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June 2025
Gentium Release 7.000
Release 7.000 – Major release with big changes Gentium version 7 is a major release with many new additions, enhancements, and improvements. This is a summary of the most notable changes and wha… read more
February 2023
Gentium Plus 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
Gentium Plus 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 a range of bold and italic weights!
We’re excited to announce the long-awaited version 6 release of Gentium Plus. This release is full of new features and important improvements, including full character support in all styles. The Bold,… 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
Gentium Basic 1.102
Although the Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic fonts are older than the Gentium Plus font, and have a much smaller character repertoire, they have some wonderful features that are still missing fro… 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 v1.510 (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 v1.508 (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 v1.50… read more
August 2011
Release v1.506
Changes in this release: Double-encoded the SIL PUA characters which were added to Unicode 5.2 and 6.0 (using ttfremap) Corrected problem with coverage tables (using ttfsortcover) Changed version numb… read more
June 2011
Gentium v1.03
Changes in this release: Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License version 1.1 Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v1.03 of the release packages from the Previou… read more
November 2010
Release v1.504
Changes in this release: Added codepage bits for 1251 (Cyrillic), 1257 (Windows Baltic), 1258 (Vietnamese) Download the newest release packages from the Download Page. Download v1.504 of the release p… read more
April 2008
Gentium Basic v1.100
Basic Font Information Gentium (“belonging to the nations” in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin scrip… read more
November 2005
Gentium v1.02
Changes in this release: Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License Included FontLab source files Fixed some duplicate PostScript glyph names Fixed italic angle Download the newest release package… read more
November 2003
Gentium: Providing Type to the World
Interview with Victor Gaultney, creator of Gentium Reprinted by permission from The LISA Newsletter: Globalization Insider XII/4.3. Copyright the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) and… read more
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