International Phonetic Alphabet
System of phonetic notation
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| June 2 2025 |
Charis SIL
Version 7 of the font released, with the name simplified to just 'Charis'.
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| September 2024 |
Noto fonts
Unicode version 16.0 was released, with Noto fonts covering 162 out of 168 defined scripts.
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| January 2024 |
Calibri
After 17 years, Calibri is replaced by Microsoft's new bespoke font, Aptos, as the default Microsoft Office font.
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| 2023 |
Calibri
Probate Judge Sandra A. Harrison of Macomb County dismissed a legal claim after discovering a business record purported to be from 13 December 2000 was actually typed in Calibri.
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| August 2023 |
Junicode
Junicode was converted to a variable font, expanding its typographic capabilities and continuing its active development.
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| July 13 2023 |
Calibri
Microsoft announced they would replace Calibri as the default Microsoft 365 font, switching to their new font called Aptos.
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| February 1 2023 |
Charis SIL
Version 6.2 of Charis SIL font released, containing over 3,800 glyphs.
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| January 2023 |
Calibri
The United States Department of State retired Times New Roman and adopted Calibri as the official font for communications and documents, citing superior readability on computer screens and better accessibility for text-to-speech and optical character recognition tools.
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| 2022 |
Linux Libertine
Stefan Peev forked the Libertinus Serif font to create the Common Serif font.
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| September 2022 |
Noto fonts
At the time of Unicode 15.0 release, Noto fonts covered over 77,000 characters, approximately half of the 149,186 characters defined in the Unicode standard.
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| 2021 |
Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet
The new extIPA symbols from the 2015 revision were added to the Unicode standard, formally integrating these specialized phonetic characters into digital typography and computing systems.
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| April 2021 |
Noto fonts
A Unicode coverage report was published showing Noto fonts covering 95.0% of Non-CJK Unicode characters, 32.7% of CJK characters, and 54.0% of all Unicode characters.
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| 2020 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
A new set of IPA charts was released with minor layout adjustments and Creative Commons icons replacing the copyright sign.
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| 2020 |
Linux Libertine
Khaled Hosny passed the role of maintainer of the Libertinus fonts to Caleb Maclennan.
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| 2019 |
Fira
Stone Zeng released Fira Math, a sans-serif font with comprehensive Unicode math support, expanding the Fira typeface family's capabilities for mathematical typesetting.
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| 2019 |
Noto fonts
IKEA adopts Noto IKEA, a customised version of Noto Sans, as its corporate typeface. This new typeface replaces Verdana and is used in pair with standard versions of Noto Sans.
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| 2018 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
A modified IPA chart was released in additional fonts, including TeX TIPA Roman developed by Rei Fukui, which was selected by the Alphabet, Charts and Fonts committee as best representing the IPA symbol set.
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| 2018 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Latest documented update to the IPA, further refining symbol representations and maintaining the system's relevance in linguistic studies.
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| 2018 |
Noto fonts
LibreOffice version 6.0 begins bundling Noto fonts with its software package.
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| April 2018 |
STIX Fonts project
The Type 1 version of the STIX Two fonts for LaTeX was released. Simultaneously, the STIX project hosting platform was migrated to GitHub at https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts/.
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| 2017 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
The Association's Alphabet, Charts and Fonts committee was established.
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| 2017 |
Calibri
Calibri became central evidence in the 'Panama Papers' case (Fontgate) in Pakistan, where a document supposedly signed in February 2006 was found to be forged because it was typed in Calibri, which was not publicly available at that time. Font inventor Lucas De Groot stated there was 'really zero chance' the document was genuine.
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| 2017 |
Calibri
Gerald McGoey, former CEO of Look Communications, filed for personal bankruptcy and produced documents purportedly signed in 1995, which were revealed to be forged as they were typed in Calibri.
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| 2016 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Three versions of a revised IPA chart dated 2015 were released online, featuring different typefaces: IPA Kiel/LS Uni, Doulos SIL, and DejaVu Sans. Some symbol shapes were slightly modified, including replacing a symbol with a version having a continuous, slanted stroke.
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| 2016 |
Linux Libertine
Khaled Hosny officially released the initial version of his font fork, renaming the project to Libertinus fonts, which included Libertinus Serif, Libertinus Sans, and Libertinus Mono.
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| December 1 2016 |
STIX Fonts project
The official STIX project website announced the release of STIX version 2.0.0, created by Ross Mills and John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks. This version was an original design loosely inspired by Times New Roman, with a higher x-height and different from the previous version that matched Nimbus Roman No. 9 L.
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| 2015 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Continuation of the IPA's development, with updates to modifiers and suprasegmental notation, reflecting ongoing linguistic research.
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| 2015 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
A major revision of the extensions for disordered speech was implemented, further refining the phonetic notation system.
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| 2015 |
Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet
The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet (extIPA) underwent a revision and expansion, adding new symbols to enhance transcription of disordered speech.
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| September 2015 |
Noto fonts
Noto font licensing changed from Apache License 2.0 to SIL Open Font License.
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| 2013 |
Calibri
Google released Carlito, a freely-licensed font metric-compatible with Calibri, as part of ChromeOS. The font is based on the open-source typeface Lato and designed to ensure correct document display and printing.
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| 2012 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
The IPA chart and its subparts were released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The Council declined the 2011 proposal for adding a new vowel symbol.
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| 2012 |
Calibri
The Turkish government charged approximately 300 people with conspiracy to commit a coup, using an incriminating document allegedly from 2003 but actually typed in Calibri, which was not available in that year.
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| 2012 |
Linux Libertine
Khaled Hosny forked the Linux Libertine font family to address the lack of a matching mathematical companion font.
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| April 2012 |
Noto fonts
Noto fonts covered all 93 scripts defined in Unicode version 6.1 at the time of its release.
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| 2011 |
The International Phonetic Alphabet
A proposal was made to add a symbol representing the open central unrounded vowel.
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| October 2010 |
Noto fonts
Unicode version 6.0 was released, with Noto fonts covering all scripts encoded up to this version, though only about 30,000 of the 74,616 CJK unified ideographs were covered.
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles History of the International Phonetic Alphabet, Charis SIL, Fira (typeface), Noto fonts, STIX Fonts project, Linux Libertine, Junicode, Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet & Calibri, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.