How To Install sil-charis-fonts on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-charis-fonts in Fedora 36. sil-charis-fonts is Charis SIL, a font family similar to Bitstream Charter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-charis-fonts on Fedora 36.

What is `sil-charis-fonts`

Charis SIL provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Cyrillic characters. 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.

We can use yum or dnf to install sil-charis-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sil-charis-fonts.

Install sil-charis-fonts on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sil-charis-fonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sil-charis-fonts

Install sil-charis-fonts on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install sil-charis-fonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sil-charis-fonts

How To Uninstall sil-charis-fonts on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the sil-charis-fonts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sil-charis-fonts

sil-charis-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-sil-charis-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/sil-charis-fonts
/usr/share/doc/sil-charis-fonts/FONTLOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-charis-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/sil-charis-fonts/README.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/60-sil-charis-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-charis-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/sil-charis-fonts/CharisSIL-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-charis-fonts/CharisSIL-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-charis-fonts/CharisSIL-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/sil-charis-fonts/CharisSIL-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/licenses/sil-charis-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/sil-charis-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.sil-charis-fonts.metainfo.xml

References

sil-charis-fonts website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sil-charis-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).