Montserrat fonts biography of albert

Geometric sans-serif font

Montserrat is a geometric sans-seriftypeface designed by Argentine graphic designer Julieta Ulanovsky and released in It was inspired by posters, signs and painted windows from the first half of the twentieth century, seen in the historic Montserrat neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.^[1]

The project was started in by Ulanovsky^[2] and was released through the Google Fonts catalogue in Montserrat has become increasingly popular among web designers, and it is used on over 17 million websites.^[3]

Featuring a large x-height, short descenders and wide apertures, this typeface achieves high legibility even in small sizes.

Montserrat has been developed into a large family, consisting of nine weights (from Thin to Black), a set of alternate characters, a distinctive Subrayada (underlined) variant, and support for the Cyrillic character set.^[4]

According to lead designer Ulanovsky, it is a functional