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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789 — the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. How vexingly quick daft zebras jump!
7 weights · italic · variable · Serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Merriweather
Measured from the real outline files, normalised to a 1.0 x-height — the numbers we compare when matching your image against the library.
x-height
Medium
0.748
stroke weight
20% of cap height
0.203
contrast
Medium
0.514
letter width
Normal
1.065
Web embed
Use Merriweather on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Merriweather:wght@300;400;500;600;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Merriweather */
body {
font-family: 'Merriweather', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Merriweather
- Category
- Serif
- Designers
- Sorkin Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- May 11, 2011
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Merriweather font
Merriweather is a serif typeface designed by Sorkin Type, first released to Google Fonts on May 2011. It ships with 7 weights · italic · variable and is licenced under the SIL Open Font License, which permits commercial use in websites, apps, documents and print without attribution or payment.
Its measured character is a medium x-height at 75% of the cap height, normal letter forms and medium stroke contrast. Those three numbers are what the font finder uses to narrow an image down to the closest matches, so you can compare Merriweather against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Merriweather is the face in a screenshot you have? Run it through the free font identifier, or browse the full library of 1,935 open-source fonts for something with a similar feel.