Package fonts-ttf-charis: Information

Welcome to the Charis SIL font package. Charis is similar 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, bold italic - and so is more useful in general publishing
than Doulos SIL. Charis is a serif, proportionally-spaced font optimized
for readability in long printed documents.

The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font
family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed
for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used
for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for
other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes 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.