Category Archives: Announcement

Get your Merriweather bugs fixed!

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Merriweather

If you have a bug that you want fixed this is an ideal time to report it but it would be best if you tried using the new version to see if it is already fixed! A very large collection … Continue reading →

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The updated free Merriweather is finally available from Font Squirrel

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Merriweather

The updated Merriweather Serif is available to download from Font Squirrel. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/merriweather It hashas much improved screen rendering and support for Cyrillic; better Latin language support for Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Azerbaijani and many others that had been missing before. … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Cyrillic, Font, Hinting, Rendering, Serif, TTFA, Update | 41 Comments

Merriweather ST is coming

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Merriweather

After discussing the possibility that commercially licensable version of Merriweather might be in technical conflict with the Google version we agreed that this kind of edition of Merriweather would need to be re-named. I have decided the new name will … Continue reading →

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Font Hinting mystery/discovery

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Merriweather

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

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

Merriweather Italic is live

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Merriweather

The italics for the serif version of Merriweather are live! http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Merriweather

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Merriweather Italic has shipped to Google

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Merriweather

Merriweather Italic has shipped to Google. It supports a wide range of languages and is hinted with TTFA for better legibility on Windows and in FreeType. This edition comes in 4 weights: light, regular, bold and heavy. A revised version … Continue reading →

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New fonts coming soon!

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Merriweather

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!

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Merriweather

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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Big changes!

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Merriweather

There have been some big changes for Merriweather in the the last week! First, Merriweather’s financial sponsor (Google) have asked me make a sans serif companion to the serif family already underway. They also want to increase the number of … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Font, Sans Serif, Serif, Type, Typography, Update | 4 Comments