Charis SIL (/ˈkɛərɪs/) is a slab serif typeface developed by SIL International based on Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed for laser printers. The font offers four family members: roman, bold, italic, and bold italic.
Its design goal is to "provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs."[1]
Charis SIL supports Graphite, OpenType, and AAT technologies for advanced rendering features. Along with Doulos SIL and Gentium, it is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL),[2] and can be downloaded free of charge.[3]
Version 6.2 of the font, with over 3,800 glyphs,[4] current as of 2023[update], was released on 1 February 2023.[5]
Gentium Book Plus font with 'a' and 'g' set to primer styleAndika font with two features selected
Variant forms of many characters can be chosen in the word-processor. For example, for primer-style 'a' and 'g', append ss01=1 to the name of the font in the font-selection window.[6] (Features are appended with a colon and linked with an ampersand – see images at left.) Alternatively, customized versions of the fonts can be created with TypeTuner, prior to download, that have those forms preset.[7]
Features that may be chosen include small capitals, primer-style 'a' and 'g', roman-style 'a' and 'g' in italic typeface, variant forms of capital 'Ŋ', large modifier letter apostrophe and Saltillo, Vietnamese-style diacritics, Serbian-style italics (in Cyrillic), staveless tone letters, and automatic fractions.[6]
Phonetician John C. Wells has recommended Charis SIL as an excellent font for displaying IPA symbols.[8]
^"Charis SIL (Home Page)". 2 October 2014.
^"SIL Open Font License (OFL)". scripts.sil.org.
^Download page on sil.org
^"Character Set Support". Charis SIL. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
^"Current Versions". SIL International. 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
^ abCharis: features
^TypeTuner Web homepage
^Wells, John (2012-06-04). "IPA transcription in Unicode". University College London. Archived from the original on 2007-12-02.
CharisSIL (/ˈkɛərɪs/) is a slab serif typeface developed by SIL International based on Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed for laser printers...
for phonetic or orthographic needs." Along with CharisSIL and Gentium, it is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL). This font has a cousin specially...
Font License was designed for use with many of SIL's Unicode fonts, including Gentium Plus, CharisSIL, and Andika. The license was in a "public review"...
Internationalization and Unicode Conference, San Jose, CA. "CharisSIL". SIL: Software & Fonts. SIL International. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2016...
handful of fonts can display the character. These include CharisSIL, Code2000, Comic Sans, Doulos SIL, Ubuntu, and DejaVu fonts. ȹ, its voiceless counterpart...
and MS Office. SIL: International provides CharisSIL and CharisSIL Compact Archived 24 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Doulos SIL, Gentium, Gentium...
imitation of Palatino) Berkeley Old Style Candida Cartier Century Old Style CharisSIL Cholla Slab Clearface Concrete Roman Corona Doves Type Egyptienne Elephant...
Caslon Wyld Caslon Antique / Fifteenth Century Centaur Century type family CharisSIL Cheltenham Clearface Cloister Black Cochin Computer Modern Concrete Roman...
has resulted in open source derivatives of Bitstream Charter, including CharisSIL. Typographer Matthew Butterick considers Bitstream Charter to be one of...
also released under the OFL, are CharisSIL and Doulos SIL. Free software Unicode typefaces OFL information page on sil.org "Gentium Plus: Documentation...
U+1D77. Fonts that can display the character include Code2000, Doulos SIL and CharisSIL. Lowercase "B with hook", an IPA letter that resembles a turned one-story...
East Asian characters present in MARC-8 that have no Unicode encoding. The SIL Corporate PUA uses the PUA to encode characters used in minority languages...
Unicode encoding for the capital form. However, SIL fonts such as Gentium Plus, Doulos SIL and CharisSIL have U+F20D in their private-use areas as the...
problem can often be solved by using a specialist Unicode font such as CharisSIL that uses Graphite, OpenType ('gsub'), or AAT technologies for advanced...
including properly rendering the diacritics, include Gentium Plus, CharisSIL, Doulos SIL, and Andika. In addition to the level of support found in commercial...
support these characters are Junicode, Montagel, and Quivira. Gentium and CharisSIL support the alphabetic letters (U+A77x and U+A78x). According to Michael...
N2628, N2699, and N2770). Font support has followed: for example, in CharisSIL. The prestige variant of Taiwanese Hokkien is the southern speech found...
Enana. Bwe am Ailin̄ im kajur im aibuijuij indrio, Amen. "Marshallese". SIL International. Archived from the original on 2015-04-11. Retrieved 2012-12-05...
Wolf, Katharina. 2010. Une enquête sociolinguistique parmi les Amdang (Mimi) du Tchad: Rapport Technique. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2010-028 v t e...
Études Économiques (CNSEE), Brazzaville. December 2012 "Languages of Congo". SIL International. Archived from the original on 23 September 2008. Retrieved...
Journal 11. 5-70. Harrison, Annette. 2003. Fulfulde language family report. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2003-009. 1-13. République du Tchad (2009). Décret...
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