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sil-charis-fonts


Smart Unicode Font for Latin and Cyrillic Scripts


System/X11/Fonts

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 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.


License: OFL-1.1
URL: https://software.sil.org/charis/

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Package Version Update ID Released Package Hub Version Platforms Subpackages
6.200-160000.2.2 info GA Release 2023-02-02 16.0
  • AArch64
  • ppc64le
  • s390x
  • x86-64
  • sil-charis-fonts