Public domain sample text rendered with Chortle

The Chortle font is a font suitable for linguistic use and for writing general documents. In particular, the font has most symbols needed to make a broad IPA transcription of words in English and Spanish. This font is a serif font that is optimized for printing on laser printers.

This font is freely copyable, and is licensed under the Open Font License. This typeface is derived from the Charis SIL typeface, which is, in turn, derived from the free version of Bitstream Charter donated to the X windows system in 1992.

The latest version is version 0.22 (0.23 for the TrueType font, which is identical to 0.22 except all hinting has been removed, since this font actually looks better on the screen without hinting). This font is available as a TrueType font, a PostScript binary font, an X11 bitmap font (BDF), and as Fontforge source files.

Chortle-ttf-0.23.zip (True Type)
Chortle-source-0.22.zip (Source)
Chortle-bdf-0.22.zip (Bitmap)
Chortle-pfb-0.22.zip (Postscript)

I am beginning work on adding hinting information to the fonts. The first target is the main non-bold, non-italic font; I have a version with hinting for the letter "p" here; this version looks better when rendered with Microsoft Cleartype but a little worse on Linux systems without cleartype (since only the "p" has any hinting).

I also have a version of the main Chortle font with autohinting here, but the quality of autohinting isn't very good, with inconsistent X-heights.

Older releases:

Chortle-ttf-0.22.zip (True Type)