This is the README for the merriweather package, version 2019-10-13. This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support for the Merriweather and MerriweatherSans families of fonts, designed by Eben Sorkin. Merriweather features a very large x height, slightly condensed letterforms, a mild diagonal stress, sturdy serifs and open forms. The Sans family closely harmonizes with the weights and styles of the serif family. There are four weights and italics for each. To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system download the file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/merriweather.tds.zip, where the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirror.ctan.org. Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree, likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map files by enabling the Map file merriweather.map. To use, add \usepackage{merriweather} to the preamble of your document. This will activate Merriweather as the main (serifed) text font and MerriweatherSans as the sans font. To activate Merriweather without MerriweatherSans, use \usepackage[rm]{merriweather} Similarly, to activate MerriweatherSans without Merriweather use \usepackage[sf]{merriweather} To use MerriweatherSans as the main text font, use \usepackage[sfdefault]{merriweather} This re-defines \familydefault, not \rmdefault. Options light, rmlight, sflight, black, rmblack, and sfblack choose the light or heavy weights instead of the regular and bold weights, respectively, for both or single families. LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option. Options scaled= or scale= may be used to scale the MerriweatherSans fonts; the serifed variants are not affected. Commands \merriweather and \merriweathersans select the Merriweather and MerriweatherSans families, respectively. Commands \merriweatherlight, \merriweatherblack, \merriweathersanslight, and \merriweathersansblack allow for localized use of light or black variants. The only figure style supported is proportional semi-oldstyle. Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1 and TS1. The original fonts are available at http://www.google.com/webfonts and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, (version 1.1); the text may be found in the doc directory. The type1 versions were created using fontforge. The support files were created using autoinst and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)