FontsMontserrat
Julieta Ulanovsky
SIL Open Font License, 1.1The old posters and signs in the traditional neighborhood of Buenos Aires called Montserrat inspired me to design a typeface that rescues the beauty of urban typography from the first half of the twentieth century. The goal is to rescue what is in Montserrat and set it free, under a free, libre and open source license, the SIL Open Font License.
As urban development changes this place, it will never return to its original form and loses forever the designs that are so special and unique. To draw the letters, I rely on examples of lettering in the urban space. Each selected example produces its own variants in length, width and height proportions, each adding to the Montserrat family. The old typographies and canopies are irretrievable when they are replaced.
There are other revivals, but those do not stay close to the originals. The letters that inspired this project have work, dedication, care, color, contrast, light and life, day and night! These are the types that make the city look so beautiful.
This is the Regular family, and it has two sister families so far, Alternates and Subrayada families. Many of the letterforms are special in the Alternates family, while .
Updated in September 2012.
One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.
Font views in the last week
1,663,484,229This is the total number of times Montserrat was served by the Google Font API over the last week.
Usage by country
This is an overview of the geographical distribution of the requests for Montserrat.
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This paragraph text uses Open Sans, which is frequently spotted on the web with Montserrat. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
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This paragraph text uses Montserrat, which is frequently spotted on the web with Raleway. Try them out together on your website!
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This paragraph text uses Montserrat, which is frequently spotted on the web with Source Sans Pro. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Source Sans Pro, which is frequently spotted on the web with Montserrat. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
Ubuntu
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Montserrat
The header text above uses Ubuntu, and this body text uses Montserrat. Try these fonts out together on your website - experiment with different sizes styles and weights. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!
This paragraph text uses Montserrat, which is frequently spotted on the web with Merriweather. Try them out together on your website!
This paragraph text uses Merriweather, which is frequently spotted on the web with Montserrat. Harmonizing different fonts together can make your website beautiful!