The same page that let’s you download Merriweather also lets you donate. Donations will be used to improve Merriweather and the Google font Directory.
You may also commission specific features to be added to the free version of Merriweather.
For example:
- If I have donations of $1,500.00 USD then I will add small caps to the regular weight and regular style of Merriweather. That’s one extra font.
- For $4,000.00 USD I will make small caps for all the weights of the upright serif design. That is small caps for Serif Light, Serif Regular, Serif Bold, and Serif Heavy. This is a total of four fonts.
- And for $6,000.00 USD I will add them to all weights of the serif and the sans serif version. That is small caps for Serif Light, Serif Regular, Serif Bold, Serif Heavy, Sans Light, Sans Regular, Sans Bold, and Sans Heavy. That is eight fonts.
This leaves out the italics for now. I suspect this fine because the use of italic small caps will be infrequent.
…Or maybe you want an extra heavy version.
Just let me know and I’ll give you a quote. We can use pay pal or we could even create a kickstarter fund!
The main thing is to let me know what you would like.
Thanks!
Hey,
I can’t seem to find any donation option on the page you’ve linked to, nor on the rest of the Google Web Fonts site for that matter. Any other suggestions?
I need to update this post because google has closed that option. If I want to continue accepting donations I will need to open a new venue for it. If you did donate, what features would you be most wanting to see added?
Thanks! My paypal account is now under the email address sorkineben@gmail.com
OK, thanks for clearing that up! As far as requests go, I think you’re on the right track
Seconded…if you give us a Paypal address or what not, I can make a very small modest donation to encourage you to continue working on the delta hinting.
Thanks! My paypal account is under the email address sorkineben@gmail.com. Whatever you can contribute is much appreciated. I have been paying for hinting classes to get this really right for the last month. It is looking very promising now. Q: I suspect that you only care about Greyscale and Cleartype rendering not necessarily black and white. But is that correct?
Using Firefox or Chrome on my desk PC, the Merriweather font looks very chunky.
With IE on my desk PC, and with any browser on any other computer I have seen, it looks ok. Any thoughts? I can send screen shots if it helps.
This is because the version of the Firefox and Chrome you have now don’t use the new rendering engine IE is using. The other reason for trouble is that Merriweather is Reaching its final stages and does not have what is called “hinting” yet. Happily Firefox and Chrome are likely to get better rendering soon and Merriweather is about to get hinting so your experience with Merriweather should improve quite a bit in the next 4-6 months.
I am expecting that the new hinting that is coming will fix this. I’ll be posting about this over the next week and showing previews.
What exactly do you mean when you say ‘hinting classes’
P.S.: Merriweather is a beauty, I will make my contribution soon congratulations!
I mean that I was learning how to use the Microsoft software VTT. Both Fontlab and VTT are publicly available tools to that allow you manually hint TrueType and TrueType flavored Opentype fonts to display well in windows. I chose to learn VTT because the software gives you a more hinting options and more options to preview the results you can expect after hinting.