>A detailed list of changes for each version of the fonts is on
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the <a href="history.html">Version history page</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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