smart Unicode font for Latin and Cyrillic scripts

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Charis is similar to Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed
specifically for laser printers. It is highly readable and holds up
well in less-than-ideal reproduction environments. It also has a full
set of styles - regular, italic, bold, bold italic - and so is more
useful in general publishing than Doulos SIL. Charis is a serif,
proportionally-spaced font optimized for readability in long printed
documents.

The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font
family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed
for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used
for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for
other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use
of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic
issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base
glyphs and diacritics optimally.

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CharisSIL-6.200.zip 0004980132 4.75 MB
sil-charis-fonts.changes 0000007584 7.41 KB
sil-charis-fonts.spec 0000002495 2.44 KB
Latest Revision
buildservice-autocommit accepted request 1063074 from Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai (tiwai) (revision 20)
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Comments 2

Stefan Knorr's avatar

Version 6.001 has issues under xmlgraphics-fop (both version 2.1 and 2.6). SUSE PDF documentation (currently) needs Charis for PDF builds. We don't mind much if the font is available in M17N & Factory but if it enters any Leap default channels, a heads-up would be great. Thanks!


Jan Engelhardt's avatar

Can't give you a headsup because the Leap project pulls them from Factory at their own pace. "issues" is also very unspecific. And you should use bugzilla.

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