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June 2025
Charis Release 7.000
Release 7.000 – Major release with big changes Charis 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 2023
Charis SIL Release 6.200
Release 6.200 – New features and additional character support This release is focused on adding features and 240+ glyphs, including support for over 180 additional characters mostly from Unicode… read more
February 2022
Charis SIL 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
We’re excited to announce the long-awaited version 6 release of Charis SIL. This release is full of new features and important improvements. Note that this is a major upgrade. This may cause document … 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
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
June 2013
Release v4.114 (maintenance release)
This maintenance release of Charis SIL doubles the speed of rendering lower ASCII text in Graphite. Thus, when Mozilla Firefox/Gecko (version 24+) or a future version of LibreOffice is used, then this… read more
August 2012
Release v4.112 (maintenance release)
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 v4.110 (official release)
The only change in this official release is: Removed the VDMX table (to resolve issues related to line-spacing and clipping) Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v4.11… read more
August 2011
Release v4.108 (official release)
List of changes for this version: Encoding changes: Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.2 and 6.0 U+0526 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHHA WITH DESCENDER U+0527 CYRILLIC SMA… read more
May 2009
Release v4.106 (official release)
List of changes for this version: Design changes: Adjusted attachment points on: U+04FA U+04FB U+1D68 U+1D69 U+1D6A fi and fl ligatures Lowered U+00A1 INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK and U+00BF INVERTED QUE… read more
May 2008
Release v4.104 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.1! In this font, the 17 of our PUA characters that were added to Unicode 5.1 are accessible by both the PUA and Unicode codepoints. This is the only change in this rele… read more
Release v4.102 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.0! This font fixes a bug which was in version 4.100: In InDesign and XeTeX (and probably any other application which uses true small caps) the OpenType small cap featur… read more
January 2007
Release v4.100 (official release)
This version supports Unicode 5.0! This official release includes the following changes: New features: Open o alternate (affects: U+1D97 , U+1D53 , U+1D10 , U+0186 , U+0254 ) Chinantec tones (affects:… read more
January 2006
Release v4.0.02 (official release)
This official release includes the following changes: Released under SIL Open Font License (OFL) license Fixed attachment points: U+0414 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE U+04… read more
December 2005
Release v4.0.02.b2 (public beta)
Beta Release Note: This is not the official release of this font although it has been tested internally and is highly functional. This is a public beta release. Please do not redistribute this public … read more
October 2005
Release v4.0.02.b1 (public beta)
Beta Release Note: This is not the official release of this font although it has been tested internally and is highly functional. This is a public beta release. Please do not redistribute this public … read more
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