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<p>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.</p> | ||
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<p>As urban development changes this place, it will never return to its | ||
original form and loses forever the designs that are so special and unique. To | ||
draw the letters, I rely on examples of lettering in the urban space. Each | ||
selected example produces its own variants in length, width and height | ||
proportions, each adding to the Montserrat family. The old typographies and | ||
canopies are irretrievable when they are replaced.</p> | ||
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<p>There are other revivals, but those do not stay close to the originals. The | ||
letters that inspired this project have work, dedication, care, color, | ||
contrast, light and life, day and night! These are the types that make the | ||
city look so beautiful.</p> | ||
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<p>This is the Regular family, and it has two sister families so far, | ||
<a href="http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat+Alternates">Alternates</a> and | ||
<a href="http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat+Subrayada">Subrayada</a> | ||
families. Many of the letterforms are special in the Alternates family, | ||
while .</p> |