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diff --git a/website/static/merriweather/FONTLOG.txt b/website/static/merriweather/FONTLOG.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc8f40f --- /dev/null +++ b/website/static/merriweather/FONTLOG.txt @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +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 offers a Renaissance warmth while using proportions which are space-saving. It is suitable for editorial design, news and other kinds of space sensitive typography. + +Merriweather is an evolving project and will be updated. As of now there are 8 styles: + +Regular +Light +Bold +UltraBold + +Italic +Light Italic +Bold Italic +UltraBold Italic + +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 + +Merriweather is a work in progress and will be improved upon periodically. + +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, Cyrillic, Turkish, Windows Baltic, Macintosh Character Set + +There is are 2 source files for each style: + +1. Merriweather-Style.ufo Original Source Files with + contour overlaps +2. A TTF file with overlaps removed and very limited manual hinting to be used with ttfautohint (v0.97) using the following settings -l 13 -r 13 -G 200 -x 24 -f dflt -w "" -W -p + +To contribute to the project contact Eben Sorkin at sorkineben@gmail.com + +ChangeLog + + +3 Janr 2014 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather v1.057 (new numbering scheme) +- Roman is now Hinted with TTFA 1.3 +- Refined the weights - the new roman weights are changed slightly +- Improved the upright or roman design with special attention to punctuation +- Improved the shapes and spacing of the Cyrillic with the kind support of users and other font designers +- Future work: The italic will need to be updated to match the weight of the roman and re-hinted next. +- Future work: Some effort to begin supporting Vietnamese and other users not covered yet has started. + +6 Jan 2014 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather v1.52 +- Updated copyright string in UFOs + +3 Jan 2014 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather v1.51 ( not pushed live ) +- Added support for the currency symbols won (uni20A9) and franc (uni20A3) +- Added support for typographic features requiring glyphs uni02C9, uni00AD and uni2219 to gain full Adobe Latin 3 coverage. +- Added support for Serbian when in Latin ( uni01F1/uni01C7/uni01CA/uni01C4/uni01F2/uni01C8/uni01CB/uni01C5/uni01F3/uni01C9/uni01CC/uni01C6 ) +- Added upper & lower case latin shwa uni0259, uni018F for Azerbaijani. +- Updated reference encoding to reflect these additions. + +23 December 2013 (Eben Sorkin) Merriweather v1.5 +- TTFA hinting added. +- Cyrillic coverage added including minority language support for Ukrainian, Mongolian and others. Note: no Cyrillic localizations have been made yet. +- Some additional Glyphs added including latin shwa, colonmonetary, Lira, peseta, and Turkish Lira, minute, second, Number sign with N and o, as well as the litre and estimated signs. +- Added support for a broad range of additional Latin based languages. +- Support for Romanian and Moldavian localization +- Overall adjustment in scale to make TTFA hinting effective +- Alteration of contrast in the Light weight for better rendering in Windows +- Overall improvement and refinement to the design of both upright and italic. + +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. +- 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 |