We are happy to announce the release of Annapurna SIL version 3.000. This release has additional weights, new Devanagari characters and a variant glyph. Graphite has been removed in this version.

  • There are additional intermediate weights. Previously existing weights have not changed. Here is a list, with retained weights in bold and new weights in italic. The CSS values for the weights within each family are in parentheses.
    • Annapurna SIL Regular (400)
    • Annapurna SIL Medium (500)
    • Annapurna SIL SemiBold (600)
    • Annapurna SIL Bold (700)
  • Added Devanagari characters from the Devanagari Extended-A block:
    • U+11B00 DEVANAGARI HEAD MARK
    • U+11B01 DEVANAGARI HEAD MARK WITH HEADSTROKE
    • U+11B02 DEVANAGARI SIGN BHALE
    • U+11B03 DEVANAGARI SIGN BHALE WITH HOOK
    • U+11B04 DEVANAGARI SIGN EXTENDED BHALE
    • U+11B05 DEVANAGARI SIGN EXTENDED BHALE WITH HOOK
    • U+11B06 DEVANAGARI SIGN WESTERN FIVE-LIKE BHALE
    • U+11B07 DEVANAGARI DEVANAGARI SIGN WESTERN NINE-LIKE BHALE
    • U+11B08 DEVANAGARI SIGN REVERSED NINE-LIKE BHALE
    • U+11B09 DEVANAGARI SIGN MINDU
  • Added a DEVANAGARI SHA variant (SHA as a loop)
    • To enable, use Stylistic Set 18 (ss18=1)
    • Postscript glyph name is uni0936.alt
  • Graphite has been removed.
    • Application and OS support for OpenType has greatly improved, so the need for Graphite in this font family is greatly reduced.
    • Versions 2.100 and earlier have Graphite.
  • Removed some lowercase characters that have no matching uppercase:
    • U+0101: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON
    • U+0113: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH MACRON
    • U+0129: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH TILDE
    • U+012B: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON
    • U+014B: LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG
    • U+014D: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH MACRON
    • U+0169: LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE
    • U+016B: LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON
    • U+0254: LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O
    • U+0256: LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL
    • U+0259: LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
    • U+025B: LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E
    • U+026A: LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I
    • U+0272: LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK
    • U+0288: LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
    • U+028A: LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON
    • U+028C: LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V
    • U+1EBD: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH TILDE

The home page is https://software.sil.org/annapurna/.