Montaga

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Montaga Regular

About Montaga

Montaga is an old-style serif typeface whose model is Venetian calligraphy. Its defining feature is the steep tilt of the stress: in the specimen the thin parts of o, e and c sit well off the vertical, as they would with a broad pen held at an angle. Capitals are narrow and tall, the lowercase is small in relation to them with long ascenders, and the Q ends in a long sweeping tail. The ampersand keeps the shape of the letters e and t. Montaga has a single Regular style; the official description calls it a work in progress with only that style so far. The 236 glyphs cover the basic Latin set, enough for English, Spanish, German, Italian and the Nordic languages. Alejandra Rodriguez designed it, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Montaga works

Book and chapter titles

Narrow capitals and long ascenders give a title page a calligraphic, Renaissance-book character.

Pull quotes

The tilted stress shows clearly at quote size, where the thick and thin parts of each curve can be seen.

Wine, olive oil and stationery labels

The Venetian pen model suits labels that refer to craft or tradition, set in a line or two.

Short passages in Western European languages

The 236 glyphs include the accents for Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and the Nordic languages.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Montaga

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Montaga on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Montaga";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Montaga-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Montaga", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Montaga with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montaga&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular only

Montaga has one style. There is no italic and no bold, so emphasis within a text needs another device.

Western Latin coverage

Only the basic Latin subset is present. Turkish letters such as ş and ğ and Central European letters such as ě and ő are absent.

French lacks the rare capital Ÿ

French is covered apart from the rarely used capital Ÿ.

Described as unfinished

The official description presents Montaga as a design still being developed, with Regular as the only style released.

FAQs

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