Montserrat

Try Montserrat

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Montserrat Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Montserrat ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Montserrat Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Montserrat Regular Italic
• Medium 500Montserrat Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Montserrat SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Montserrat Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Montserrat ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Montserrat Black Black Italic

Montserrat is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Montserrat

Montserrat is a geometric sans serif that Julieta Ulanovsky began in order to record the lettering on old posters and signs in the Montserrat neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, urban typography from the first half of the twentieth century that redevelopment was erasing. In the specimen the letters are wide and round, with a large x-height, a two-storey a, and a single-storey g. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 100 to 900; nine weights are named, Thin to Black, each with an italic, for 18 styles. The fonts hold 2,721 glyphs across Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. In 2017 Jacques Le Bailly redrew the family and the weights were rebalanced so that Regular became lighter and more suitable for longer text; Cyrillic followed the same year. Sister families named Alternates and Subrayada exist. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Montserrat works

Website headlines

Wide, round capitals set in Bold or Black fill a hero banner with few words.

Brand identities

Nine weights with italics give one family enough range for a logo, headings, text and small print.

Presentation slides

The large x-height keeps bullet text legible from the back of a room.

Interfaces in Latin and Cyrillic

Cyrillic was developed inside the project in 2017, so Russian and Ukrainian screens match the Latin ones.

Signage and wayfinding

The design descends from street signs and posters, and its open, wide shapes read at a distance.

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
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Montserrat

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 Montserrat 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: "Montserrat";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Montserrat-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Montserrat";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Montserrat-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Montserrat", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Montserrat 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=Montserrat:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Wide letters

Montserrat takes more horizontal space than a typical text sans; long headlines may need a smaller size.

Default instance is Thin

The variable files open at weight 100, so set the weight explicitly.

Regular was lightened in 2017

The redraw adjusted all weights to make Regular better for longer texts; older copies of the fonts are darker.

FAQs

Collections with Montserrat

• Fonts for logos and wordmarks

  Geometric, rounded, wide and classical open-license typefaces with enough character to carry a name on their own.

• Geometric sans-serif fonts

  Sans-serif families built on circles, straight lines and even strokes, from 1920s-inspired designs to current brand typefaces.

• Fonts drawn from street signs and painted lettering

  Typefaces based on hand-painted shop signs, truck art, railway boards and protest placards from cities around the world.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts