Version History

04 June 2026 (SIL WSTech team) Annapurna SIL version 3.000

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. Note: 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

11 June 2024 (SIL WSTech team) Annapurna SIL version 2.100

Enabled rendering for a unique sequence (an implosive) in the Wambule language
- Consists of a DDA, BA or LA half-form (using ZWJ) plus a full vowel A
- The sequence may include a vowel sign or virama (halant)
- Inspect the GSUB OpenType code for details since this is not usual behaviour
Added TypeTuner support for Ra+Ukar+Nukta ligature (feature in Stylistic Set 16)
Fixed CHA variant bug (feature in Stylistic Set 17)
Fixed ikar + vowel reordering bug (Graphite only)

08 November 2023 (SIL WSTech team) Annapurna SIL version 2.000

Note that this is a major upgrade that may cause document reflow as
some glyphs widths have changed and linespacing has been adjusted.

First release that uses a UFO-based design and production workflow
- All sources are in open formats
- Build toolkit and workflow is completely open-source
- See https://writingsystems.info/topics/fonts/building-and-modifying-sil-fonts/#introduction
Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats
Added Devanagari characters
- U+A8FC DEVANAGARI SIGN SIDDHAM
- U+A8FD DEVANAGARI JAIN OM
- U+A8FE DEVANAGARI LETTER AY
- U+A8FF DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AY
Added recommended characters (Latin, punctuation, other) for non-Latin fonts
- U+02C7 caron
- U+02D8 breve
- U+02D9 dotaccent
- U+02DA ring
- U+02DB ogonek
- U+02DD hungarumlaut
- U+0306 brevecomb
- U+034F graphemejoinercomb
- U+03C0 pi
- U+2000 enquad
- U+2001 emquad
- U+2002 enspace
- U+2003 emspace
- U+2004 threeperemspace
- U+2005 fourperemspace
- U+2006 sixperemspace
- U+2007 figurespace
- U+2008 punctuationspace
- U+200A hairspace
- U+2010 hyphentwo
- U+2011 nonbreakinghyphen
- U+2012 figuredash
- U+2015 horizontalbar
- U+2027 hyphenationpoint
- U+2028 lineseparator
- U+2029 paragraphseparator
- U+2060 wordjoiner
- U+2126 Omega, Ohm
- U+2202 partialdiff
- U+2206 Delta
- U+220F product
- U+2211 summation
- U+2215 divisionslash
- U+2219 bulletoperator
- U+221A radical
- U+221E infinity
- U+222B integral
- U+2248 approxequal
- U+2260 notequal
- U+2264 lessequal
- U+2265 greaterequal
- U+2423 blank
- U+25CA lozenge
- U+FB01 fi
- U+FB02 fl
- U+FE00 VS1
- U+FE01 VS2
- U+FE02 VS3
- U+FE03 VS4
- U+FE04 VS5
- U+FE05 VS6
- U+FE06 VS7
- U+FE07 VS8
- U+FE08 VS9
- U+FE09 VS10
- U+FE0A VS11
- U+FE0B VS12
- U+FE0C VS13
- U+FE0D VS14
- U+FE0E VS15
- U+FE0F VS16
- U+FEFF zeroWidthNoBreakSpace
- U+FFFC objectReplacementCharacter
- U+FFFD replacementCharacter
Added variant glyphs
- DEVANAGARI CHA variants
  - Full Cha with tail
  - Half Cha with no stem or halant
- DEVANAGARI HEADSTROKE variants
  - Discrete (to show the number of missing characters)
  - Narrow (for use in typography)
  - Filler (zero advance width for use in typography)
- DEVANAGARI JAIN OM variant (extended headstroke)
Added Stylistic Set features
- ss16 uses ligature forms for ra + ukar (or uukar) with nukta
- ss17 for full Cha with tail, half Cha with no stem or halant
Added Character Variant features
- cv21 for headstroke variants discrete, narrow and filler
- ss22 for Jain Om variants with extended headstroke
- Graphite only: added features cv01-cv17 to correspond to OpenType ss01-ss17
Width of typographic spaces have been made more consistent to reflect
common publishing industry usage. Note that this may affect line and page
lengths. Affected spaces are
- U+2003 EN SPACE
- U+2004 THREE-PER-EM SPACE
- U+2005 FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
- U+2006 SIX-PER-EM SPACE
- U+2009 THIN SPACE
- U+200A HAIR SPACE
- U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
Fixed OpenType rendering of double Nga stack with open-Ya to match Graphite
Fixed OpenType rendering of nukta forms of stemless characters with open-Ya
to match Graphite
Added Graphite rules to reorder ikar before full vowel and possible cons
or half-cons
Fixed Ra+ukar collision with preceding ukar
Fixed ikar-anusvara collision on conjuncts
Fixed misoriented contours and duplicated knots
Added UFO key and value data to set head table flag bits 0 and 1
Revised content and format of the documentation

22 February 2019 (SIL WSTech team) Annapurna SIL version 1.204

Reworked Graphite code to remove duplicates from substitution input classes.
Fixed Graphite bug involving alternate renderings of the half forms of ya.
Fixed default rendering of dya.

08 December 2017 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.203

Matched OpenType with Graphite rendering where “ra halant ra halant” renders
as “reph over ra-halant” instead of “eyelash ra” with reph over following cons.
Fixed Graphite bugs in reph position chaining rules
Fixed Graphite bug involving ta+ta conjunct half-form

10 February 2017 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.202

Fixed Graphite where reph was skipping the aakar after the ya
Used TTFautohint for hinting which solved disappearing candrabindu in Bold

01 August 2016 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.201

Fixed Graphite (reordering) issue when reph and ikar are in a cluster
Fixed Graphite issue related to TypeTuner fonts

15 January 2015 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.200

Added glyph U+0978 from the Devanagari block
Added half forms of all the consonant-rakar conjuncts
Fixed a near collision between Ha-Nukta and the uukar
Fixed many collisions of ekar/aikar over ra with a preceding upper mark
Hinting was done to enhance the on-screen rendering in Windows and Linux

25 October 2012 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.100

Added glyphs (with OpenType and Graphite support) from the Devanagari block
- 0900, 093A..093B, 094E..094F, 0955..0957, 0973..0977, 0979..097A
Added glyphs from the Devanagari Extended block
- A8E0..A8FB
Added glyphs from the North Indic Number Forms block
- A830..A839
U+dot (and UU+dot) is now attached under the Ra instead of the ligature version
Graphite feature IDs are now all four-character tags per CSS requirements
Minor bug fixes

12 July 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.001

Added ligature glyphs and smart code support for minority languages
- 0930 with 0941 and 093C
- 0931 with 0941
- 0931 with 0941 and 093C
- 0930 with 0942 and 093C
- 0931 with 0942
- 0931 with 0942 and 093C
Fixed design bug in Bold font. The long I with nasal dot had a missing dot
Minor tweaks by adjusting attachment points and hinting parameters
Numerous bug fixes in Graphite

31 Dec 2010 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.000

First version released under the SIL Open Font License