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.
+ +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.
+ +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.
+ +This is the Regular family, and it has two sister families so far, +Alternates and +Subrayada +families. Many of the letterforms are special in the Alternates family, +while .