This is the README for the charissil package, version 5.0, release 2020-07-22. This package provides the CharisSIL family of TrueType fonts adapted by SIL International from Bitstream Charter. Because of licensing restrictions, type1 versions are not available and documents must be processed using xelatex or lualatex. 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). 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. The only figure style is tabular-lining. 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 support files are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca).