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FONTLOG for the Merriweather font
This file provides detailed information on the Merriweather
font Software.
This information should be distributed along with the
Merriweather fonts and any derivative works.
Basic Font Information
Merriweather is a low-contrast semi-condensed-serif typeface family
designed to be readable at very small sizes. Merriweather is
traditional in feeling despite the modern shapes it has adopted for screens.
Merriweather is an evolving project and will be updated. As of now there are 5
styles: Regular, Light, Bold, and Black Roman and Italic styles.
There is also Merriweather Sans, a sans-serif version which closely
harmonizes with the weights and styles of this serif family.
http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Merriweather+Sans
Designed by Eben Sorkin, Merriweather features a very large x height,
slightly condensed letterforms, a mild diagonal stress, sturdy serifs and open
forms.
Merriweather is a work in progress and will be improved regularly. This
means you can request improvements and even fund specific features if if they
are outside of the current scope of work.
For more information and to stay updated see Eben
Sorkin's blog and Flickr and follow the Merriweather
Twitter microblog:
http://ebensorkin.wordpress.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55990250@N02/
http://twitter.com/MerriweatherFnt
Merriweather is a Unicode typeface family that supports
languages that use the Latin script and its variants, and
could be expanded to support other scripts.
More specifically, this release supports the following Unicode
ranges: Latin-1, Latin-2: Eastern Europe, Turkish,
Macintosh Character Set and Adobe Latin 3 character set.
There are four source files for each style:
1. Merriweather-Style.vfb Original Source Files with
contour overlaps
2. Merriweather-Style-OTF.sfd Merged contours and
optimized file corresponding to the OTF file
3. Merriweather-Style.otf PostScript outlines OTF-CFF font.
4. Merriweather-Style-TTF.sfd TrueType outlines with
hinting adjustments corresponding to the TTF file
To contribute to the project contact Eben Sorkin at sorkineben@gmail.com
ChangeLog
1 May 2013 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather v1.4
- Italic Light, Bold, Black added
- Hinted fonts using TTFAutohint version 0.93.8-669f
- Mastered VBF to TTF and other formats.
- Improved the design in response to additional print
and rendering tests and added glyphs to cover the entire
Adobe Latin 3 character set. ( VBF format )
- Completed first complete version of Merriweather in
Fontlab ( VBF format )
14 March 2013 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather v1.4
- Italic Regular added
26 Feb 2012 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather Sans v1.001
- Hinted font Using TTFAutohint version 0.93.8-669f
- Mastered VBF to TTF and other formats.
- Added glyphs to cover the entire Adobe Latin 3
character set. ( VBF format )
10 Feb 2012 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather Sans v1.000
- Completed first complete version of Merriweather Italic
in Fontlab ( VBF format )
29 July 2011 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather v1.3
- Altered and improved 90% of the glyphs. Some in minor ways
and other in fairly significant ways. For example:
The lc a was a small change.
The changes to the numbers corrected weight consistency issues
were more significant.
- Added glyphs to support texts originating from Windows
ANSI and Mac Roman encodings.
- Adjusted diacritics further
- This may be the last update to shapes before work
begins on the Sans. This means that VTT hinting
should be next.
22 July 2011 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather v1.287
- Adusted glyph diacritics to make them work with MS Word.
- Mastered Font from Fontlab to TTF
Acknowledgements
If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N),
email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D).
This list is in alphabetical order.
N: Eben Sorkin
E: sorkineben@gmail.com
W: www.sorkintype.com
D: Designer and Mastering