![]() Ulanovsky’s collaborator, Sol Matas, said the greatest challenge was remaining faithful to the original Argentine inspiration while creating a design that looked natural in the Cyrillic context. This year's Cyrillic expansion culminated in 8,640 new characters for Montserrat. These expansions added versatility to the original design by using clever and distinctive details Ulanovsky found in archival photographs of Buenos Aires from the 1920-1950s. ![]() Montserrat now has nine weights (from Thin to Black) in Roman and Italic, a set of alternate characters, and a distinctive Subrayada (underlined) variant. The classic elegance and international appeal of the initial design prompted waves of expansion to the Montserrat family in recent years, culminating most recently in the addition of Cyrillic characters. Monserrat also reminds people of other cities and old signs.” And maybe that's why the font has many users around the world-it's not just Buenos Aires. “The main fonts are not just shapes,” says Ulanovsky. “They define something from one moment in the history of the city. With Montserrat, Ulanovsky hoped to “rescue the beauty of urban typography from the first half of the twentieth century,” by distilling the character of the city's classic lettering into a font that could be used all over the world. But during the course of her studies in type design, as she collected and sketched the letterforms she found most fascinating, she noticed that these distinctive designs were not as common around the neighborhood as they once had been. Ulanovsky drew her inspiration from the classic lettering on street signs, posters, painted windows, and cafe canopies in her neighborhood. A year later, she launched a successful Kickstarter campaign promising a typeface with “the spirit of Buenos Aires,” and the result is a perceptive homage to the historic Montserrat neighborhood where she lives and works today. Montserrat was first designed by Julieta Ulanovsky in 2010 while she was a student in the Type Design master’s program at the University of Buenos Aires (known as CDT). Montserrat: Finding Cyrillic forms in the Modernist lettering of Buenos AiresĪmong the Cyrillic typefaces in the recent Google Fonts expansion, a notable highlight is Montserrat, a playful, geometric sans-serif that’s become increasingly popular among web designers in recent years.
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