The old posters and signs inside the traditional Montserrat neighborhood of Buenos Aires inspired Julieta Ulanovsky to style this typeface and rescue the beauty of urban typography that emerged within the 1st half of your twentieth century. As urban improvement modifications that place, it will never ever return to its original form and loses forever the styles which might be so particular and exclusive. The letters that inspired this project have operate, dedication, care, colour, contrast, light and life, day and night! These are the kinds that make the city appear so beautiful. The Montserrat Project began together with the thought to rescue what is in Montserrat and set it totally free under a libre license, the SIL Open Font License.
This can be the normal household, and it has two sister families so far, Alternates and Subrayada. Quite a few with the letterforms are unique in the Alternates loved ones, even though ‘Subrayada’ implies ‘Underlined’ in Spanish and celebrates a particular style of underline which is integrated into the letterforms located in the Montserrat neighborhood.
Updated November 2017: The family was redrawn by Jacques Le Bailly at Baron von Fonthausen more than the summer time, and the full set of weights have been adjusted to make the Normal lighter and far better for use in longer texts. In fall, Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, and Juan Pablo del Peral, led the development of Cyrillic help, with consultation with Carolina Giovagnoli, Maria Doreuli, and Alexei Vanyashin.
The Montserrat project is led by Julieta Ulanovsky, a form designer based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
