This is the README for the charissil package, version 5.0, release 2020-07-19. This package provides the CharisSIL family of fonts adapted by SIL International from Bitstream Charter in both TrueType and Type1 formats, with support for both traditional and modern LaTeX processors. To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system download the file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/charissil.tds.zip where the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirrors.ctan.org. Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree, likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map files by enabling the Map file CharisSIL.map. To use, add \usepackage{CharisSIL} to the preamble of your document. This will activate CharisSIL as the main (serifed) text font. Regular, Italic, Bold and BoldItalic styles are available. Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, TS1, LY1 and T2A/B/C. The only figure style is tabular-lining. If LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users prefer type1 fonts or wish to avoid fontspec they may use the type1 option. Options scaled= or scale= may be used to scale the fonts. The fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. The type1 versions were created using fontforge. The LaTeX support files were created using autoinst and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca).