Doulos SIL Release 7.000

Victor | 3 June 2025

Doulos SIL Release 7.000 – Major release

This release is focused on feature refinements, new character support, and diacritic positioning improvements.

Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download page.

Note that this may be the final major version of Doulos SIL. Please consider switching to one of our other font families.

Fewer alternate font versions

There is no longer a Compact variant. A Compact version of the v6.2 font remains available from https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/
TypeTuner Web no longer offers line spacing alternatives for the v7 font (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the v6.2 font s available and supports line spacing alternatives.
There are no ‘pre-tuned’ regional or Literacy special-purpose modified variants. The v6.2 variants, including a Literacy version, remains available from https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/. You can still manually create v7 variants with TypeTuner Web that include literacy forms and other alternatives.

Feature enhancements

The default form for capital N with left hook has been changed to the lowercase style to match the capital Eng. The related feature (cv44) has been changed to substitute the uppercase style form.
- U+019D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK
Additions to Modifier Apostrophe feature (cv70)
- U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA
- U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA
- U+0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE
- U+0314 COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE
Addition to Rams Horn feature (cv25)
- U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN
Small caps added for these parentheses and brackets
- U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS
- U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS
- U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
- U+005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
- U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET
- U+007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET

New character support

Unicode 16 additions
- U+1C89 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE
- U+1C8A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE
- U+A7CB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RAMS HORN
  - This was previously in the SIL PUA (U+F26E)
- U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
- U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE
- U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA
- U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA
- U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
Orthographic at signs
- U+24B6 CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
- U+24D0 CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A
Additional Cyrillic modifiers
- U+A69C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC HARD SIGN
- U+A69D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN
Case mapping for Coptic eie
- U+2C89 COPTIC SMALL LETTER EIE
Upwards ancora (and revised downwards form)
- U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
- U+2E15 UPWARDS ANCORA
Prosodic symbols
- U+23D1 METRICAL BREVE
- U+23D2 METRICAL LONG OVER SHORT
- U+23D3 METRICAL SHORT OVER LONG
- U+23D4 METRICAL LONG OVER TWO SHORTS
- U+23D5 METRICAL TWO SHORTS OVER LONG
- U+23D6 METRICAL TWO SHORTS JOINED
- U+2E3D VERTICAL SIX DOTS
Doubled brackets and parentheses
- U+27EA MATHEMATICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
- U+27EB MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET
- U+2E28 LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
- U+2E29 RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS
Logical symbols
- U+21AE LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE
- U+22BB XOR
- U+22BC NAND
- U+22BD NOR

Improvements and fixes

Support added for complex positioning of bridging double diacritics and nearby marks. Correct rendering requires a very specific encoding sequence – see https://software.sil.org/fonts/bridging-diacritics/
- U+035C COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW
- U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE
- U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON
- U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW
- U+0360 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE
- U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE
- U+0362 COMBINING DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW
- U+1DCD COMBINING DOUBLE CIRCUMFLEX ABOVE
- U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW
- U+F17A COMBINING DOUBLE DIAERESIS (in SIL PUA)
Fixed position of
- U+1D09 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED I
- U+1D4E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED I
Fixed dotless form of
- U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK
Revised design of
- U+A720 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND HIGH TONE
- U+A721 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND LOW TONE
Improved design of some combining diacritics
- U+032B COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW
- U+033C COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW
- U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE
Revised anchors on many letters to improve diacritic positioning, including these and related letters
- U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
- U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
- U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
- U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F
- U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I
- U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J
- U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
- U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE
Reviewed anchors on spacing acutes and graves
- U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT
- U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT
- U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT
- U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT
- U+02CE MODIFIER LETTER LOW GRAVE ACCENT
- U+02CF MODIFIER LETTER LOW ACUTE ACCENT