Monthly Archives: December 2013

Font Hinting mystery/discovery

Posted on December 26, 2013 by

Perhaps the most exciting part of the new Merriweather release ( 12/26/2013) for me is a font developer geek discovery. I seem to have found a way of passing manual hinting into the auto-hinter TTFA. TTFA is what hints 99% … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Hinting, TrueType, Windows | 3 Comments

Merriweather Serif with Cyrillic, extended Latin, and hinting has shipped to Google!

Posted on December 26, 2013 by

Merriweather version 1.5 with Cyrillic, extended Cyrillic, and extended Latin – and hinting – has shipped to Google! There may be some improvements to the italics so their weight is a bit better with the romans in the next month … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Cyrillic, Diacritics, Latin, OpenType | 43 Comments