Merriweather font not displaying lighter weights
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Hi, I’ve been using Merriweather on my <adozennothing.com> site for several months, and had used CSS to make the text display at its lightest weight (using “font-weight: 100;” OR “font-weight: lighter;”). It displayed at the lighter weight up until a few days ago. Now the text only displays at a “normal” weight, or “400,” regardless of the css command.
Any ideas what’s going on? And/or help?
Thanks!!
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Hi there, I’ve tagged this for Staff assistance.
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Other users have noted that there are currently issues with the Merriweather font in general. Regardless I’ll keep this tagged for Staff to address your specific issue.
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A glitch with liguatures (like fl and fi) was introduced in the Merriweather font a few days ago. According to the font’s developer, a fix will be pushed through to Google Fonts today (Jan. 25) in the morning, Pacific time:
https://github.com/EbenSorkin/Merriweather/issues/16
Temporary workarounds include:
1. Add the following custom CSS, if you have access to the upgrade:
html { -webkit-font-variant-ligatures: none; -moz-font-variant-ligatures: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; }OR,
2. In your Customizer’s Fonts panel, choose another font.
I’m closing this duplicate and will post any further updates in this master thread. Feel free to click “Subscribe” in the right column if you’d like to get email notification of new posts in the thread.
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Unfortunately, no. The font weight is still exactly the same.
Also, the Webpress Custom CSS won’t save the above code. I add it, click “save,” and close the “customizer” panel. When I return to “Custom CSS” in the customizer panel, the code is gone.
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Unfortunately, no. The font weight is still exactly the same.
Sorry for the confusion; I was answering a dozen threads about Merriweather quickly and was not clear. :) We would need to wait until the Merriweather changes to be brought into Google Fonts – where WordPress.com pulls the font from – to know whether your issue is fixed. That hasn’t happened yet, but in the Github issue I linked earlier, the Merriweather developer said that he plans to do the merge in the morning Pacific time, so I’d suggest checking again in a few hours. I’m not sure how much of a lag there will be after he merges the changes as that’s up to Google Fonts.
Also, the Webpress Custom CSS won’t save the above code. I add it, click “save,” and close the “customizer” panel. When I return to “Custom CSS” in the customizer panel, the code is gone.
Thanks for the heads-up. Unfortunately it turns out that our editor does not support those CSS declarations, but those were mostly relevant to the folks having ligature issues; it wouldn’t affect your weight issue.
Again, sorry for any confusion.
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