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June 2025
Andika Release 7.000
Release 7.000 – Major release with big changes Andika version 7 is a major release with many new additions, enhancements, and improvements. This is a summary of the most notable changes and what… read more
February 2025
Andika Six Release 6.210 – A renamed version of Andika 6.200
Andika Six is simply a renamed version of Andika v6.200 with no other changes. Andika version 7 will include metrics changes that could cause lines, paragraphs, and pages to reflow. Because of this we… read more
February 2023
Andika Release 6.200
Release 6.200 – New features and additional character support This release is focused on adding features and 300+ glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode… read more
February 2022
Andika Release 6.101 TypeTuner Web
This is a maintenance release primarily focused on making the v6 fonts available on TypeTuner Web. This enables us to also provide v6 versions of many special-purpose modified fonts, including Literac… read more
July 2021
Release 6.001 Quick Fix
This is a quick fix release with one change especially important to users of some macOS apps, esp. TextEdit, Pages, and Nisus Writer Pro. If you have already installed v6.000 and have encountered prob… read more
June 2021
Release 6.000 – with bold and italic weights!
We’re excited to announce the long-awaited version 6 release of Andika. This release is full of new features and important improvements, including full character support in all styles. The Bold, Itali… read more
December 2018
Andika and the visually impaired
SIL International’s Andika font was designed specifically with new readers in mind, but its features may help the visually impaired in similar ways. The primary goal—to assist new readers Andika is a … read more
January 2017
Release v5.000 Font Subsets
This release includes Regional Font Subsets for Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus and Andika (v5.000). These fonts contain both OpenType and Graphite smart font rendering. This is the first release… read more
November 2016
Known Issues in v5.000
U+0327 COMBINING CEDILLA and U+0328 COMBINING OGONEK do not consistently position properly under some characters (such an U+014A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG) in Graphite, but they do in OpenType. This sh… read more
December 2015
Andika New Basic 5.500
Andika New Basic is a limited-character-set (no extended IPA or Cyrillic) version of Andika that includes regular, bold, italic and bold-italic faces. Andika New Basic gives a preview of what a whole … read more
November 2015
Release 5.000
This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support of previously Graphite-only features Added Character Variants to the font for OpenTy… read more
June 2015
New SIL Font News announcements list
If you wish to receive announcements about updates to any of our SIL fonts, please subscribe to our SIL Font News Google Group. This is not a discussion list, it is purely a place for SIL to give news… read more
August 2012
Release 1.004
The only change in this maintenance release is a change in the Graphite feature identifiers from integers to 4-character alphanumeric tags. This was required because although Mozilla Firefox has now i… read more
September 2011
Release 1.002
This is a minor update – Removed the VDMX table (to resolve issues related to line-spacing and clipping) Download the release packages from the Previous Versions Page.… read more
July 2011
Release 1.000
One font from this typeface family is included in this release: Andika Regular Work is ongoing to provide italic, bold and bold-italic weights. Features Andika supports all of the smart font features … read more
May 2008
Andika Basic Release 1.000
As an SIL “Basic” font, Andika Basic has: OpenType and Graphite smart code for diacritic placement A few useful OpenType and Graphite features Support for a few more recent additions to Un… read more
January 2007
Andika Design Review v0.001
We greatly appreciate each person who tested the Andika Design Review fonts and took the time to complete the feedback form — some in great detail! But that was just what we needed to better understan… read more
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