# Montaga font

> An old-style serif with steeply tilted stress and slender capitals, modelled on Venetian calligraphy, in one Regular style.

Montaga is an old-style serif typeface by Alejandra Rodriguez, inspired by Venetian calligraphy and marked by a strongly tilted stress axis. Montaga comes in one Regular style with 236 glyphs covering Western European languages. Montaga is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits titles, pull quotes and short editorial passages.

## Facts

- Classification: [Serif](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/serif)
- Designed by: Alejandra Rodriguez
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 236
- Character sets: latin
- Last updated: 2025-09-05
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montaga
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/montaga
- Tagged for: Headlines, Editorial, Elegant

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2011, Alejandra Rodriguez (ale_guez@yahoo.com.ar http://twitter.com/ale_guez), with Reserved Font Name Montaga.

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Montaga free for commercial use?

Yes. Montaga is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license and may not use the reserved name Montaga without permission.

### Who designed Montaga?

Montaga was designed by Alejandra Rodriguez, who is named in both the name table and the copyright notice.

### How many weights does Montaga have?

Montaga has one weight, Regular 400. No italic or bold has been released.

### What kind of serif is Montaga?

Montaga is an old-style serif based on Venetian calligraphy, with a steeply inclined stress and slender capitals.

### Which languages does Montaga support?

Montaga includes the letters needed for English, French (except the rare capital Ÿ), German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan and the Nordic languages. Turkish and Central European alphabets are not complete.

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