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SorkinType / Merriweather

Merriweather is a serif typeface. It is offered in Variable font format and static formats ( OTF, TTF WOFF etc).
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Renaming the latest version to avoid regressions #547

Open m4rc1e opened 2 years ago

m4rc1e commented 2 years ago

At the end of last year, I finally finished mastering the latest sources, https://github.com/SorkinType/Merriweather/pull/542. Unfortunately, we felt that the changes were so large that is justified a new name (see https://github.com/google/fonts/pull/4077). @EbenSorkin I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on this?

We've previously had this issue with Crimson Text. We decided to release the update as Crimson Pro.

m4rc1e commented 2 years ago

ping @EbenSorkin

cc @davelab6 @rosawagner

EbenSorkin commented 2 years ago

Parallel to this question, there are some fixes to Merriweather that really should go in to the the old non-flex version. Things about Cyrillic letter shapes especially but other things too. It might be worth separating things that we would call 'major bug fixes' and things we would call 'changes/regressions'.

Marc - could we meet to discuss this next week sometime? Should we wait until Dave is back? What makes best sense?

-e.

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davelab6 commented 2 years ago

Agreed, I believe subspacing the new Merriweather to its opsz-6, wdth-100, to get the full set of weights, should be a clean upgrade to the existing family. No need to wait for me, I think Marc can handle this among his other priorities in Q2.

EbenSorkin commented 2 years ago

There might be some nuance to that that Marc wants to assert. I'm open to learning about it if that's the case.

-e.

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Agreed, I believe subspacing the new Merriweather to its opsz-6, wdth-100, to get the full set of weights, should be a clean upgrade to the existing family. No need to wait for me, I think Marc can handle this among his other priorities in Q2.

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