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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!
6 weights · italic · variable · Sans-serif
Download at Google Fonts →Measured shape
The proportions of Merriweather Sans
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
0.750
stroke weight
22% of cap height
0.222
contrast
Medium
0.310
letter width
Normal
1.042
Web embed
Use Merriweather Sans on your site
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Merriweather+Sans:wght@300;400;500;600;ital@1&display=swap');
/* Merriweather Sans */
body {
font-family: 'Merriweather Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
} Similar typefaces
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Details
- Family
- Merriweather Sans
- Category
- Sans-serif
- Designers
- Sorkin Type
- Added to Google Fonts
- March 6, 2013
- Licence
- Open source · free for commercial use
- Scripts
- cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
About the Merriweather Sans font
Merriweather Sans is a sans-serif typeface designed by Sorkin Type, first released to Google Fonts on March 2013. It ships with 6 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 Sans against the rest of the library by shape rather than by name.
Want to check whether Merriweather Sans 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.