SIL's Non-Roman Script Initiative has created very comprehensive fonts for Latin and Cyrillic character sets. Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, Gentium Plus and Andika are very large fonts that cover just about every need we know about in the Latin and Cyrillic world. Now, as we move into the age of mobile phone and web usage, there is a need for fonts that are small and compact. Our fonts are over a megabyte each and that is considered much too large for mobile phone usage.

Current commercial font subsetting schemes remove the smart font information from a font when subsetting a font. While this may be acceptable for majority languages, we consider this unacceptable as so many languages in the world require smart diacritic positioning above and/or below base characters. We have now created subsets of our fonts for different regions of the world. These fonts currently only contain OpenType smart code (not  Graphite). Each regional font only contains the characters (and glyphs) that are known to be used in that region of the world. We have attempted to use the most common glyph required for that region.

Our font subset packages also contain .woff versions of our fonts. These are especially useful in the context of mobile phone and web usage.

The Extras folder contains files that list the Unicode Scalar Values for each region. It also contains FontLab Studio name table files.

Please see http://scripts.sil.org/FontSubsets for more information.
