Merriweather

Serif transitional by Sorkin Type #23 on Google Fonts
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About Merriweather

Sorkin Type a conçu cette police d'empattement spécifiquement pour la lisibilité sur écran, avec une grande hauteur d'x, une légère condensation et des valeurs d'espacement généreuses pour les longues sessions de lecture. Le fort contraste entre pleins et déliés la distingue des polices serif plus neutres, lui conférant une identité distincte adaptée aux blogs, aux journaux en ligne et aux publications numériques. Elle couvre le latin étendu et le cyrillique.

Character Map

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NnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
0123456789
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Weight Waterfall (7)

300 Light
400 Regular
500 Medium
600 SemiBold
700 Bold
800 ExtraBold
900 Black

How to Use

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Merriweather:wght@300;500;600;700;800;900;400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Merriweather:wght@300;500;600;700;800;900;400&display=swap');
font-family: 'Merriweather', serif;
brew install --cask font-merriweather

Details

Category
Serif
Style
transitional
Weights
7
Italic
✓
Coréen
✗
Designer
Sorkin Type
License
OFL
Version
Popularity
#23
Downloads
19

License Usage

Web useAllowed
PrintAllowed
Video / BroadcastAllowed
PackagingAllowed
App embeddingAllowed
Brand / LogoAllowed
ModificationAllowed

OFL — Free for personal & commercial use

Language Support

cyrillic cyrillic-ext latin latin-ext vietnamese

Best For

body-text blog reading

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Typography Concepts

  • Serif

    A small decorative stroke added to the end of a letter's main strokes. Serif fonts (like Times New Roman) have these; sans-serif fonts don't.

  • Leading

    The vertical distance between lines of text, measured from baseline to baseline. Named after lead strips used in letterpress printing.

  • Measure

    The length of a line of text, typically 45–75 characters for optimal readability. Too long or too short reduces reading comfort.

  • Responsive Typography

    Typography that adapts to different screen sizes — using media queries, viewport units, or CSS clamp() for fluid scaling.

  • Line Height

    The CSS property controlling the distance between lines of text. Typically set to 1.5 or 150% for body text readability.

  • Readability

    How comfortably extended text can be read in longer passages — affected by font choice, size, line-height, measure, and color contrast.

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