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Montserrat

The library lists Montserrat together with three more families that share a designer with it and either its name or its measurements. It is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families.

Outlines drawn from the Montserrat file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Montserrat	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	742	740
Cap height (top of H)	700	702
x-height (top of x)	526	519
Descender (foot of p)	−194	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.75	0.70
Average lowercase width	574	522
Ink coverage, a–z	33.0%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Montserrat	Added
Montserrat Alternates	static files only	2012
Montserrat Subrayada	no ascenders (capital forms on the lowercase keys); lowercase wider by 139; static files only	2012
Montserrat Underline	matching measurements	2024

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Gothic A1, Asap; just above: Archivo, Archivo Narrow; level with: Montserrat Underline

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Alexandria, Encode Sans Expanded; just above: Russo One, Duru Sans; level with: Montserrat Underline

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Weight	wght	100 to 900	545 families

Scripts5 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 2,747 glyphs and 1,312 mapped Unicode characters; 24 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, case-sensitive forms and one stylistic set.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Kode Monotaller x-height, wider M PLUS Ushorter x-height, wider Ralewayshorter x-height, narrower Quicksandshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Tourneytaller x-height, wider Lilexshorter x-height, wider IBM Plex Monoshorter x-height, wider

Rank every family against Montserrat

Same designer

Julieta Ulanovsky is also credited on Alexandria. Sol Matas is also credited on Bitter and Kadwa. Juan Pablo del Peral is credited on 7 other families in the library, from Acme (2011) to Piazzolla (2020); the closest of them in x-height and width is Alegreya SC. Jacques Le Bailly is credited on 13 other families in the library, from Pacifico (2011) to Radio Canada (2022); the closest of them in x-height and width is Encode Sans Expanded.