Montserrat fonts biography of alberta

Geometric sans-serif font

Montserrat is a geometric sans-seriftypeface designed by Argentine graphic designer Julieta Ulanovsky and released in 2011.

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It was inspired by posters, signs and painted windows from the first half of the twentieth century, seen in the historic Montserrat neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.^[1]

The project was started in 2010 by Ulanovsky^[2] and was released through the Google Fonts catalogue in 2011. Montserrat has become increasingly popular among web designers, and it is used on over 17 million websites.^[3]

Featuring a large x-height, short descenders and wide apertures, this typeface achieves high legibility even in small sizes.

Montserrat has been developed into a large family, consisting of nine weights (from Thin to Black), a set of alternate characters, a distinctive Subrayada (underlined) variant, and support for the Cyrillic character set.^[4]

According to lead designer Ulanovsky, i Montserrat - fontlibrary.org GUPA