Specimen
Handgloves
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
2 weights · italic · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Charis SIL
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.718
stroke weight
16% of cap height
0.156
contrast
High
0.560
letter width
Normal
0.954
Web embed
Use Charis SIL on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Charis+SIL:wght@400;700;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Charis SIL */
body {
font-family: 'Charis SIL', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Pairing
What goes with Charis SIL
A curated sans-serif companion that balances the tone of Charis SIL.
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Details
- Family
- Charis SIL
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- SIL International
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 12, 2022
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Charis SIL font
Charis SIL is a serif typeface designed by SIL International, first released to Google Fonts on May 2022. It ships with 2 weights · italic and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 72% of the cap height, normal letter forms and high stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Charis SIL against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Charis SIL is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.