Open licence · Serif
Merriweather
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Merriweather webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Merriweather.
Measured character
Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.
Fonts similar to Merriweather, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Merriweather, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Noto Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Noto Serif.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Domine webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Domine.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Koh Santepheap webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Koh Santepheap.
These are the first 3 of 746 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →Merriweather as a free alternative to
Merriweather is suggested on 18 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.
- Cambria commonly substituted
- Century Schoolbook commonly substituted
- Exchange commonly substituted
- Georgia commonly substituted
- Lava commonly substituted
- Mercury Text commonly substituted
- New Century Schoolbook LT commonly substituted
- Abril same classification
- Darby Serif same classification
- Fedra Serif same classification
- FF Meta Serif same classification
- Freight Micro same classification
- Greta Text same classification
- Karmina same classification
- Portada same classification
- Publico same classification
- Suisse Works same classification
- TheSerif same classification
In the app
Search the whole open catalogue by name, category and measured character, preview every result in your own words, and save it to a Board. Open the app — the shelf, search and the first three results of any search are free.