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Supporting literacy, development and translation through language and writing system fonts and software

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  1. Jul 21

    Scheherazade New v3.200 adds new Unicode 14 codepoints to the honorifics - that's all!

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  2. Jul 2

    Quick fix (v6.001) to Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus, and Andika to avoid problems with unrecognized fonts when opening older documents:

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  3. Jul 1

    Andika 6 adds bold and italics to the full character set. New literacy features, improved Windows screen rendering, more alternate forms, WOFF2 webfonts, and many small bug fixes. Supports 40+ additional Unicode characters! Free and open for everyone.

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  4. Jul 1

    Gentium Plus 6 adds three new bolder weights (plus italics) to the full character set. Many other improvements too! New features, better Windows screen rendering, WOFF2, and more. Fully free and open project.

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  5. Jun 21

    Padauk 5: improved support for Aiton, Phake, Sgaw Karen, and Thai Mon. Variant selectors for Khamti and Aiton. New character variant and stylistic set features for OpenType and Graphite. Plus better kerning and bug fixes!

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  6. Jun 11

    Abyssinica v2.1 adds support for new Gurage forms in Unicode 14, improved kerning and numerals, and a new combining numerals feature.

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  7. Mar 30

    Scheherazade New v3.100 adds calligraphic honorifics and fixes a few OpenType and Graphite bugs.

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  8. 9 Nov 2020

    Scheherazade New 3.0 is a major upgrade of our Naskh-style font. The size has been increased to be comparable with other common fonts. Includes new characters, improvements to glyphs and OpenType, and additional language support.

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  9. 22 Jun 2020

    A long-awaited update to the Harmattan font family adds nearly complete support for Unicode 13.0 Arabic characters and a new bold weight. Improvements to the Warsh-style font also include support for more language-specific forms.

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  10. 14 Oct 2019

    Shimenkan is a new multi-weight font family for the Miao (Pollard) script with eight language-specific variants. The vowel positioning is fiendishly complex and different for each language. No fancy web site yet, but the fonts are freely available from .

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  11. 8 Oct 2019

    Mingzat is a newly-released font for the Lepcha script of South Asia. It's an example of an existing font that we've re-encoded to Unicode and adapted for the latest technology. ()

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  12. 12 Sep 2019

    መልካም አዲስ ዓመት! To celebrate the Ethiopian New Year we've released Abyssinica v2, with additional glyphs, design improvements, and support for Sebat Bet Gurage and Gumuz variants. Traditional style, complete language coverage, open and free!

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  13. 10 Sep 2019

    Padauk 4 improves support for more languages that use the Myanmar script including Khamti, Sgaw Karen, Tai Liang, and Asho Chin. It adds more characters useful for typesetting. The OpenType code is also improved and a lot faster! ()

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  14. 27 Jun 2019

    Awami Nastaliq 2.0 adds support for additional languages and new characters. Other improvements include an enhanced collision avoidance system and many adjustments to glyph shapes and positions. ()

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  15. 30 Apr 2019

    We've updated our SIL Font Development Notes to give details of how to use FontForge - the free/libre font design tool - to modify our fonts.

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  16. 12 Apr 2019

    Want to build, modify, and redistribute our font projects? Here's a new guide to get you set up with our free/libre tools and workflow. You can also use the workflow for your own projects!

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  17. 27 Feb 2019

    Annapurna SIL is a Devanagari script font that supports a wide range of languages. Version 1.204 fixes a few small rendering bugs. ()

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  18. 27 Jul 2018

    Alkalami is a font for a unique West African style of the Arabic script. Version 1.100 improves the design of qaf-based forms. ()

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  19. 25 Apr 2018

    Awami Nastaliq release 1.101 fixes bug in positioning of final reh in some contexts. ()

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  20. 4 Apr 2018

    Awami Nastaliq updated with support for over 30 new characters and additional languages. Many shape improvements and connection adjustments too! ()

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