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Charis SIL v5.960 beta2

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@jvgaultney jvgaultney released this 17 Mar 08:52
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This is a beta version of the next major release.
Please use it only for testing, not production, and give us your feedback.
We have tried to address all reported issues from beta1 in this beta, however some fixes may still be in process.

This major release includes spacing changes to some glyphs, so text in existing documents may reflow. However, the spacing changes are mostly for rare glyphs that most users are not likely to use. If you see significant differences in layout between version 5.000 and this version of the fonts please let us know.

Please send any feedback to fonts@sil.org - Thank you!

Changes since version 5.950 (beta1):

  • Removed DSIGs added in version 5.000. These have now been removed to reflect current best practice font development guidance. Adobe InDesign will complain that fonts cannot be found if a document last saved with version 5.000 is opened with version 5.960 or later installed. It will be necessary to find/replace the fonts in the document using the command in the Type menu. Please also look over the document carefully to note any places where changes in the fonts have affected letterforms or spacing.
  • Graphite has been removed. Application and OS support for OpenType has greatly improved, so the need for Graphite in this font family is greatly reduced. If this affects you, and you find that OpenType does not provide sufficient support for your needs, please contact us right away.
  • Width of typographic spaces have been made more consistent to reflect common publishing industry usage. Note that this may affect line and page lengths. Affected spaces:
    • U+2000 EN QUAD (made width consistent)
    • U+2001 EM QUAD (made width consistent)
    • U+2007 FIGURE SPACE (made wider to match numerals in all styles)
    • U+2009 THIN SPACE (made narrower)
    • U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (made narrower)
  • Fixed some small capital correspondences
  • Improved miscellaneous anchor positions, including the position of diacritics below glyphs with macrons below (e.g. U+1E0F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH LINE BELOW)
  • Fixes and improvements to various glyphs:
    • U+02E4 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL REVERSED GLOTTAL STOP (form)
    • U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW (position fixes since beta 1)
    • U+1D15 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OU (form)
    • U+1D77 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED G (position)
    • U+1D78 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN (form)
    • U+A76A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ET
    • U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET
    • U+A76C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IS
    • U+A76D LATIN SMALL LETTER IS
    • U+A77F LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G (position)
    • U+A7F8 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL H WITH STROKE (form)
  • Applied new hinting techniques to try to improve screen rendering on Windows
  • Replaced font features documentation with updated version in a new format (see documentation/CharisSIL-font-features.html)
  • Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats

Remaining known issues in this release

  • Tone letters (U+02E5..02E9) and related features are not working properly
  • There is no support for TypeTuner
  • There are no regional subsets