This is an excellent free new Unicode phonetic font for both Windows and
Macintosh.
John Wells
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>Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:14:28 -0600
>SIL International is pleased to announce the official release of the Charis
>SIL Unicode fonts (http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont). Charis SIL
>provides a single Unicode-based font family that contains near-complete
>coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode 4.1 for Latin and
>Cyrillic-based writing systems, whether used for phonetic or orthographic
>needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols
>useful to linguists. These fonts make 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.
>
>Charis SIL is a serif, proportionally-spaced font optimized for readability
>in long printed documents, and is similar in design 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, and
>bold italic. It has been released under SIL's Open Font License (
>http://scripts.sil.org/OFL):
>
> The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
> development of cooperative font projects, to support the font creation
> efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide an open
> framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with
> others.
>
> The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
> redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
> fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,
> redistributed and sold with any software provided that the font names of
> derivative works are changed. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot
> be released under any other type of license.
>
>At the same time, SIL has also released an update of the Doulos SIL font
>(See http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfont) to match the character set
>represented in Charis SIL.
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