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Merriweather

Merriweather has three variable axes; 25 other families in the library have as many or more. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families. Its regular file holds 2,384 glyphs, 3.4 times the median of the serifs (700).

Outlines drawn from the Merriweather file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Merriweather	Median of 354 serifs
Ascender (top of d)	819	747
Cap height (top of H)	743	700
x-height (top of x)	555	482
Descender (foot of p)	−242	−233
x-height ÷ cap height	0.75	0.70
Average lowercase width	559	514
Ink coverage, a–z	45.4%	41.5%

Where it sitsEvery serif family is a dot

X-height across the 336 serifs with ascenders

302600

Just below: Wellfleet, Cutive; just above: Fauna One, Glegoo

Average lowercase width across the 354 serifs

2751,028

Just below: Roboto Serif, Literata; just above: Noto Serif HK, Noto Serif JP

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 300 to 900, with a matching italic; seven of the nine standard steps fall inside that range.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Optical size	opsz	18 to 144	29 families
Width	wdth	87 to 112	99 families
Weight	wght	300 to 900	545 families

Scripts5 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,423 Unicode characters are mapped.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, slashed zero, case-sensitive forms and four stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Libre Caslon Textshorter x-height, narrower Headland Onetaller x-height, wider Wellfleetshorter x-height, wider Libre Baskervilleshorter x-height, wider Besleyshorter x-height, wider Martelshorter x-height, wider

Outside the serif class

Merriweather Sanstaller x-height, narrower Menberetaller x-height, narrower Biryanishorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Merriweather

Same designer

Sorkin Type is credited on 12 other families in the library, from Limelight (2011) to Menbere (2025); the closest of them in x-height and width is Merriweather Sans.