license: OFL
category: sans-serif
subsets: menu,latin

family: Montserrat

designer: Julieta Ulanovsky

approved: true
description: <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> \
  <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> \
  <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>

font.Montserrat-Regular.ttf.style: normal

font.Montserrat-Regular.ttf.weight: 400

# cd ~/src/font-optimizer; \
# ./subset.pl -v --licensesubst="SIL OFL 1.1" \
#  --exclude="c2sc,smcp,ordn,sups,sinf,subs,dlig,frac" \
#  --chars="Montserrat" \
# ~/googlefontdirectory/montserrat/Montserrat-Regular.{ttf,menu}; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/montserrat/; \
# ~/googlefontdirectory/tools/chars/showchars.py \
#  Montserrat-Regular.menu; \

# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/montserrat/; \
# rm *.nam *.log *.latin *.latin-ext *.cyrillic+latin *.cyrillic-ext+latin *.greek+latin *.greek-ext+latin; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/; \
# for family in montserrat; do \
#    for font in `ls -1 $family/*ttf | cut -d. -f1`; do \
#        for subset in \
#            latin latin-ext; do \
#            echo subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip --namelist --script \
#                --subset=$subset $font.ttf $font.$subset; \
#            python tools/subset/subset.py --null --nmr --roundtrip \
#                --namelist --script --subset=$subset \
#                $font.ttf $font.$subset > $font.$subset.log; \
#        done; \
#    done; \
# done; \
# cd ~/googlefontdirectory/montserrat/; \

