Release of Annapurna SIL v3.000 (Devanagari script)

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Jun 8, 2026, 4:37:44 PMJun 8

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We are happy to announce the release of Annapurna SIL version 3.000. This release has additional weights, new Devanagari characters and a variant glyph. Graphite has been removed in this version.

There are additional intermediate weights. Previously existing weights have not changed. Here is a list, with retained weights in bold and new weights in italic. The CSS values for the weights within each family are in parentheses.
- Annapurna SIL Regular (400)
- Annapurna SIL Medium (500)
- Annapurna SIL SemiBold (600)
- Annapurna SIL Bold (700)
Added Devanagari characters from the Devanagari Extended-A block:
- U+11B00 DEVANAGARI HEAD MARK
- U+11B01 DEVANAGARI HEAD MARK WITH HEADSTROKE
- U+11B02 DEVANAGARI SIGN BHALE
- U+11B03 DEVANAGARI SIGN BHALE WITH HOOK
- U+11B04 DEVANAGARI SIGN EXTENDED BHALE
- U+11B05 DEVANAGARI SIGN EXTENDED BHALE WITH HOOK
- U+11B06 DEVANAGARI SIGN WESTERN FIVE-LIKE BHALE
- U+11B07 DEVANAGARI DEVANAGARI SIGN WESTERN NINE-LIKE BHALE
- U+11B08 DEVANAGARI SIGN REVERSED NINE-LIKE BHALE
- U+11B09 DEVANAGARI SIGN MINDU
Added a DEVANAGARI SHA variant (SHA as a loop)
- To enable, use Stylistic Set 18 (ss18=1)
- Postscript glyph name is uni0936.alt
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.
- Versions 2.100 and earlier have Graphite.
Removed some lowercase characters that have no matching uppercase:
- U+0101: LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON
- U+0113: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH MACRON
- U+0129: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH TILDE
- U+012B: LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH MACRON
- U+014B: LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG
- U+014D: LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH MACRON
- U+0169: LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE
- U+016B: LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON
- U+0254: LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O
- U+0256: LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL
- U+0259: LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
- U+025B: LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E
- U+026A: LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I
- U+0272: LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK
- U+0288: LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH RETROFLEX HOOK
- U+028A: LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON
- U+028C: LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V
- U+1EBD: LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH TILDE