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Description: smart Unicode font family for Roman or Cyrillic-based writing systems
The goal for Charis SIL 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. In addition, there is provision for other characters
and symbols useful to linguists.
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The Charis SIL font contains near-complete coverage of all the characters
defined in Unicode 5.1 for Latin and Cyrillic. In total, over 2,200 glyphs
are included, providing support for over 1,500 graphic or control
characters as well as a large number of ligated character sequences (e.g.,
contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).
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Four fonts from this typeface family are included in this release:
* Charis SIL Regular
* Charis SIL Bold
* Charis SIL Italic
* Charis SIL Bold Italic
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Charis SIL is a TrueType font with "smart font" capabilities added using
the Graphite, OpenType(r), and AAT font technologies. This means that
complex typographic issues such as the placement of multiple diacritics or
the formation of ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are
running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one
of these smart font technologies.
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Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
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The full font sources are publicly available at
https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis
An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
Description: Font family for wide range of languages that use the Latin and Cyrillic scripts
Charis is similar to Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed
specifically for laser printers. It is highly readable and holds up well in
less-than-ideal reproduction environments. It also has a full set of styles
- regular, italic, bold, bold italic - and so is more useful in general
publishing than Doulos SIL. Charis is a serif proportionally spaced font
optimized for readability in long printed documents.
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The goal for this product was 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. In addition, there is provision for other characters and
symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font
technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need to
position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.
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Four fonts from this typeface family are included in this release:
* Charis SIL Regular
* Charis SIL Bold
* Charis SIL Italic
* Charis SIL Bold Italic
.
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
.
The full font sources are publicly available at
https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis
An open workflow is used for building, testing and releasing.
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-smart Unicode font family for Roman or Cyrillic-based writing systems
- The goal for Charis SIL 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. In addition, there is provision for other characters
- and symbols useful to linguists.
+Font family for wide range of languages that use the Latin and Cyrillic scripts
+ Charis is similar to Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed
+ specifically for laser printers. It is highly readable and holds up well in
+ less-than-ideal reproduction environments. It also has a full set of styles
+ - regular, italic, bold, bold italic - and so is more useful in general
+ publishing than Doulos SIL. Charis is a serif proportionally spaced font
+ optimized for readability in long printed documents.
.
- The Charis SIL font contains near-complete coverage of all the characters
- defined in Unicode 5.1 for Latin and Cyrillic. In total, over 2,200 glyphs
- are included, providing support for over 1,500 graphic or control
- characters as well as a large number of ligated character sequences (e.g.,
- contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).
+ The goal for this product was 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. In addition, there is provision for other characters and
+ symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font
+ technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need to
+ position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.
.
Four fonts from this typeface family are included in this release:
- * Charis SIL Regular
- * Charis SIL Bold
- * Charis SIL Italic
- * Charis SIL Bold Italic
- .
- Charis SIL is a TrueType font with "smart font" capabilities added using
- the Graphite, OpenType(r), and AAT font technologies. This means that
- complex typographic issues such as the placement of multiple diacritics or
- the formation of ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are
- running an application that provides an adequate level of support for one
- of these smart font technologies.
+ * Charis SIL Regular
+ * Charis SIL Bold
+ * Charis SIL Italic
+ * Charis SIL Bold Italic
.
Webfont versions and HTML/CSS examples are also available.
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