Charis SIL Font

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Font Introduction

Charis SIL is a sophisticated slab serif typeface developed by SIL International, meticulously designed to provide comprehensive Unicode support for Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Built upon the foundations of Bitstream Charter, one of the pioneering fonts for laser printers, this professionally crafted font family encompasses four complete styles: roman, bold, italic, and bold italic. With over 3,800 glyphs, Charis SIL excels at displaying International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols and supports advanced rendering features including Graphite, OpenType, and AAT technologies. The font’s design philosophy prioritizes readability and versatility, making it an excellent choice for linguistic and phonetic applications, academic documents, and multilingual publishing projects that demand precise character representation.