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Charis SIL is a Unicode-based font family that attempts to provide a
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comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or
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Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic
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needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful
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to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to
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support complex typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary
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combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.
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Charis is similar to Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed
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specifically for laser printers. It is highly readable and holds up well in
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less-than-ideal reproduction environments. It also has a full set of styles
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- regular, italic, bold, bold italic - and so is more useful in general
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publishing than Doulos SIL. Charis is a serif, proportionally-spaced font
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optimized for readability in long printed documents.
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This compact variant has been created with TypeTuner Web, by setting the "Line
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spacing" feature to "Tight", and will not be able to be TypeTuned again.
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WWW: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=CharisSILfont
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