Montez

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Montez Regular

About Montez

Montez is a script typeface inspired by the lettering of 1960s advertisements for beauty products. The specimen shows a nearly upright brush hand: lowercase letters are small and round and link to one another with short strokes, while the capitals are tall and narrow and begin with a large loop or hook, so that the A resembles an oversized lowercase a. Strokes move from thin to moderately thick, and the z and g finish in curled descenders. The official notes place the face in display work and recommend medium to large sizes for readability. The family has one Regular style with 372 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended, and it is not a variable font. Montez is credited to Astigmatic; the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky. It is published under the Apache License 2.0.

Where Montez works

Cosmetics and salon branding

The design borrows from 1960s beauty advertising, so a product or salon name in Montez carries that period flavour.

Retro packaging

Looped capitals and a linked lowercase give a short product name the look of mid-century hand lettering.

Headlines with a flourish

A few words at a large size show the sweep of the capitals, the display use the official notes describe.

Names in Central European languages

The Latin Extended set includes letters for Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish, so names keep their accents.

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
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Montez

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

body {
  font-family: "Montez", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Montez 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=Montez&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Apache License, not OFL

Montez is distributed under the Apache License 2.0, so redistributed copies carry the license text and the copyright notices.

One style

There is a single Regular style, with no bold.

Capitals are drawn as lowercase-like forms

Several capitals in the specimen, such as A, M and N, are enlarged looped shapes, which can be misread out of context.

FAQs

Collections with Montez

• Retro script fonts with a mid-century feel

  Connected brush and monoline scripts in the manner of 1930s to 1960s advertising, film titles, painted signs and record sleeves.

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