This edition of Montserrat combines all of the family's files into two lightweight OpenType Varation files. Oh, and did I mention, all of the typeface's OpenType alternates are accessible from within these files!
This version of Montserrat supports 50 different languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Zulu.
In her kickstarter for the original typeface, Julieta states, “The old posters and signs in the traditional neighborhood of Buenos Aires called Montserrat inspired me to design a typeface that rescues the beauty of urban typography from the first half of the twentieth century. The goal is to rescue what is in Montserrat and set it free, under a free, libre and open source license, the SIL Open Font License.”
This version of Montserrat is a variable font with a weight axis. What this means is that—unlike the normal edition of Montserrat that has 9 weights—this version of Montserrat has 900 different weights for the designer to choose from! Further, since all of the weights are stored in a single file this means that fluid animations of typographic weight are easy to create.
Click on the Download Montserrat VF button to download a ZIP archive containing the latest Montserrat variable fonts in TrueType-flavored OpenType format (.ttf) as well as Web Open Font Format (.woff2). Cheers!
Download Montserrat VF Google FontsMontserrat is free software, released under the SIL Open Font License. If you'd like to contribute, or you just wanna look under the hood, you can find the source files for the variable version of Montserrat here.
The type designer of Montserrat is Julieta Ulanovsky. You can find her through her Instagram @julietaula or @julietulanovsky on Twitter.
Montserrat was converted into an OpenType variations font by Valery Marier, you get in touch with her through her website marier.design or @valerymarier on Twitter.