Merriweather Sans font

Extended information

Merriweather Sans is a low-contrast semi-condensed sans-serif text typeface family designed to be pleasant to read at very small sizes. Merriweather Sans is traditional in feeling despite the modern shapes it has adopted for screens.

Merriweather Sans is an evolving project and will be updated. As of now there are 8 styles: Light, Regular, Bold, and ExtraBold weights in Roman and Italic styles.

There is also Merriweather, a serif version which closely harmonizes with the weights and styles of this sans-serif family.

Designed by Eben Sorkin, Merriweather Sans features a large x height, slightly condensed letterforms, a mild diagonal stress and open forms.

Merriweather Sans 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 stream, and the MerriweatherFnt Twitter microblog.

Updated in June 2013 with italic styles.

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FONTLOG for the Merriweather Sans font

This file provides detailed information on
Merriweather Sans Font Software. This information should be
distributed along with the Merriweather Sans font and any
derivative works.

Basic Font Information

Merriweather Sans is a low-contrast semi-condensed sans-serif typeface family
designed to be readable at very small sizes. Merriweather Sans is
traditional in feeling despite the modern shapes it has adopted for screens.
It is a companion to the serif typeface family Merriweather.

Merriweather Sans 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. MerriweatherSans-Style.vfb Original Source Files with
contour overlaps

2. MerriweatherSans-Style-otf.sfd Merged contours and
optimized file corresponding to the OTF file

3. MerriweatherSans-Style-ttf.sfd TrueType outlines with
hinting adjustments corresponding to the TTF file

4. MerriweatherSans-Style.otf PostScript outlines OTF-CFF font.

To contribute to the project contact Eben Sorkin at [email protected]

ChangeLog


30 April 2013 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather Sans v1.003
- Hinted font Using TTFAutohint version 0.93.8-669f
- Mastered VBF to TTF and other formats.
- Completed first complete version of
Merriweather Sans Italics in Fontlab ( VBF format )

1 Mar 2013 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather Sans v1.003
- Hinted font 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 )

26 Feb 2013 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather Sans v1.002
- Hinted font Using TTFAutohint version 0.93
- Mastered VBF to TTF and other formats.
- Revised spacing on the lightest and boldest masters
again and improved the design in response to additional
print amd rendering tests. ( VBF format )

15 Feb 2013 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather Sans v1.001
- Revised spacing on the lightest and boldest masters ( VBF format )

10 Feb 2013 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather Sans v1.000
- Completed first complete version of Merriweather Sans in Fontlab ( VBF format )

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: [email protected]
W: www.sorkintype.com
D: Designer and Mastering

Copyright (c) 2013, Sorkin Type Co (www.sorkintype.com) with Reserved Font Name 'Merriweather'

Merriweather is a trademark of Sorkin Type Co.

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