CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather.OflLicenseForever 1.0.248.1209

CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather

A redistribution of the Merriweather font family packaged as a CodeBrix-family NuGet library for .NET 10 applications. CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather is a content-files font package for CodeBrix.Platform applications — supplying the Merriweather variable font and its static instances as build-time assets — and is equally usable as a plain content-files NuGet in any .NET 10 project that wants the Merriweather font set. Merriweather covers the Latin and Cyrillic scripts but not Greek, Armenian or Georgian, so this package also bundles three Noto Serif companion families that supply those scripts in a matching serif design. The library has no managed dependencies other than .NET, and is provided as a .NET 10 library and associated CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather.OflLicenseForever NuGet package.

CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather supports applications and assemblies that target Microsoft .NET version 10.0 and later. Microsoft .NET version 10.0 is a Long-Term Supported (LTS) version of .NET, and was released on Nov 11, 2025; and will be actively supported by Microsoft until Nov 14, 2028. Please update your C#/.NET code and projects to the latest LTS version of Microsoft .NET.

Installation

dotnet add package CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather.OflLicenseForever

Note that the NuGet package ID and the assembly name are different - there is no package named plain CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather:

• NuGet package ID: CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather.OflLicenseForever
• Assembly and content-folder name: CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather - the name that the ms-appx:///CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather/Fonts/... URIs shown below resolve against.

The assembly carries no managed API and nothing to using - everything a consumer uses is a font file path or an MSBuild property. The package has no dependencies beyond .NET itself.

CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather supports:

• The Merriweather variable font (Merriweather.ttf) covering the full weight axis (300-900), width axis and optical-size axis, used directly on every platform.
• 24 static .ttf font files covering the Light/Regular/Medium/SemiBold/Bold/ExtraBold weights in Normal and Italic styles across the Normal and SemiCondensed stretches — for platforms that resolve fonts through the static-instance manifest.
• Three companion font families that extend script coverage beyond what Merriweather itself carries:
  • Noto Serif (NotoSerif.ttf plus 12 static instances) — the Greek script, upright and italic.
  • Noto Serif Armenian (NotoSerifArmenian.ttf plus 6 static instances) — the Armenian script.
  • Noto Serif Georgian (NotoSerifGeorgian.ttf plus 6 static instances) — the Georgian script.
• A .ttf.manifest JSON file per family that maps font_style / font_weight / font_stretch triples to the matching static font file.
• A CODEBRIX-DEVELOP.json descriptor that tells CodeBrix.Develop how to wire this font into a generated application and which software-keyboard layouts the package's glyph coverage supports.
• A buildTransitive MSBuild .targets file (hooking into the CodeBrix.Platform _CodeBrixAddLibraryAssets target) that prunes the redundant static font files at build time on platforms that don't need them, while always keeping the four variable fonts available.
• The CodeBrix .uprimarker file so CodeBrix.Platform build pipelines discover the package as a UPRI-bearing font asset library.

Sample Code

Reference the font from XAML (CodeBrix.Platform app)

<TextBlock Text="Hello, world."
           FontFamily="ms-appx:///CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather/Fonts/Merriweather.ttf" />

Reference a specific static weight

<TextBlock Text="Bold sample"
           FontFamily="ms-appx:///CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather/Fonts/Merriweather-Bold.ttf" />

Set Merriweather as the default text font (CodeBrix.Platform app)

global::CodeBrix.Platform.UI.FeatureConfiguration.Font.DefaultTextFontFamily =
    "ms-appx:///CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather/Fonts/Merriweather.ttf";

Note that the font URI carries no #FamilyName fragment. CodeBrix.Platform strips such a fragment before resolving the font, and leaving it on the value assigned to DefaultTextFontFamily prevents the startup font-manifest preload from finding the manifest.

Optical sizes

The CodeBrix font-manifest schema addresses fonts by style, weight and stretch only and has no optical-size dimension, so a single optical size is shipped as static instances: 24pt, the closest available static to the variable font's own opsz default of 18. The bundled variable font retains the full optical-size axis.

Documentation

The NuGet package includes AGENT-README.txt, a complete reference and usage guide written for AI coding agents - point your agent at that file when it is writing code or XAML against this package. It covers the full font inventory, the manifest format, weight/style/stretch selection and the script-coverage rules.

Additional sample code and usage examples are available in the CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather.Tests project: https://github.com/ellisnet/CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather/tree/main/tests/CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather.Tests

License

CodeBrix.Platform.Fonts.Merriweather is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 - see the LICENSE file. The licence covers the entire package: the library code, the .targets file, the packaging wrapper, and the bundled Merriweather and Noto Serif .ttf font files alike. The same text is bundled at the repository root and inside the produced NuGet package as OFL.txt, and the package is published under the SPDX expression OFL-1.1.

Merriweather is distributed with the Reserved Font Name "Merriweather"; the bundled font files are redistributed bit-for-bit unmodified and their internal name tables are untouched.

For licensing and provenance information about the open source code included in this package, see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.