Use Merriweather in 30 seconds!
Use Merriweather in 30 seconds! Add this as the first element in the <head> of your HTML: <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Merriweather' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> Then add Merriweather to your CSS font stacks like any other font, for example: h1 { font-family: 'Merriweather', Georgia, serif; }Merriweather on Flickr
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- Merriweather Serif Italics are live now on Google Fonts. google.com/fonts/specimen… 1 day ago
- The Sans Serif italics have shipped to Google. wp.me/pf5po-3Z 2 weeks ago
- Were you thinking of submitting a talk proposal to ATypI? Get it in today!! 3 weeks ago
- I wish I was going to IStype this year. It looks awesome! June 13-16 in Istanbul, Turkey. 3 weeks ago
- @mnmalist I see now. Yes, you will see support for these languages sometime in the next month. 1 month ago
Author Archives: Merriweather
Better rendering, expanded language coverage – and other notes.
Yet a new and also a final version of the roman in the 4 weights is coming. This version takes advantage of the last 6 months of research and experience testing rendering in the large group Google web fonts that … Continue reading
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The updated serifed roman has been added to Google web fonts
The updated serifed roman has been added to Google web fonts. This version renders better than the previous one did and has many fixes. A final update with hinting for windows along with a sans serif Merriweather is what is … Continue reading
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Got any requests?
If you have any requests for changes in the Merriweather get ‘em in quick because the new version (1.3) is almost done. When it is I will post a guide to what is new & improved or simply different.
Missing weights in IE
There is also a problem that the lightest and heaviest weights do not render in IE even in the latest version on Windows 7. This isn’t a problem with the fonts per se. Not at all – I know this … Continue reading
A new edition is coming with a raft of improvements
The next edition will contain: • even more glyphs than before • altered diacritics to solve for a problem in MS Word on Windows • letter shape and spacing refinements and hopefully a solution for a problem that the Regular … Continue reading
New weights!
There are new weights of Merriweather at Google Web fonts! http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Merriweather&subset=latin#variants I expect to update what is there again fairly soon and to add additional hinting. Work on the sans serif has also begun.
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About the delay and what is coming next.
I promised VTT hinted Merriweather some time ago now. I need to explain why you don’t have them, what is happening now, and what to expect next. The primary reason for the delay was the formation of a new company … Continue reading
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New fonts coming soon!
A new edition of Merriweather is coming in the form of 3 fonts. There will be a new improved Regular, a Light, and a Bold. The Regular and the Light are alpha releases which I don’t expect to revise. The … Continue reading
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An update the the font is coming soon!
An update to the font is coming soon! There will also be a new post about how the next version of Merriweather is different ( and better! ) and how it looks in a variety of browsers and applications. I … Continue reading
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Why and how I am making Merriweather
When I proposed the design of Merriweather to Google it was with the goal of creating a workhorse text typeface for the web. I wanted to make something as legible and pleasant to read as possible which meant adapting the … Continue reading
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