Montserrat (Typeface)
Montserrat is an open source geometric sans serif typeface designed by Julieta Ulanovsky in 2010.[1][2] The typeface is based on 1920's-1950's lettering in the historic Monserrat neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One year later, Ulanovsky launched a Kickstarter campaign creating a typeface with "the spirit of Buenos Aires"[3]. The project's result was a perceptive homage to Ulanovsky's neighborhood.[4]
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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Classification | Geometric |
| Designer(s) | Julieta Ulanovsky (Primarily), Juan Pablo del Peral, Sol Matas, and Jacques Le Bailly |
| Commissioned by | Julieta Ulanovsky |
| Date created | 2010 |
| Date released | 2014 |
| License | SIL Open Font License |
| Design based on | 1920's-1950's signage |
| Variations | Montserrat Alternates, Montserrat Subrayada |
| Website | {{URL|example.com|optional display text}} |
Inspiration
Ulanovsky inspired Montserrat from signage all around the historic neighborhood. The inspiration came from classic lettering on street signs, posters, painted windows, and café canopies in the neighborhood. During Ulanovsky's studies in type design, she collected the letterforms and glyphs that were the most unique looking. She realized that the letterform and glyph designs were not that common back in the day. With the typeface's project, she hoped to "rescue the beauty of urban typography from the first half of the twentieth century". She curated all the characters of the neighborhood's classic lettering into a typeface that can be used globally.[4] Montserrat and Montserrat Alternates support full Latin, full Cyrillic, and Vietnamese while Montserrat Subrayada only supports basic Latin.[5][6][7]
Cyrillic Expansion
The Cyrillic expansion added 8,640 new characters for the Montserrat typeface. Matas said that the greatest challenge was the Cyrillic addition was having the classic inspiration while having a natural design. Ulanovsky and her collaborators weren't native Cyrillic readers, so the expansion was made in collaboration with two Russian typeface designers, Maria Doreuli and Alexei Vanyashin. Vanyashin's feedback to the Ulanovsky and her team's suggestion was to bring a character "closer to its historical representation” and to avoid using certain glyphs that can be completely confusing. That was something they took into consideration.[4][8]
Uses
Montserrat is one of the most popular fonts on Google Fonts and it is still gaining popularity to this day.[9] It has been featured in over 1,000,000+ websites. It has been used for user interfaces, websites, presentations, etc. Montserrat has been featured in the Focus and Pop themes on Google Slides.
Variations
Montserrat Alternates
Montserrat Alternates is a version of Montserrat with very unique alternate glyphs. Some examples of the alternate glyphs is having a single storey lowercase 'a' and a round top capital 'A', 'Z' (Lower and Caps) with a center strikethrough, Capital 'U' with a similarity of the lowercase 'u', the lowercase 'l' having a semi-serif, etc. It comes with 9 weights ranging from Thin to Black with italics (Same as the normal Montserrat). It also supports the Cyrillic scripts.[6]
Montserrat Subrayada
Montserrat Subrayada is a completely underlined and all caps version of Montserrat. "Subrayada" means underlined in Spanish. It only has 2 weights, Regular and Bold, without italics and only supports the Latin scripts.[7]
References
- ↑ "Montserrat Font Combinations & Similar Fonts · Typewolf". Typewolf. Retrieved August 21, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Montserrat in use". Fonts in Use. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ↑ "The Montserrat Typeface". Kickstarter (in español). Retrieved August 21, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Scripting Cyrillic - Library". Google Design. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- ↑ "Google Fonts". Google Fonts. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Google Fonts". Google Fonts. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Google Fonts". Google Fonts. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
- ↑ JulietaUla (August 20, 2020), JulietaUla/Montserrat, retrieved August 21, 2020
- ↑ "Google Fonts". Google Fonts. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
External links
- Montserrat on Google Fonts
- Montserrat on Font Squirrel
Category:Open-source typefaces Category:Sans-serif typefaces Category:Latin-script typefaces Category:Cyrillic typefaces Category:Geometric sans-serif typefaces Category:Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2014 Category:Digital typefaces
Improvements to the draft
Hello, recently I improved the draft of the article "Montserrat (typeface)" and also I added an infobox typeface. Would you like to transfer to the Encyclopedia article? Thanks and regards, Rodney Araujo (talk) 00:47, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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